Dos and Don'ts of Working with a Model

For this assignment, I took pictures of my little sister, Katie.


DON'T chop off the head in a full body shot:

DO chop off the head in a close up:

DON'T crop below the knees:

DO crop above the knees:

DON'T crop below the elbows:

DO crop above the elbows:

DON'T crop too close to the eyebrows:

DO crop away from the eyebrows:

DON'T cut off the ears:

DO keep the ears in the frame:

DON'T shoot up the nose:

DO angle the head downwards:

DON'T turn sideways so the arm disappears:

DO turn so that both arms are in the frame:

DON'T always shoot at face level:

DO get higher or stand on something for an interesting angle:

Picture into Words

I took a picture of Judy Garland as Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz and put it into a picture made of words. I used words like "Judy", "Kansas","Oz", "Toto", and "Ruby Slippers".


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Flower Pattern 2

Here is amore complicated version of the flower pattern:

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Flower Pattern 1

Here is my first flower pattern;

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Cut-Up:

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Flower Brush

I turned a picture of a (fake) flower into a brush:

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Picture into Cartoon

I turned a picture into a cartoon:

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Star Diffusion

This is the Star Diffusion tutorial I did:

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After (without colour)

After (with colour)

Metal Texture

Here is a quick Metal Texture tutorial I did.

5 Photoshop Actions

Here are the 5 photoshop actions I chose to try:

1. Vintage Photo

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2. Polaroid


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3. Old Photo


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4. Pink-ish Tint

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5. HDR

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Pressed Leather

Here is my pressed leather assignment:

High Angle, Low Angle, and Dutch Tilt

High Angle:

Low Angle:

Dutch Tilt: