Photo manipulation

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This photo was taken when I went to Fredericton, PEI

Here is a picture of a dish I had in cuba. First, I had to resize the picture smaller to focus on the dish and removed the outer sides of the phot to deemphasize objects like the piece of bread and crumbs. Next step was croping the photo to remove the other unwanted parts of the photo. I then rotated the picture to get a better angle of the shot or to just center it, because the photo was a bit bright and had a glare to it I reduced the white balance to make it a bit darker. The vibrance was increased slightly to reveal the colours of the redness and dulls it out a bit so more details can be seen. Exposure was decreased to show better textures, things like the shrimp and the pasta has more body to it, you can now see it more clearly. The last thing I did was increase the contrast to bring out the picture more, adding colour.

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First of all, the photo was cropped so the car would be in an upright position. I lowered the exposure to make the photo alot more dull, more like an old fashioned photo. Reducing the sharpness makes it look like the car was shot going at high speeds, adds a bit of blurriness. The saturation was deceased signifigantly so the photo would be in a black and white aspect.

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Here is a picture of a rainbow i took off the internet. First step was increasing the exposure to make the photo more textured. Clarity was added so it makes the elements in the photo more appealing. I added a bit of warmness to give it a more autumn feel to the environment. I made it brighter so the colour in the rainbow would be more noticeable. Also the orange was reduced which made the leaves more red to show the changing of the colours.

When something is reproduced for so many times is that art? What's the importance of the mechanical reproducibility of the art? What was the impact on mechanical reproducibility on the society?

If something is reproduced a lot of times, technically speaking it is still art. The importance of mechanical reproducibility of art is to allow innovation. It helps educate and enlighten to produce new and exciting art. We learn from others achievements and drives us to generate better and a more remarkable artwork.

Is photography art, or contribution to the art? Is it just a tool used by artists?

I believe photography is an art because someone has to be skillful and knowledgeable enough to capture art. It’s like comparing an amateur to a professional. For example if you were to capture a photo of an egg, how would you do it? The amateur would probably think, there’s nothing special about this egg and just take a snapshot of it. But the professional would be mindful enough to add lightning, backgrounds and different flashes to add more depth into the subject.

How and why Henry Pitch Robinson created Fading Away? What was the reason?

Henry intended to capture a picture of a grieving family over the coming death of their daughter because he wanted viewers to see the emotion the family was going through. The photo was created by Robinson’s imagination, which many viewers felt the scene was quite painful to be rendered as art.

Photography has impacted the world of art and influenced some changes in the area of accessibility to art. If mechanical reproduction created revolution, what is happening now with the digitalization?

Digitalization allows us to change and alter images with ease which was not attainable in the past due to technology. Because some images do not exist in this world it allows us to bring our imagination to life to produce new works of art. Digital creativity allows people to create new and unsought of ideas to life