The top picture is a photo I captured of my son Elijah on portrait mode on my iPhone. He is enjoying tummy time and just really grasping the concept of holding his head up. Because the photo was taken on the bed, it had a lot of extra things on the sides and showed the wrinkles in the cover. I couldn’t really see his face very well so I wanted to fix that as well. Now I’m biased but I think he has the most gorgeous eyes ever and looking at the photo I knew I wanted to zoom in on his face and create some depth there.
With my cropped photo at the bottom, I used the rule of thirds and placed his face at the left intersection. I also used the vignette feature on the iPhone to darken the edges of the photo. to me the dark edges brings my eyes to the center of the photo. I also changed the filter and applied the vivid cool filter on the photo which gives it almost a blue overtone and dims down the light in the photo creating a more softer photo.
Hello Channetta,
First off what a great picture of this child. The original picture lacks focus and a real understanding of how the picture is supposed to be. You did a great job of changing the focus to the child and changing the colors of the picture adding even more focus on the main subject on the picture. You did a great job using the rule of thirds. The iPhone has made editing photos a lot easier and a lot more convenient for everyone to use. Changing the crop, adding a filter, or even using portrait mode to make quick pictures look even better.
Hi Channetta,
It is wonderful to know we cross paths after the Information Architecture class last year. First of all, Elijah is so adorable. But the first image does not focus on him as there are other distractions in the picture. Although the portrait mode in iPhone helps adjust the focus, it looks like the picture needs better composition and cropping. In your second image i.e. the cropped image I see a great usage of the rule of thirds and therefore the focal point in the image is the child. I also like that you used the vignette to darken the edges which further increases the focal point on the child. Overall great work!!