HDR

This style of photography is called HDR. To get me started, I had to use a tripod in order for me to make sure that my frames would be the exact same in every shot. I decided to pick a flower and place it in the trash can holder so the wind wouldn’t move the flower. I felt that the trash can holder would create an interesting dynamic and a great contrast with the flower. To create the HDR effect, I took a picture of my flower on every bar throughout the exposure scale, starting at 0. (for example, if you shoot at +1, you have to also shoot -1 and so on).In Photoshop, I merged the selected photos using the "Merge to HDR Pro" tool. This aligned all of my frames together and allowed me to enhance the exposure and adjust the shadows and highlights to make my picture "pop" more.

Panoramic

This style of photography is called "panoramic photography". In order for me to get started, I had to make sure that I had a camera (obviously) and a tripod. The area that I live in made it difficult to make my shot interesting. Practicing the tips and tricks I have learned from my photography class, I made a panoramic of a stop sign, as you see. To get this frame, I took several shots of the sign slowly moving upwards after every frame. After completing my series of shots, I used Photoshop to stitch the frames together. Selecting "photomerge" followed by choosing the "reposition only" button, Photoshop layered all of my images together to create this long vertical image.