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I decided to take a picture of my fiance’s car! It is his steering wheel. I used a filter on an app called B612. This app is so much fun to mess with.
Color Changer (2 stars)
The Story
This photo illustrates the takeover of the United States and the world, by a new alien species in the year 2078. The alien species announced their arrival by changing the sky from the reassuring blue we once called normal to a bright crimson red. It all began on a day in July in 2078, the sky was clear and the sun was shining. Slowly the sky turned that day into this fearful red. The alien population descended from the sky, children and mothers were screaming and running, the military was too slow to react and the head alien, Kimosabi, killed Obama and the entire administration leaving the American people leaderless and helpless to their control.
The Process, Narrated
This began with after I watched half of a Star Wars movie. I googled an image of the US Capitol building and then saved it. Using pixlr.com I opened the image and adjusted the contrast and increased the red levels in the color balance to adjust the sky. I then uploaded the finalized image to Flickr and then to my blog.
This visual assignment tasked me with taking a picture and changing the look of it by changing its color scheme. I decided to use a vacation photo of a Yellowstone hot spring. I thought that by giving it more of a red hue, I could make it look like the surface of an alien planet. I’m not sure how successful I was, but it sure looks a lot different now.
Maybe you could imagine it as a post-apocalyptic version of Yellowstone. Nuclear waste has changed to color of the water. Toxic fumes fill the air. Very morbid. I think it fits with the theme I seemed to have created.
For the actual process, I took the image and edited it in GIMP. From there, I played around with the color settings. This was my first time using the program, so I kind of just stumbled around the menus until I happened upon something that looks decent. For reference, here’s the original picture:
http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/color-changer/
When creating this image my initial goal was to try and make the Eagle Bridge look more like a castle. I had hoped that tweaking the colors (making the photo more gray), however it wasn’t turning out very well so I decided to look for a color combination that was pleasing to the eyes. I really like how the roof of the building in the top right of the photo turned out. It looks almost like some sort of abstract painting in my opinion. I think the blue kind of makes the building seem as if it was frozen, or perhaps even made out of a block of solid ice. I really like how it looks!
My basic process for this photo was to import it into Photoshop and then to play around with the colors until I liked the result. It didn’t take too long, but longer than I anticipated, because a lot of the colors that kept popping out looked really dreadful in my opinion.
This assignment was: 
Color changer
The picture I decided to change/edit was one I took sophomore year. In it is Monroe Hall. That day the skies were a beautiful blue color. I remember that it was a surprisingly warm day for whatever month it was.
I went through my pictures and chose this photo. I opened it on my macbook and just pressed the edit button. I know that there are many different ways of doing this. I focused mainly on the color aspect of it. I moved everything completely to the right or completely to the left, whatever I thought looked cooler. It didn’t change the colors completely, but to me it looks a little eerie. The shadows and highlights are enhanced and the trees look scary.
This Tutorial is for the color changer assignment.
Step 1. Choose any picture out of your photo library, preferably something that that was taken outside.
Step 2. Once you choose the picture open it with up with a program on your computer that can edit and change pictures.
I chose to use my photo editor program on my computer, every computer has different software for this.
Step3. Use the effects tab to make the color changes to the Photo, you can use any effect you want to change the photo.
Step 4. Save the Photo and upload the photo to Flickr, or WordPress.
Step 5. Your finished
Entering Tunnel 2 on the way to Blackhawk, CO, on highway 6. Tunnels interest me and with a splash of color this already beautiful pic, get’s an ‘over the rainbow’ feel.
A big part of my story lately, is the trip I took to Italy in November. The experience was mindblowing, and everyday held a new adventure. I spent 2 full days just wnadering around Rome and getting lost with a Preist friend of mine. I spent another day and a half winding my way through the alleys and the back canals of Venice, a city which somehow always makes you fell like the most exciting thing that ever happened is waiting for you just around the next corner. As a result of my trip, I have hundreds of pictures from all over the country, and nothing really useful to do with them, so for now they are just sitting on my thumb drive. When I read some of these Visual Assignments, I leapt at the chance to use some of my pictures from Italy in a more productive way.
The top photo was originally taken from atop the North American College in Rome. The North American College is where all the men from the Americas go to take classes etc and learn how to become Catholic Priests. One of the men currently studying there is a friend of mine, so he arranged for me to be able to visit and see what he insists is the best view of Rome. After wanreding all over the city, I am inclined to agree.
The bottom photo is a collection of statues from around Florence. Florence, to me, was not a particularly remarkable city in and of itself. There’s just a thin veneer of facetiousness that coats everything in the city. That being said, the art in Florence is otherworldy, amd Michelangelo’s David is the crowning glory of the collection. We’ve all seena million pictures of the David, but nothing could ever do justice to the magnificence of the statue in real life.
