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By this time we got to the end of the last semester and the pohtolessions as well, saidly:(
as for the time we went trough I can mantion several adavncements either technically or theoretically in my photographic skills. I suggest that the photoshop and the basic use of it I learned moved me towards better understanding why a photo artist does something with a photo and how he makes it. so it isn't anymore like that I say it is only photoshopped, but I also can see the process or guess at least in via the photo went trough.

My skills got better I suggest in assembling a picture and in case of the usage of lights. I had a though point of using flash before the class, which I do hope I apply rightly and better now:)

Last but not least I owe you Alan with the 4 Humours:










As for the 4 works above I suggest that they are full of emotions and exprssions so I hope they match the humors.

So thank you Allan for the lessions and the things you taught me!

Studio and lession on FinalSlide

The studio work has brought me something which I was really anxcious to do, it was working with white walls as background and professional lights. No matter that I knew before that even with a normal bulb I can reach dramatic effects on pictures I was really curious to use and to see at work these "gadgets".
Firstly I found it good that a discription was given to the lighting and how it works, because nobody is born with all in-bulit skills;)
Secondly, I also enjoyed the fact that people behaved more photogenic in the studio context, as they usually refuse taking portraits.
All in all, I should say that the class had a psoitive influence on the way I look at lighting now, and the flash has disappeared as the only tool of light in my "photographic dictionary".
As for the first picture I uploaded I would leave the viewer to decide which person to look at as a subject of the snap, but my intention was to have a look behind the scenes and take a 'how was it made picture', which I suggest looks good in the end of a long list, assembled from face and bust-snaps'.
This second picture I've just uploaded, because it ended up with this kind of hyper-space special effect... I used to do intentionally such things, but only with objects and also carefully on them as well because they get blured easily...Actually I never could execute on face without ending up with a monsterlike face until now. So this snap has just broken the ice and I hope it will have an afterlife with several face-space effects.

Concerning the final slide, I suggest that it is a good idea and I won't spoil the surprise even to us how it going to be assembled from various snaps, so I leave it for the final talk to give my opinion on it. For the handy reason as well that I can talk better on a thing which is done, than on the one which is only under constructon;)

Cs2 expereinecs and field trip

Firstly I would like to share my thoughts about the lession devoted to CS2. The use of this program is essential indeed at maikng a new-digital age photograph, which means the editing of the snap in the digital black room.
Our expert on screen ( I dont remember the name of the guy..:) has shown in work and real how CS2 converts bad litten and wrongly trimmed pictures into eye wondering, spectacular photographs. The hints and tips as, I stood to the lession, have reveald some new kinds of them /new buttons, toolbars on the menu. So hopefully I also can benefit from them and apply his ideas for some picture transitions.

The off trip:
The 'excursion' in downtown has brought about some interresting snaps in interrseting context for me. As for the old man standing behing the Parliament, he seemed to be the perfect modell:D as he didn't move at all and all the classmates and people were arround him so he became the liveley and rigid but sincere point of my camera.
As he would stand on that bridge only a perfect sunset popped up on my mind, but as never the perfect is there for us I'm satisfied without the Sun or the Moon in the background with his gentle glare towards the towers of the Parliament.

The last but not least snap of mine is this real-life expression form a building site. The way they look and have a rest before work:p really conveys their attitude and the situation they are in, at early in the morning.

Landscape and what's behind it

First and foremost let's begin with the general set up. A bright winter day, clear and fresh snow..best choice to take a snap of it.
To enhance the blue sky and the white snow I put a bluish. light filter on the photo which gave a better and more alive look to the picture. However the hazy thing arround the water tower is not my creation it was there for my luck and joy:)
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So goes the story on and is transformed...







And the tower is done at last. I tried to give a kind of spooky but not a hearth attacking, seriusly striking darkness to the trees. Which were perfect on the top for me:) and the white was also okay till I couldn't turn it less bright, however I had a sloution for this:) it was croping...
The third section over moving the colurful parts of the tower rightwards and triing to imitate an questionable object for us is the smaller snap above. Retrieving the style of the films from the 70's.

Rocky Stones

Now here is the latest stone pile of mine, which I picked from the garden to have something interresting in shape and shadyness.
The colour which I remained at is the final output of a process while playing with flowers and even with Monalisa to colour her eyes... but she seemed to unwill it. I suggest because instead of the curves which made her eyes more bright she was really made to be dark eyed and the bluish things didn't fit her at all.
So anyway coming back to the point why the stone is brownish and now green is that it looked simply the best fitting colour in context not to disturb the silently resting stonies.

The Psychedelic project and some other snaps

First of all lets begin with my first real experiences with Photoshop and the first results. The uasage of this program I considered pretty difficult before and I didn't really devote time to photoediting programs till now.
I had a principle that I take and produce pictures only with the help of my camera and I just do trimming on computer. But now I suppose this encounter has encouriged me to use digital editing schemes at designing photos, because many successful and talented artists also use do the same.

The psychedelic palmtree has also behaved as I wanted it to be, it even has the purple line which I wanted to put on it so it is just like as I wanted:)


An other issue is the "primadonna" who sits in front of the school. I edited her ina kind of greyscale and carving way, the result I don't really confront but I couldn't deepen the lines arround her body and make the background less outstanding, because when I tried to do it it affected the whole picture. But anyway she is still a sensy lady;)As fir initialas which I photographed not far from teh school building I found them quite randomly but as quick as they appeared they inspired me to shape them for special parts and the one which I'm to display is my favourite.

Last but not least I've also done the wedding invitation card. Which was pretty ricky and the mst time-consuming from all tha editings I did on the snaps. No matter how big photograph I had at the beggining it rally has compressed by the end, but I just wanted to leave the most important motif the heart from it.

The colours I don't know how does this 'small' picture reflect here but the addiztional changes which you may can not see in this form that the

middle of the hearth was taken out and coloured to orange and some of the edges wree shortened.

Cars and things

Basically everbody can guess from the title of this topic what were we bound to do at that lession, photographing cars.

These shiny, gorgious monsters or even the smallest editions of city cruisers were on the other side of the photomachine bringing joy as well as demanding effort to capture them from the best angle.

The favourite snap of mine is this palm tre and the lines of a car-door, the shapes and the play with the shades does really capture me as they bend from side to side and make for the infinity. The shade reflected by the rear-view mirror makes me to imagine an other object above the picture, so the main meaning of this picture for me is that you can se the beauty but the other part is to be imagined in your mind and let for your fantasy.

The second snap which I've choosen is a smart Smart with its double lights. The round shape and the circles prevail the picture making a familiar and friendly impression. I prefered to take it in black and white cause y intention was to highlight the lines and the shades instead of the flamboyant colour of the car.

Let it go

After the orientation at the 1st week now the work finally got started.
I've been curiously waitin for taking snaps and discover something new.

The thing wich has clarified in me now is that modern artists and photographers do use the computer and digital technology to make their best and to complie their pictures. This fact was something like manipulation on my mind before and I had debates with myself how far I can go by editing a picture on the computer. Basicly I went till croping and did some elementary changes on the snap but nothing more serious.

As for, the difficulties of the first action I suggest that was the lighting and contrast. Quite hard to balance both of them without making a picture in an other perspective. I suppose improving that skill and understanding it will help me to take better pictures.

The really beggining

First and foremost let me intorduce myself and my reasons why I've created this blog.
My name is Adam Selymes, I'm a 1st year student of IBS at Art Management faculty, which is a pretty interresting and entertaining subject to study.

My story began aprox. 3years ago in Leeds when I took my first picture which has captured my hearth and made me a fan of photography. The picture was taken at an excursion on a rainy day with my school. I always enjoyed taking pictures of sights and happenings, so I tried to do sth which is going to resemble me for that trip. Actually it surprised me how it ended up, and continued since then with a several ones:)

As for my first experiences at school, I suppose it is going to be an interresting semester at photo lession, cause I've never had an instructor. I always looked at various snaps at fotocommunity.de and tried to take up some of the styles and techniques which i liked.
So I'm looking for to gain new aspects and views to endeepen me in this field.