Jada Goodwin - Extended Seeing Recipe

For this shot, I used the default panorama shooting mode on my smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S4. He picture is taken within my cubicle at work. I felt the shot would be interesting to capture because it followed the theme of extended seeing. In order to capture, I sat a few feet back from my desk in a chair and slowly turned almost a full 360 degrees. Since the cubicle space is square, some unique angles were able to be produced. The bright artificial light in the office created a bright high contrast photo. No additional alterations were done on this photo afterwards.

Device: Samsung Galaxy S4

Operating System: Android, version 4.3

Apps Used: N/A

Jada Goodwin - Color Passion Recipe

I was able to capture this unique scene at 6.30 in the morning. The previous night it rained which created a very mysterious fog in the morning. I was actually in my car, exiting my apartment complex when scene of the park across the street caught my eye. To capture the photo I rolled down my window and took a few quick snaps of the entire setting. Much of the tone and eerie feeling within the picture is natural.

Later in the day I reviewed the shots I’d captured. As you can see below, originally I had a much larger span of the scene but I decided to crop the image in order to focus specifically on the tree and intense mist by it. I felt that by limiting the view of the audience, the emotion was enhanced.

I then moved to the Google+ app to intensive the tone within the picture. By enhancing the underlining blue tone it created a very monochromatic picture with also had some great contrast within it.

Original Photo

Device: Samsung Galaxy S4

Operating System: Android, version 4.3

Apps Used: Google + Photos

Sean Rogers Crit 3

For this photo, I used the panorama shooting mode on the camera app of my iPhone 5 iOS7. I obviously shot the panorama vertically rather than the typical horizontal shot. I started at my feet and slowly raised the camera well past the subject's head. I did this to create a larger sense of distance in the shot. Extending the shot higher than the subject's head also allowed for the interesting curve like effect on the dock.

Kelsey Kondraski Crit 3: Extended Sight

I used an iPhone 4 to take these photographs. It runs on iOS7. I took the pictures with my regular iPhone camera. I tweaked them in apps that I downloaded for free.  I used Photo Editor by Aviary which was version 3.2.0. I also used Camera Awesome version 1.1.9.  I used Microsoft Photosynth version 1.6.2 and an app called Panorama version 1.3

                There were several techniques that I used in this critique. I used a lot of photo layering. I liked taking pictures of things and telling a story with them. For example, the red coffee mug. The mug sits on the table and with each ripple it gets closer to the hand holding it. I did this with a few other photos. I also used dark lighting in a lot of my photos but made sure there were bright colors to contrast with it. I took a lot of close up shots to make the viewer look longer to try to figure out what exactly it is they are looking at.

                My strategy included shooting a lot of things that I thought would make the viewer look twice.  I wanted something weird and abnormal. The leg photo is shot to show something that the normal hum eye wouldn’t see. It looks like the legs are going in odd directions. It also looks like there are 4 legs and not 2.  I mentioned before I used bright colors contrasted against dark and dull colors to draw the eyes to my main subjects in the photo. For example, the red coffee mug and blue jeans with white and pink socks.

                My recipe starts out with finding something that is bright in color and a place that is dull or dark for a background. Then I use my Panorama app to take one photo. I move the subject to another position and I then move the camera slightly over and take a few more photos. I repeat this three or four times. This gives it the ripple effect that I wanted. It also can layer the photos and overlap them. This is how I created my leg photo and coffee mug shot.

Rebecca Striplet- Crit 2- Recipe

Device: Iphone 5s
Operating System: ios 7.1

Techniques: I used my iPhone with the piclay app. I intended to capture a photograph of my sister walking away. I asked her to stand in a certain spot, and then asked her to walk away from me. The way that piclay works it allows you to take both of the pictures and then it overlays them. It merges the photograph into one. Another option on the app is the visibility of the objects. I choose to fade the first shot of her walking away so that it can look like a ghost of herself is following her. 

Strategies: The strategies that I used is visual conception. I knew how I wanted the photograph to come out and asked the actors to play them out.  I also chose to take the photograph in a store because stores are distracting. They have many distractions at once. I wanted so that even with all the distractions, your eyes will still be drawn to the subject in the middle.

Recipe: The recipe is iPhone, and piclay app.

Laura Prince Crit 3

For this photo I just used the panorama option on my iPhone 5C iOS 7.0.4 version. I took the picture by holding my phone horizontally and standing under the wires and taking the panorama above my head. By using the telephone wire as my subject I wanted to make the photo seem as long as possible. I saw the telephone wire as I was walking in North Philly and it struck me as something to try to take a panorama of, and it was!

Crit3: Footsteps

I shot my photos using an iPhone 4s with iOS 7.0.4. These two photos above were edited using preset filters that come with the iPhone 4s iOS 7.0.4 program. The top phone was also edited using the app Snapseed 1.6.1.

When I started shooting my extended viewing photos for this assignment, I instantly was drawn to the abilities of panorama shots. I liked how I could portray a certain environment and feel with these photographs by taking a small sliver of the entire scene. In the previous assignments, taking pictures from these views and angles would not have been as successful. If you try and break these panoramas up into pieces they instantly loose their appeal.

Panoramic shots gave me the ability to show everyday objects or scenes that we walk by in a new light. I tried to find unique angles and  play with distortions of straight lines. For example, in the top photo, the street appears very pointed and rounded despite being a regular looking block in Philadelphia. In the second photo, I could make a very static bridge appear to bend and move. Panoramas gave me the ability to manipulate the actual appearance of my subjects without having to edit with the way that I moved the camera. I really enjoyed this more organic and natural process of photography.

Time of day and weather conditions help bring a lot of personality and emotion to my photos. In the top photo I shot in the evening when it was cloudy, which helped capture the isolated emotion that I was trying to achieve. In the bottom photo, the sun manipulated the shadows in a way that created a lot of depth and gave the photo a more whimsical and light vibe.

In both photos I wanted to create an entire scene that captured and drew in the viewer. I titled this blog "Footsteps" because I want the viewer to feel as if they are in my footsteps looking at my perspective of Philadelphia. I want the viewer to feel an emotion and be able to transport into my footsteps into the scene. Through my photography I hope to invite people to have their own experiences and create their own opinions of my scenes.

For both photos above, I applied the "transfer" filter from the edit option directly on the IPhone 4s with iOS 7.0.4. This helps give my photos a warm/brown tone.
For the bottom photo I also adjusted the contrast and shadows to about  +20.

While browsing the internet I found the photographer Michael Penn, who is actually a black and white photographer in Philadelphia. Everyone should definitely check out his work! He sees lots of things in a very unique way and creates beauty out of very simple subjects. Plus it's also fun to see sites we know and love in a new eye! I am unable to insert his photos directly into this blog, but here is a link so you can look around! http://www.michaelpennphotography.com/PhiladelphiaCityscape.html

Alex Sikora Crit3 Recipe

I used My iPhone5 running the 7.0.4 OS (updated)
On my iPhone camera i shot using the pano setting.
After the photos were taken I uploaded them into the recommended VSCO CAM app. (v2.1.5) Filter F1.

My strategy here was to combine motion with pano's.  It became a little obsessive at times the amount of photos i would shoot over and over specifically focusing on one object.  Here I was on a train commuting to school and sat by the window.  When the train was moving at top speed I started shooting panos and noticed a glitchy look and feel to the photo.  The train isn't the smoothest either and some of the bumps on the ride added to the photo.

The warped feel of the photo was experimental but intended and i was really happy with how it turned out.  After i imported the photo onto my computer i processed it in photoshop, adjusting the contrast to 100.

Janelle Roedan | Crit 3 | POW #15

Janelle Roedan | Crit. 3 | POW #15|

For this photograph, I used my Iphone 4S - IOS 7 version. I also used the standard camera that comes already installed with the phone. The camera has different features that you can choose from and for the photo I used the panoramic option.  For some of the other photographs I used a slow shutter application that I downloaded from the Apple store. Most of my photos have a slight mysterious look and I like how in some, it looks like there is a ghost because of the effects from the slow shutter camera.

Kristi Flesher / Extended Seeing Recipe

EXTENDED SEEING

iPhone5

iOS 7.1

For this past topic I used multiple applications in order to get the desired outcome that you see above. I started taking photos in a slower shutter/long exposure app called Long Exposure version 1.0. I was shooting at shutter speeds of 2 and 4 and I tried to keep the camera as still as possible because my subject was doing most of the moving. I then took two of the photos and overlaid them in an application called InstaBlender version 1.1 with the hard light feature. InstaBlender makes all of it photos square like in Instagram and I was not really liking that so I then in the normal iPhone editing features cropped the image. 

When taking this shot I knew I was only going to reveal some of my subject. I wanted to play around with an overarching theme of parts of a whole to add mystery and make my photos interesting. I also knew that when using slow shutter images I wanted to illustrate a fair amount of feeling through color to emphasize movement in the outcome. 

Sam Spellman- Crit 3: Extended Seeing Recipe

Sam Spellman- Crit 3 "Lucky 13"

I used an IPhone 4s to take my pictures and it runs on the IOS6 version because I refuse to update it to IOS7.  I took this photo with the standard IPhone camera with the panoramic option and then edited it using some apps that I downloaded in the app store.  For this particular photo I used the FX Photo Studio app version 5.1 just to brighten up some of the colors a little bit.  

For some of the other pictures in my collection I used a camera app that had a slow shutter speed option called Slow Shutter Speed Camera Free.  I liked how it made many of the pictures look and the way that they turned out with the slow shutter speed.  I think it gave them a mysterious look to them. 

Katie Fitzgerald - Crit 3 - Extended Seeing Recipe

POW #11

I used the iPhone 5s, iOS 7.1.

From the App Store, I downloaded a

‘Slow Shutter Speed’, ‘LongExpo’, and ‘Expose Me’ app.

          To take my slow shutter speed photos, I used the apps listed above. I used the ‘Long Expo’ app the most because it let me choose the length of time between each layer and the photos ended up coming out better. When taking these photos, I first started out by finding a subject that could pull off being photographed twice to make layers. After capturing the first layer, I usually shifted the camera to the right to capture the second layer. I paid particular attention to different lighting. In the photo above, I like the lighting because the sky was grey and gave off an ominous feeling. I think slow shutter speed photos look the best when the subject of the photo is mysterious and otherworldly looking. After taking all of the photos, I explored all of the different filters and changed most of them to enhance the content.

           When taking my photos, I tried to focus on capturing different angles that weren’t straight on or expected. I also enjoyed paying particular attention to lighting. For example, in panorama photo #14, it goes from light to dark and it looks like the photo is going from day to night. As said before, I think the slow shutter speed photos look best when the content of the photo is already mysterious. I had fun looking for mysterious things to shoot and then playing with the filter to enhance the eeriness of them.

           Before shooting, I would examine the subject to think of the best way to capture it. I would then bring up the app or panoramic setting on my phone and play with different angles. I also made sure that there was interesting and sufficient lighting before taking the photographs. When taking the panoramas, I would have to retake them a few times to make sure they were straight. When taking the slow shutter speed photos, I would also have to retake them a few times to make sure the two layers looked good together. After taking the pictures, I would test each filter to see which one would best enhance the content in the photograph. Overall, I was pretty happy with my photos and had fun experimenting with the slow shutter speed apps, their filters, and the panoramic setting of my iPhone.

Steve Brydzinski - Crit 3 - Recipe

Smartphone: Apple iPhone 5

OS: 7.1

Software/App: Top Camera LITE vers. 4.8

For this #20 POW from my collection, it was a last minute decision that I rushed to capture as I was leaving the skatepark.  Obviously, by the shot, and a few other photos from the Crit 3, you can assume this is one hobby that makes up a huge part of who I am.  It only seemed fit for this extended seeing assignment, and especially for using shutter priority to manipulate time.

Like I mentioned in the self eval, I have seen thousands of images of skateboarding, and they all are super clear.  Stopping motion is the main key to skateboarding photos, and you never see blurred images of skateboarding.  This was my chance to see the effects of a slow shutter speed.

For this image, and the others under my "Shutter Priority" section, I used an app called "Top Camera LITE."  It took me a few downloads of different apps to find the best one.  This one was the best BY FAR.  it has tons of options such as fully manual shutter priority mode, hdr, and other manual options.  It even has a timer option too.  For this photo however, I used the Shutter priority mode.

The specifics to the photo:

1)Click the triple bar button on bottom right for options menu

2)Under "Slow Shutter:"     

3)Mode > Sum.

4)Time > .3

5)Expos. > 1/4

6)Click the triple bar again to return to camera

7)Wahlaahh!

After playing with the options, these were the settings that worked best for around 6:30 - 7:00 sun set.

Just play around with it, and see what kind of effect it has for you.  

Lindsay Webber - Topic 3: Extended Seeing Recipe

For extended seeing, I wanted to focus on a piece of what I see during my every day routine of walking through the city and look at it in a different light. There is so much life and energy in the city as whole, but I wanted to take a step back and focus on the little details in the city, like the actual construction of the buildings. I also wanted to communicate a slower and relaxed side of center city, rather than the fast-paced chaos usually associated with city environments. I felt that using a slow motion camera shutter would help to create the more relaxed and nostalgic feel that I was seeking.    

In order to shoot my POW titled "City", I wanted to capture the geometric and structured feel of the city. I chose an angle where the buildings perfectly framed the picture. I purposely eliminated the sky or any nature from the picture because I wanted it to be mainly focused on the city and the structural objects. Once I found the perfect angle, I used the slow speed camera app on my iPhone "Slow Shutter Camera". I first focused on a street view of the city with the focal point being the two girls walking ahead of me. I then panned the camera to a section of the city building windows. The slow progression of the camera lens from the girls to the windows creating a blurry, transparent layer over the image. Once the image was complete, I used the auto-enhance option effect option in order to bring out the energy in the background of the picture.

Rita Kraynak- Topic 3: Extended Seeing: Recipe

Device: iPhone iOS 7

App: Afterlight

For my chosen POW my strategy was simple--to capture the moment, as raw as it was. As I mentioned in my self-evaluation, this photo is a great representation of how my life is right now and come May and graduation, it'll never be this way again. I think that my POW really encompasses this view. 

While I was sitting on the roof, I just looked around me and to my left were my two best friends, to my right was an abandoned backyard, and right in front of me where people's homes. It was so unique and immediately I thought it was the perfect view for a panoramic photo. The dynamics of these people being in the picture and where my life is today were truly represented in this photo. This is another way to view extended sight. Aside from the visuals in this picture, there is more to is that I can see. 

That was my simple strategy to capture the moment. As far as editing the photo goes, I wanted to brighten it a bit. I used the saturation took to add bold color and enhance the environment. I didn't touch the contrast or exposure, simply just saturation. The top left of my photo was a bit distorted due to shaky hands while taking a steady photo, so that's why I chose to put a black border around the edge--it covered up the distortion and it (literally) framed the moment. The way it looked worked and I felt that messing with any more effects would take away from the true, real moment I was in at that moment.

Hynda Blum- Topic 3: Extended Seeing: Recipe

Phone: iPhone 4S Version: 7.0.6
Apps: LongExpo (2.0) / InstantBlend (2.2) / Tiny Planets (5.0.1)

With this assignment, using different techniques was definitely a highlight in our photography development. I downloaded a number of apps to see which worked best for this assignment. I found that the best ones were the panorama (built into most iphones), the InstantBlend Tiny Planets and LongExpo. In this assigment, I also had to make sure that backgrounds and lighting were appropriate. When layering multiple photos to convey extended seeing, the lighting and background must be adjusted accordingly or else the photo would become too busy or confusing.

I think my main strategy was to overlap photos using InstantBlend. I tried to make it so that it wasn't obvious that there were two pictures over lapping each other (much like a double exposure). I also wanted the viewer to be able to decipher the different photos and then to be able to appreciate the two pictures as a whole one. My second strategy was to choose subjects that I could make abstract, yet recognizable in some instances. I also used the app called Tiny Planets which essentially warped a photo around itself to convey a small globe out of the photo. This one was used because I wanted to extend the perspective of certain photos to make them more evocative.

With my POW, I used InstantBlend. I took one photo of a coffee mug with some texture on it. I then took a second photo of a close up self portrait. Then overlapping them, one could see that some of my human features were mocked by the handle and curves of the mug. As first glance, my POW looks more subtle, but it in fact has two layers of pictures that are both fairly simple, but together they add value. I also added the "New York" filter to the photo. That filter can be found in the various options of InstantBlend.

Maggie Gottschalk-Extended Seeing

Device: Android Galaxy S2

Software version 4.1.2

App: Pixlr Express

To achieve this week’s goal of “extended seeing” I wanted to show the gradual motion of an object as it moves throughout space.  Usually when we see photographs of objects in motion, the camera only captures the object at one specific moment in time.  As a result, I wanted to try something different and show an object in motion by capturing it at multiple moments in time.

            First, I chose a small textbook as my object because it produces a lot of movement when thrown in the air.  Next, I took the book outside, threw it high in the air, and proceeded to capture multiple pictures of its descent.  Third, I opened up one of the images in an app called Pixlr Express.  Within the app, there is an option through the “adjustment” category to add an image.  I added a different picture to the already existing photo, so now there were two separate images of the book.  I strategically chose a photo that was taken just after the already existing photograph so that the viewer could see the slight change in motion.   I adjusted the photo accordingly so that the pictures lined up, and because they have the same background, it appears that they are the same photograph.  I did not edit the colors of the photograph because I did not want to oversaturate the blue sky in the background.  If I had done this, I feel as though the viewer’s attention would be drawn to the bright background rather than the textbook.

Extra Credit- Crit 3- Aubrey Bourgault-

 While this was not one of my chosen POW's I still find these types of photos to be extremely interesting and fun to mess around with.  Landscapes, and pictures of trees can sometimes be very boring to look at. I really think these types of photos fit very well into "Extended seeing".  To achieve these types of photos I downloaded the application "Tiny Planets" for under a buck. You can take any photo or panoramic and create images that look like "miniature planets".  It can be really hard to achieve a 360 degree picture and this application allows you to easily achieve this.  The way this application achieves this is through something called stereographic projection which maps out a sphere to a flat plane. You can choose at what point you want the image to wrap around and then it gets wrapped around that point.

Polar coordinates allow the image to be wrapped around the focal point on the top center point of the image. You truly have endless opportunities with this application and can create mirrored planets, by taking a panoramic photo and mirror it horizontally.  This really changes typical cliche photos into something much more creative.  This application is available for both android and iPhone at a very low cost.   For both these images, I took cliche pictures of trees, and a landscape.  In the black and white picture I wanted the trees to be going into the focal point.  In the snowy landscape picture I took a panoramic of the trees in front of my snowy front yard.  It was pretty boring to look at and that is why I decided to use this application to give it an entirely new appearance. 

Aubrey Bourgault- Crit 3- Extended Seeing

     In Critique 3, Extended Seeing I found endless possibilities and combinations to create "Extended seeing".  For my chosen POW I took two photos that I shot- one being a close up self portrait of myself, and another being a vertical panoramic of garbage.  Originally I was going to upload the panoramic alone, but felt that it was not really that interesting to look at.  So instead, I combined it with a boring self portrait that I took and created a more intriguing photo, by combining two. 

     I took both these photos using my iPhone 5c that runs on ios 7. I edited both these images in the application "Afterlight" by adding a  Fade filter, and enhancing the brightness.  Then to achieve  the double exposure effect  I downloaded the application "InstaBlend".  The application tells you to first choose a background, and I chose the image with the garbage and shrub. After that you are supposed to input a foreground image, and I chose my self portrait.  After uploading both photos  I increased the "Blender" and decreased the contrast which produced the final photo on the right. This application was extremely easy to use and was actually free. I suggest messing around with it to see what you can come up with!

     I wanted to create an image where at first glance it is hard to tell exactly what the viewer is looking at.  I think I achieved "extended vision" by choosing to doing double exposure, and not just having shooting in one medium. By splitting  two photos into one,  a medium of unseen serendipity.  I was able to go back in time and place myself into an area that I no longer am it.  I think there is both beauty and chaos in this overlay photo that I created.  I wanted the background to look like a thought, or memory, that I was reliving. I had a great deal of phone doing Extended Seeing and am looking forward to continue to use the tools that I have thus learned to create more intriguing photos.

Megan Valenson: Recipe- Extended Seeing

Device: iPhone4s
Version: 7.0.4
App: snapseed

For this project I really wanted to try to take the "extended seeing" prompt to show things most of us probably see everyday from a new and unique perspective. A few days after the start of the assignment I was sitting in the back of my apartment building with some friends and I decided to try t oget some shots done for class. I took this photo using the panoramic feature on the preinstalled camera application on my iPhone. When doing to he panorama rather than shopping it straight across like you would usually do I used a curve to make the building and fence appear distorted. Then  uploaded the picture into the snapseed application.

The first thing I did to process this photo was crop it. Because I did not follow the straight line I had to crop off some of the edges that had produced black edges. From there I really wanted to give the photo this rich tone to it. I increased the contrast slightly and made it more saturated. This really brought the colors to a better level. The last thing I really wanted to do was make sure the picture had a lot of good detail since I felt there was a lot to see. I sharpened the photo first, which really made the houses at the other end of the street clear. This also made the fence pop. I thought this was particularly important to do since I think the fence is the major force that ushers the viewer's eye from one end of the photo to the other. Then I increased the grain in the photo a little. This really brought out the texture that I liked on the side of the building.

I am really proud of this photo. I think it is an appealing shot of something that when you look at it in real life comes off as rather uninteresting.

Michael Zimney - Extended Seeing - Let the Light do the Work

                For this section I wanted to embrace darkness and how I could use very little light to enhance such images, given that we were using long shutter times.  I also tried to embrace the aspect of blurring and “smearing” of images to attempt to create art and abstract rather than typical photos that simply captured distorted, but otherwise recognizable, images.  I selected 2 photos for my recipe.  For both photos I used my Iphone 5S, operating system 7.0.2.  The first is a self-portrait in which I have my arm up over my head.  I used an app called “Long Expo”.  I set the exposure to “low light” and adjusted the shutter speed to 4 seconds.  I made sure the light level in the room was low and then switched the cam in my phone to “selfie” mode.  I took several photos with different poses and varied the length of shutter exposure.  For this photo I had the lens open for just over 1 second and shifted my pose only slightly, which created the ghost-like image around my body.  The darkness of the room combined with the extended light exposure cast an “erie” tone across the whole photo which made the whole thing feel “undead”.  In the second photo, I went out onto my deck at night.  Using the same app, I selected “light trail” as the setting and adjusted the shutter speed to manual.  Holding the phone as still as possible I opened the lens and let it stay open for what must have been about 5 seconds, while I watched what little light there was spill into the photo.  The result was a photo that was very “painting” like.  With both photos I did not do any post photo production, other than a slight bit of cropping for each, just to center the images the way I wanted them to be framed.  I was really trying to use the long exposure time to create art and visual imagery more than just distorted photos of otherwise ordinary things.  I wanted to try to embrace more muted and dull tones and allow the light to do the work as opposed to the color.