Michael Champion

I loathe self-portraits. Specifically, of me. I'd much rather be behind the camera rather than in front of it. So much so, that over the course of several days trying to draft an idea for this - I stared at a wall, then a ceiling, then just tuned out. In the end, I conclusively decided that I cannot, nor particularly care to, create a self-portrait of my own device. Instead, I collected images of me taken by others...often against my wishes. However, in reflecting on this, I feel that this is a better representation of myself through others than what I could hope to accomplish with photographic self-reflection.
Technically, there is not much to this image. It's a collection of shots over the course of six years showing a variety of ways other's have seen me. I simply compiled them in a somewhat representative way. The specifics of the images are that I cleaned out noise, various aberrations, and tried (my best at least) to enhance the image containing fire - taken on film, and then scanned...by a gerbil. In the end, I added borders for some compartmentalization. Oh, and made it black and white and simulated ~1600ISO film. I do miss film...
Lastly, I -loathe- self-portraits of myself.  

Ashley Kesweder

During the drafting stages of this project, I knew that I wanted to have myself in the portrait and that I wanted my eye to somehow have a dominance in the photo. I took many photographs and played around with them a bit, but I was unhappy with my results. Those photos all had my eye wide open, setting a more joyful and optimistic tone. After being disappointed with those, I went back and took this picture. I used a larger aperture, f/5, for a narrower depth of field to still give me the focus I wanted on my eye. Having my eyes closed and my head titled down, the mood is instantly altered.
I took the raw image into Photoshop and got a little crafty, I suppose. I took my image and darkened the highlights quite a bit and then completely chopped up the image to give it this collage-like feel. My life doesn't always fall perfectly into place. It has it's ups and downs and it's complications; I wanted to portray that in this piece. Things cannot always be put into one perfectly square picture that's full of bright colors and straight edges. There are holes, shadows and jagged lines, that is what I show here.

Nick Montz

For my self portrait I tried to choose a picture that best represents my personality. I enjoy being outside, and I am never really in a serious mood. It is important to me to not take anything too seriously and try to have fun with my life.

Self Portrait

For this attempt I chose a single image of me holding a light source. I added different brush strokes to the light to make it look stronger and more dispersing, and so it will cover most of my hands. 

The background I did with few different filters, color layers and blending modes, which I experiment with until I got to a pleasing result. This result consist of broken diagonal lines that add tension to the composition, and lighter values in the center of the frame to bring the focus to the figure. 

Who's world is this

 I was really just messing around until i got the whole end of the world concept going. Then I decided to  change whatever was actually on my ipod to nas's Who's world is this. Then of course came the explosions and supernova's. My style is very colorful and flashy, and I like my music rowdy and passionate. So basically this is what it's like to be me, you own the world and your music makes buildings explode.

Ashley Bennett

I chose to do a self portrait that, besides being a photograph of my present self, was also a small glimpse of my future self. I added both an opaque forest and the ocean in the background (where I want to go) to cover my dorm room wall (where I am now). I also adjusted the curves to create greater contrast and the color balance to add warmth.

Haylee Schiavo

I chose to do a self portrait that reflects both my style of art and my contemplative personality. I know the light bulb is cliche, but I thought the background and colors went well with the photo of me. I don't tend to make photos that are highly realistic when using photoshop. I like to make them look flawless and as if they could be real, but I lean towards a more fictional reality.

My self portrait shows how I lean towards images that do not depict cheerful expressions and moods.

Haley Self-Portrait

My self portrait focuses on senses of isolation and separation. I did minimal editing in photoshop, as I like to keep my photography untainted by computers. I played with the curves and blended in a distracting orb of light. Overall the work was done in camera with a remote and a flash.

Haleigh Klandrud Raster Exercise

For this project I was mainly focusing on the idea of not being the same person all the time. I tend to change my personality to best suit the people I am around, so in this picture I decided to use a long shutter speed and moved during the exposure to get the effect of multiple faces. To edit it I used curves to give the image the feel I wanted and turned it black and white using the gradient map tool. I also added an extra ghosty eye using the clone stamp tool.

Matthew Fahnestock

I wanted to take a self portrait without actually being in the photo myself. I decided to photograph some of my clothes, everything in my pockets, and some objects on my desk. These items are all a good representation of me.

Ryan Evans Raster Exercise

I used "hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil" to represent that there are things in my life that I wish I could take back. I took three bracketed images and combined them in Photoshop using HDR.

Brandon Beren

Raster self portrait Brandon Beren -

Straight self portrait (photo)

Process:
First, I copied the background to get an unlocked version of the original photo to work with. I wanted to go with a darker, little more morbid feel, so I first made a hue adjustment layer to bring down the saturation, checked colorize with a blue hue, and lowered the opacity.

I wanted to make it bluer around y left eye so I raised the opacity of the layer slightly and filled the entire mask with a mid-high gray shade and took a white brush to totally reveal the blue hue around the eye.

Next, I made another copy of the original photo and applied a Gaussian blur to the layer. I applied a layer ask completely full of white to reveal the layer and filled most of the face closer to the camera with white to hide the blurred part of the image to give it a macro look and feel.

Going on, I too the blurred layer and copied it as another layer, further blurred it and went into the liquefy tool to warp it around the eye. I then made a curves adjustment layer clipped to this layer to over expose it. I then painted over the eye in the layer mask of the blurred layer to only reveal certain parts of the image I wanted.

For the vignette high contrast look, I simply made a new layer, used a radial black and white gradient and set it to color burn at 44% opacity.

Last but not least... For the old photo scratches... I made a new layer, filled it with white, rendered using the fibers filter with low variance and high strength, made a selection of the black fibers with the magic wand, saved it as a layer mask, saved the layer mask in the channels palette, hid the selection, and hand painted with a brush in parts of the imaged over the eye mostly and randomly other places to give visual interest.

That's it. The reason I made the portrait like this is because I recently, before the semester, went blind in m left eye. Its mostly better now, but I'm stuck with 20/70 vision for the rest of my life in the eye... Better then worst than 20/200 though.

picon_rasterexer

When it comes to my work I am trying to change perceptions on what the viewer already considers to be “normal” or “actual”. Not necessarily wanting to change beliefs but mainly rearranging what we take for granted around us and presenting them in an exaggerated or obvious way that grabs our attention. This picture was taken with cardboard cutouts and me standing further away from the camera to make it proportional.

Taylor Phillips Raster Exercise

For my project I shot at a park near my house. My primary goal was to show how the color and lighting of the scene changed over the course of a day. Secondarily, I wanted to show some of the people who passed through that area of the park during different times of he day.

Nelson Raster Exercise

Man vs Nature... In my interpretation of Man vs Nature I choose to show more of the beginning of big cities. When we, as humans, begin to build cities we usually have to clear out the surrounding obstacles which for the most part are trees. Although we are destroying the surrounding beauty, we are creating something that is just as important and good for the survival of our civilization.

This deff isnt as good as it could be but i crashed 3 times ate and did this b4 my next class but this is pretty much man versus nature of man i suppose which would be kids in gasmasks running from an atomic bomb

Tara Grey- Raster Exercize

For the theme of man vs. nature, I did a girl with tiger features, in the jungle with two fellow tigers. The image serves as a reminder to how often humans neglect our connection to the world around us, and the fact that we too are merely animals.

Kelsey Meyer, Kicks and Skylines

For this pic I wanted to make the connection from man to earth. Using layers and multiple images of roots I connected the runner to the ground he runs on, giving the composition of a feeling of stress.

For this pic of NYC I turned the urban jungle into a real forest. Adding layers of trees and grass I made the intimidating city of New York look smaller and more rural.

I hope you like..

Taylor Phillips Raster Exercise

The point of this image is that Urban expansion and growth, and all of the things that come with it, have led to the destruction the environment and the natural habitats of many animals.