Photo Essay

For the photo essay I decided to take Macro images of all things nature, I find Macro photography extrememely interesting and believe its a great way to see things in a whole new way. Here is my end result, hope you enjoy watching it as much as I did putting it together!

I cant seem to get Youtube to co-operate with me right now, so here is a link to the video!

 http://youtu.be/ZFxQPsJTLF8

City Assignment

We were asked to draw some lines using charcoal, take a snapshot of our artwork and bring it into Photoshop. Then add some photos of building that we took over the Easter Break. I also used some other photos of building I had in my collection from our excursion to the city and some other random photos I had laying around. Here are my finished works.

Fire Video

This project took me a while to come up with a concept, and I believe that I didnt think it over as well as I could have, but nevertheless am still happy with my end result.

Much thanks to my good friend "AZZA" also for being the star of my short film. 

My Second Attempt at the X-Ray Giraffe

So i decided to practice with masks at home and ended up with a much cooler, in my opinion anyway, animation!

Here it is!

"Masking" in After Effects

Today we were introduced to masking in After Effects, these are 2 animations made with masking.

The first one using 2 layers, one the regular giraffe photo and the other being the x-ray image of that giraffe. Using the masking feature I moved the mask around the giraffe to reveal different areas of the underneath layer.

          

The second animation was made using a transperent photoshop document. Using the mask feature slowly revealed the vine as if it was growing. I had some trouble with this one uploading it to YouTube, so stay tuned and it should be uploaded soon!

Introduction to HDR and "bracketing"

We spent half the day shooting bracketed photos down at Frankston Foreshore, this is a really exciting way to take photos, I came out with some pretty good shots, had a great time doing it and plan on doing many more!

MIA AND MYSELF taken by Tom Aluza

 

Here are some of my favourite shots I came out with from that day at Frankston Foreshore.

I am planning on purchasing the HDR program called Photomatix, which is the program I used to merge these bracketed photos, unfortunately because I have not purchased it as yet, my photos have a Photomatix waterark on them.

 

Twirling Flowers - After Effects First Attempt

This is the first animation I made using Adobe After Effects, the idea was to create an animation using pictures and sound.
Here is the finished product.

TWIRLING FLOWERS

Stop Motion Assignment

At first this assignment worried me a bit because we were pressed for time and to get the lighting correct you must do all 300 shots in the one sitting, however we had to do half of them then come back later to complete it, it didnt look right having done it this way so I decided to start over at home using a blackboard, had a light set up next to the blackboard so the lighting wouldnt change throughout the stop motion. 
And here is my end result, enjoy!

WEBSTER