For this project I tried to make the pictures as crisp and detailed as possible for the first three. I did not want too much imagination to show through so that it could easily show the main focus was on the shoes. For the last three I tried something new, and added pictures of the galaxy I found online to the backgrounds. I was listening to my Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack at the time and was not interested with the boring pictures of shows. So I tried to spice things up with a cool background.

This was the original picture that I took with a low aperture (26 or so) and around a one second or 1.5 second shutter. It brightened up the picture more than I wanted, and the roots were distracting. I cropped the picture a whole lot and upped the vibrance to give it my vibrant and easy to look at style that I tend to use in most of my pictures.

This is my final product. I like how the water looks on the rocks, harsh in the middle but soft on the edges. If I could change it I would try to set up closer to the rock so I could zoom in more without losing quality to the picture.

I made many subtle yet fun changes to his face. I asked him if I could try and mold his face to what other people find most attractive. I took his scruffy beard and added more stubble to it, I put definition in his eyebrows. I thinned his face and cleared any acne. I added contrast and vibrance to his eyes and played with burning his face to give him a tan. I did go slightly overboard, but I really like how realistic yet completely different the final product was. I used maybe 20 layers on this face, and I am really proud of the finished product.

This picture is not perfect, because I took a picture of a flower and just mirrored it vertically. I like how it still looks semi natural but very symmetrical.

This is just a picture of a very symmetrical roof. I found it at a shed at my friends house and was very impressed because they made the shed themselves and it was very symmetrical and even.

This was taken a while ago, and even through it is not perfectly symmetrical, it does have the same type of framing on both sides.

I am using this as a non-symmetrical picture because it has the white ice crystals on one side, but not the other.

John takes many pictures of birds that are almost surreal and I wish I had the patience to wait for an object to photograph. With this image I learned that I can have the subject in the middle of the picture and not just in the third corners.

I have tried time after time to take pictures of icicles, and I am very impressed with how this turned out.

John has a very shallow depth of field in every single photo he takes, and I want to understand how he does that better to hopefully copy his style in the future.