Assignment 2

top is edited , bottom is not edited

 The editing site that’s I’ve use to edit both photos is Picnik. The picture of the wild animal is a photograph of what I took up in the mountains of Vietnam summer 2011. I have edited the photo by cropping the picture and zooming in to this to focus on this one animal and what the animal is doing. I’ve never seen a wild animal before and there was more than one, I actually thought it was someone’s but no one else was around. Just as the war pictures I wanted to capture the moment, and back then there was no zooming in on a picture, you’ll have to be close up. If I was close up taking the picture of these wild animal they probably would have attacked me, I wasn’t brave enough like Capa, experience what the animal is experiencing but I can see just by looking how happy they seem. I also like the fact that this picture isn’t what you see in everyday life because we live in a city full of buildings. We imaging only animals being in zoos and this picture that I’ve capture is a wild animal in its natural habitat. So to those who are viewing this picture can see and have a feel that there is so much to explore in the world such as animals in their natural habitat, other cultures etc; see what life has to offer. Art forms a story that we can share with others, just like the war pictures used as history to look back on.

This picture is also taken summer 2011 after the Vietnam trip, it is in Montreal at Mont Tremblant whom I road tripped with the girls to our friend’s birthday. This photo I edited several parts, first I have intensified the photo using “vibrance” so the colors would look richer like how it I seen it in real life. I also played around and used “sunless tanned” on two of my friends to have a summer glow which works really well; it shows how much you can change on people with all the options they have, with also all these effects that suits your mood. I added in some summer stickers that would remind me of what I did there such as a boat because we went on a boat, suitcase because we stayed for a few days, flip flops, drinks etc. I added in text to remind me the place and date, and lastly on a Polaroid frame which to me represents it like a memory. This relates with the war pictures because Im documenting the photo. With picture editing I can apply creative ways to customize and document my photo as well as editing them to look more realistic to how to seen it or how you want to see it.