Color Theory Midterm
Posted on 30 May 2009
I finally got the grade for my Color Theory midterm and though I would share the image that I had produced for the midterm. For this assignment, our instructor gave us 30 minutes to shoot 10 random but GOOD images around campus (believe me, mine were horrible, not anywhere near good visuals at all). In order for her to be able to tell if we shot within our allowed time before we go shoot, we must take a photo of the hallway clock and then when we return we must take another picture of the hallway clock. Between the two times, it should be about 30 minutes in between the taken time.
From the 10 pictures we had shoot, we are to pick ONE photo that we like most and we must color correct the image and make it look appealing to the viewer. But the catch is, we are allow to use only 3 sheet of printing papers, which means one paper for the contact sheet so she can see all the images we took including the time, and then one print to see what we must do to the image and the last print is the final print.
During this time we are not allowed to ask for each other’s help or opinion, the instructor and assistance instructors are in our printing labs and our Mac labs to make sure no one is “cheating”. Everything must be our own judgments and how will we can color correct an image and if we can see the color cast. Since we are allow to only us 3 printing paper we must try to be as close to perfect as possible, we are allow to fix the images in any way we need to including cropping, as long as it looks good and no added artifacts.
She graded us on, how well we shot the image, or if we know which image is the best from the set of images we took, how well we color correct the image, or if we are able to white balance the image, she also graded us on how close we are to color correcting the image. She said that if our final print is not correct, as long as we can tell her what needed to be done to make the final print, she’ll also except that as well. On a separate sheet of paper we also had to explain what we did to the image for our final print.
Here are the steps I did with this image:
Open the image in Camera raw
gave the image a white balance and also cropped the image in camera raw
export it into photoshop
I sharpen some parts of the image
I used the fill to cover my sharpen image then paint in the parts that needed to be sharpen
Most important part besides white balance was the color balance (purpose of assignment)
I added 8 points of blue to my entire image to color correct it
Lastly I did an overall curve on the entire image and also pulled the two points in curves closer together to pop the contrast of the image and then simple the leaf so I can make a curve adjustment on that.
My overall grade for my image was a 98%. I was extremely proud of myself for this assignment with the short time limit we have and the limited location. We had about an hour to fix the image and get it printed and also get it turned in. Whew, I swear I thought I was going to get a horrible grade for it, but my color correcting was right on the ball, and the visual wasn’t so bad. My teachers comment for this assignment was “Well done Ze! Only thing- Burn down upper right corner”… After I read that comment I started to notice that it does needed to be burned down, if I did, I might had received a 100%, but either way a 98% was good enough!
(sorry, i lost some quality of the image since I had to copy and save it through PAINT since this is a 16 bit image and cannot be converted to JPG, too lazy to convert it to 8bit)
The horrible contact sheet
THe final print
my layers/what I did to the image minus the text, i had added the text just so I can post it up online with my name
5 responses to Color Theory Midterm
Hi Ze…I found your blog through a friend and just wanted to let you know that your photography is looking good…not that I would really know but I just bought a Nikon D90 so I’m an amateaur but hope to be as good as you one day. lol. I’m still learning. Hope you don’t mind if I ask you for any advice. Check out my blog at http://ccc-moments.blogspot.com/ if you have time.
Hi Ze…found your blog through a friend and just wanted to let you know that your photographs look great. I just bought a Nikon D90 so I’m still learning and hope you don’t mind if I ask you for any advice. Check out my blog at http://ccc-moments.blogspot.com/ when you’re not too busy.
Wow, you did real good, even before reading your post and knowing your grade, I really like the last image, the green color pop-out, see rain is not so bad, the rain drop on the leave makes it looks lively.
Lily, thanks for stopping by my blog and also I had added your blog onto my blogroll. I did went into your blog for a quick look, but since I am at work I can’t read or stay long in there, but I’ll be sure to visit you blog often.
I am still a learning photographer too. I have much to learn and my skills needs much improvemtns. I hope that soon enough I can take great pictures as the professionals.
Oh, by the way, Thank you so very much!
If you have any questions I’ll try my best to answer them. I have a Canon Rebel XSi and from what I understand Canon and Nikons are similar, but are different in their own ways. If you have any questions or feature questions about the camera do feel free to ask.
Nye, thanks so much. I honestly wasn’t expecting this grade. I thought I was gonna get somewhere around 80 and below. ahaha. But I am glad I got what I got. Whew!