Digital Photography course photo editing contest

Second semester winners named
The second semester Digital Photography class photo editing contest concluded with these students taking the top three prizes: (1) Erin Repucci, Freeland High School; (2) Lily Sagers, Schoolcraft High School; and (3) Chelsea Woodbury, Hillsdale High School. Students were allowed up to three entries in any one of eight different photo editing catagories. The entries were judged by a panel of five impartial judges.

		1^st Place – Sports Enhancement Program Gone Wrong Erin Repucci, Freeland High School I wanted to branch out a little and experiment in an area in which I would not normally. The actual process was a little tricky. To start off I found that my two images were not the same size at all. I had to scale the image of the basketball player (MSU's Raymar Morgan) to make it the same, if not a similar size to the frog. Tracing and selecting the frog legs was a little difficult as well, but I used the eraser to get as close to the legs as I could ... I began using the freehand selection tool to grab pieces of the crowd ... I added a slight zoom blur effect and a lens flare to add a little bit of realism to the photo.
		2^nd Place – Beautiful Building Lily Sagers, Schoolcraft High School To create this image I first found a building that I liked, which happened to have many windows and lines ... I then added a layer, cloned the color of the original building, and proceeded to color in the part of the building that were not the windows. I created a new background layer with an image of Van Gogh's “Starry Night.” I created a darker sky and then used the confetti brush with gray and lavender shades to create fog over the sky and create a wispy fog over the edges of the building. The fog brings the image together, combining the rigid architecture of the building with the vague and dreamlike feel of the painting.
		3^rd Place – The Girelephant Chelsea Woodbury, Hillsdale High School I cut out the head of the giraffe using the magnetic lasso and copied and pasted it to the elephant’s head. It wasn't quite the correct color so I used the color balance tool bar and made the giraffe head look a little more gray, like the elephant head. Then I sized it using the scale tool and made the head larger, to fit the elephant proportionally. Then I used the eraser tool to erase the top part of the head that I cut out before, because it just didn't look right. So I then did the blur tool to blur the two photos together, so it looked more realistic.

Honorable Mention
These students’ entries received honorable mentions: Erin Repucci, Lily Sagers (for two entries), Lindsay Peterson (North Dickinson County School) and Shanteran Kappen (Unionville-Sebewaing High School).

For more information about the Digital Photography course, visit the course catalog.

Digital Photography course photo editing contest

		1^st Place – Sports Enhancement Program Gone Wrong Erin Repucci, Freeland High School I wanted to branch out a little and experiment in an area in which I would not normally. The actual process was a little tricky. To start off I found that my two images were not the same size at all. I had to scale the image of the basketball player (MSU's Raymar Morgan) to make it the same, if not a similar size to the frog. Tracing and selecting the frog legs was a little difficult as well, but I used the eraser to get as close to the legs as I could ... I began using the freehand selection tool to grab pieces of the crowd ... I added a slight zoom blur effect and a lens flare to add a little bit of realism to the photo.
		2^nd Place – Beautiful Building Lily Sagers, Schoolcraft High School To create this image I first found a building that I liked, which happened to have many windows and lines ... I then added a layer, cloned the color of the original building, and proceeded to color in the part of the building that were not the windows. I created a new background layer with an image of Van Gogh's “Starry Night.” I created a darker sky and then used the confetti brush with gray and lavender shades to create fog over the sky and create a wispy fog over the edges of the building. The fog brings the image together, combining the rigid architecture of the building with the vague and dreamlike feel of the painting.
		3^rd Place – The Girelephant Chelsea Woodbury, Hillsdale High School I cut out the head of the giraffe using the magnetic lasso and copied and pasted it to the elephant’s head. It wasn't quite the correct color so I used the color balance tool bar and made the giraffe head look a little more gray, like the elephant head. Then I sized it using the scale tool and made the head larger, to fit the elephant proportionally. Then I used the eraser tool to erase the top part of the head that I cut out before, because it just didn't look right. So I then did the blur tool to blur the two photos together, so it looked more realistic.

For more information about the Digital Photography course, visit the course catalog.