fLaura Romaniello has 6 post(s)

Manipulating Photos by Hand

I kind of wish I got to experience photo manipulation in the dark room. It is super interesting to me and I would love to make a montage by hand to fully understand the process that goes into it. I think that by manipulating a photo yourself like how they did before photoshop will give you a greater appreciation for the craft. I honestly didn’t think that photo manipulation was possible back in the 1800’s, it’s astonishing to see the products that were made without the help from any digital technology. I learned in high school about film making and the process they went through back then and I had never thought about how similar it was to photo manipulation in photography. Placing images on top of one another to create a compiled negative which is then developed to one awesome photo manipulated image. It’s so fascinating!

Jerry Uelsmann

I find Jerry Uelsmann to be a very talented photographer, he has an amazing eye for montages and creating images with a message. Watching his videos of the process in which he makes his photos really opened my eyes to the efforts that go into photo manipulation. You really have to know what you’re doing to get the best product. Below I have created a gallery of some of Jerry’s work that I find fascinating.

haunted-

adj. Frequented or much visited by spirits, imaginary beings, apparitions, spectres, etc.

kerplunk-

adj. To fall with a sound like that of a heavy object falling into water.

graveyard-

n. a burial ground, especially one beside a church.

obrumpent-

adj. breaking; bursting

I took this quiz two times, the first time I got an 86 which I was okay with but I knew I could do better. The second time I kind of rushed through it but I was familiar with the kerning that had to be done in order to  get a good grade so I fixed the kerning on the words and took a step back to see if the words looked good and continued onto the next. I didn’t really find any of the words too challenging. The only word that I would consider to be difficult was Yvess because of the Y and the lowercase v. Overall I didn’t struggle to fix the kerning, it was all about what just looked normal to me. Yeah I could have moved a few letters over a smidge to get a 100 but I am happy enough with my score that I can accept it to be put into the grade book as it is. I will always be happy with an A!