Garden Photo Black and White

Original Garden Photo

       This is the original photo that I used to create the three different black and white photos.

B&W Adjustment Layer

      I used the adjustment layer for this picture. I lowered the blues and greens and I bumped up the magenta to make the lines in the flowers stand out more.

Channels

Gradient

    For this photo I chose to use the green channel because the red channel lightened it up to much and the blue channel was way to dark for it. I then applied the green channel to the photo.

       I was playing around with the lightness and darkness on the gradient map. I tried making the flowers to pop from the background 

Chess Piece

          In class we were working on realistic drawing. We started off with drawing tea pots and light bulbs. After we go the hang of shading, contrast and value we started a new assignment. We got to choose any chess piece and draw it realistically, after we sketched out 4 possible thumbnail backgrounds for the piece. After we would choose the best background for the chess piece.
         
           I chose clouds because I thought it would look peaceful and it wouldn't distract your eyes form the actual chess piece. The background does have a bit of movement because the clouds form a swirl which moves your eye around the paper. This difficulty of this art assignment for me was not as difficult as it seemed, I enjoyed this assignment.