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This picture was taken by me during the Auto Show at the Toronto Convention Center. The program I used to edit the original was Photoshop. The premise I took around this photograph is, do not believe everything you see in the media. To begin, I created an overlay of solid white and brought down the opacity as to brighten up the scene, also to give the chrome on the car more of a shine to catch the eye to start. As I poorly demonstrated the original picture featured a happy family to the right corner of the photograph viewing the car. From a editors stand point, this could be seen as distracting to the viewer and draw their attention away from the main focal point. Also at another point I had begun to crop the photo to once again draw focus on the car. Having a very busy background would lead to another point of having a viewer be distracted. In other words, photos we see in the media can be cropped and people airbrushed out so a viewer cannot truly take in the whole photographer, giving the media full reign to make their viewer base misinterpret what they are actually seeing.
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This photograph was taken during the 2011 London Riots that took place over the summer. Although this photograph is not mine, I find the image stunning. The driving force behind this edit would be Moholy-Nagy's photography mixed with Stieglitz subject matter. Nagy used such subtle desaturated tones, on almost a grey scale and let the shapes speak for themselves.While Stieglitz would take normally chaotic environments and give them a sense of eerie calm. When I had first looked at the original picture I noticed that the burning bus and resulting smoke plume carried right off into the end of the picture, giving it a almost rectangular geometric shape that almost "contained" the action. As I began to desaturate the picture I began to play with the levels of white, black and grey within the picture. Giving whites a sharper pop, added for interesting contrast between the black and grey plumes of smoke and began to draw the eye of the viewer immediately. Lastly I continued to adjust the levels to create more shadow in the background to bring the bus forward more, with that the buildings gave way to amazing shapes made from the shadows and lights from the resulting fire, which in the end led to an eye catching, yet calm image.
