Photostory

Here is my final photostory, followed by each picture and a description below the slideshow:


For this projected I used dozens of photos. Way more than 10 photos. The main scene of the photostory is actually 5 photos that I spliced together in a panorama. I then used the dodge and burn, and smudge tool to blend the photos. I also used the cloning tool in pesky areas. (They had lighting and contrast issues) I also used  the contrast tool in GIMP to get them all to blend well. I then used the selection tool to delete everything above the mountain line. Next I touched up the mountain line with the pencil tool, to make it blend better. Here is the panorama before the edits:


From then on out most of the photos were easy. I had taken dozens of photos of the sky, without having to return to the original spot (Elmore mountain) I make the area above the mountain transparent on the above photo, and from there I just had to paste in different skies that I thought fit the time of day. A lot of times I had to adjust the contrast, and clone out some powerlines, treetops, etc. I also had to stretch some of the images to make them fit the panorama.

For the very first photo I used the fog filter to try to imitate an early morning fog. I also darkened the contrast on the photo, and inserted the morning sky. I had to darken the mountain line using the burn tool, to make it fit the skyline.

 

The next six photos were just a matter of adding sky lines for the time of day I was trying to imitate, adjusting the contrast, and editing the mountain line to try to get the appropriate lighting.

 

 

For the next two photos, I tried to imitate a mid day storm, mainly because I wanted to incorporate the rainbow picture I had taken. I used RBG noise filter, mixed with a motion filter and fog filter to try to make it look like a storm. I also darkened the contrast significantly on both photos.

 

I'm not sure the moon really fits into the story, because the moon isn't visible in the last two photos because I edited it out, but I thought it was cool enough to leave in the next photo. Again, sky is a different photo from the original, and I used the contrast tool to darken it, as well as the burn tool on the mountain line.

I love the way this photo turned out. It's the same as the photo before it, only I darkened the contrast over and over on everything below the mountains. I then added the sky from the photo above, darkened it, and added the supernova filter numerous times at various settings to add my stars.

 

 

That's my photo story. Way more ambitious than I first though, but I managed to get it finished. I am really happy with the way it turned out. This class has really sold me on GIMP, and it will be a program I continue to explore.