Photo Effects

This image is an example of the photo effect called Daguerreotype. Daguerreotype is a direct-positive photographic process that was used in the 1800's. It is done by putting a detailed image on a silver plated copper sheet sensitized by iodine. Then the image is then developed using heated mercury. To edit this photo, I added two different textures and made them very opaque. Then I added a third texture which created the black frame of my photo.  I took this photograph in my back yard. I like this one a lot because of the content. I think it looks like a wild chicken which is funny to me and I like the use of rule of thirds.

This is an example of the tilt-shift effect.  The tilt-shift effect uses lens blur to selectively blur a certain area of a photo which creates a shallow depth of field and gives the effect of everything in the photo looking miniature.  I took this photograph on the hill where Pittock mansion is.  Then I created this image by blurring everything surrounding the middle tower in the photo.  I love this picture because lots of people in Portland know exactly where it is because of the two blue towers in the upper right corner, and so they can recall how it actually looks.  I especially love how the river in the background adds to how small everything around it looks.