Tasteful Typography

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Themed Image Series

For my tasteful typography themed images, I first tried to go with a grunge look. However, no matter how hard I tried it just didn’t look professional so I decided to go with a cleaner look. I used a 48% opacity black box behind my text to create a little bit of unity. I also used mostly one font just in a few different ways. Sometimes it was bolded, all caps, all lowercase or italicized.

Title: Apple Garamond, Oldstyle; Perpetua Titling MT, Serif

Body: Apple Garamond, Oldstyle

Caption: Apple Garamond, Oldstyle

Reflectors

Here are a few portraits I took using a reflector. It was tricky getting the reflector right on the face, and figuring out which one to use.

Diffuser:

This is one I took in class, I used a diffuser to get rid of the strange shadows that were on her face. The diffuser helped soften her face. The diffuser was above her head to the left.

White:

For this one I used the white side of the reflector. It didn’t do a whole lot that was noticeable, but it did even the light out a little bit. I’m a little sad that her face isn’t completely in focus, but I’ll get better! The reflector was low to the right.

Before:

Here is a picture without any reflectors.

After- Gold:

This picture was taken with a gold reflector. I actually had her hold it beneath her face to see what effect it had, and it actually lit her face up really well.

Tutorial: Setting Up Lightroom Images

This tutorial talks about how to set up your photos for editing in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Lightroom is one of the best applications out there for mass photo editing. There are so many options that you can take advantage of when using Lightroom. In this tutorial, we will touch on supported file types, key shortcuts, importing photos, fixing white balance, sorting photos with flags and sorting photos with filters. This is all of the basic “stuff” you need to know before diving in to editing each photo with brightness, levels, contrast, etc. I have used my own knowledge, tips from my sister (who has worked with Lightroom for 5 years), Adobe’s List of Keyboard Shortcuts and Adobe’s List of Supported File Types to create this tutorial.

Check out my print tutorial below! Click here for a PDF file.

Composition: Perspective of 12

This was a fun project, but at first I had no idea what to take pictures of. It wasn’t quite light enough outside, and I really didn’t want to shoot in the snow, so I thought I would shoot something inside. I have this really awesome old Mickey phone, so I thought I would make that my focus. It was actually pretty hard getting 12 different views that I liked, some compositions just looked weird but luckily I ended up with 12 pretty good ones. I didn’t wipe the dust off of the phone because I thought it might look “older” that way, or at least add some interest.

Focus: Deep and Shallow Depth

This week we focused on deep depth of field (more in focus) and shallow depth of field (less in focus).

Deep Depth of Field:

Pillars: 01-27-15; 5:30pm; Rexburg, Idaho; 26mm; f 11; 1/3; Nikon D5000

For this shot, I bent down to the ground and rested my knee on the ground so that the camera would be stable since I didn’t have a tripod and it was cloudy outside. In editing I bumped up the exposure and adjusted the temperature a little so it wasn’t so blue (even though it still is a little).

Deep Depth of Field:

Mud on My Bumper: 01-27-15; 8:00pm; Rexburg, Idaho; 38mm; f 11; 1/10; Nikon D5000

This shot was late at night, so it was really tricky to get in focus. I again, knelt to the ground and stabilized the camera against my leg. I had to lighten this shot a lot and because I had to bump up the ISO, the shot is a little grainy. I also added more contrast to the shot. The mud just looked so cool on this truck.

Shallow Depth of Field:

Ice Tracks: 01-27-15; 5:50pm; Rexburg, Idaho; 52mm; f 10; 1/5; Nikon D5000

I really liked this shot. There is a pipe in my parking garage that has been leaking for awhile, so a truck must have driven in the slush and then the slush froze. I had to place my camera on the ground and manually focus it. But because I didn’t want to bend all the way down to see if it focused where I wanted, I kept changed the focus and snapping a picture, hoping that at least one would be focused the way I wanted. Luckily I got one! I really only bumped the exposure and the contrast up.

Shallow Depth of Field:

Winston Pie: 01-24-15; 7:00pm; Rexburg, Idaho; 55mm; f 5.6; 1/25; Nikon D5000

This shoot was really fun. My roommate’s sister has an adorable english bulldog and I decided to take some pictures of him. I really just followed him around for a half hour and kept taking pictures of him. It was fairly dark in the room and I had to turn the shutter speed up a little, so I was surprised my shots even came out. I didn’t adjust much with this shot, I mostly just bumped up the contrast.

Shallow Depth of Field:

Winston Blur: 01-27-15; 10:00pm; Rexburg, Idaho; 44mm; f 5.3; 1/5; Nikon D5000

This photo was actually a mistake, I tried to take the picture but it never focused so I thought it wouldn’t be a good one. But after seeing it on my computer, I fell in love with it. I really liked Winston blurred out with just a small bit of carpet in focus. I pulled the exposure up and gave it some contrast.

New Additions.

Deep Depth of Field:

Deep Depth of Field:

Shallow Depth of Field:

Shallow Depth of Field:

Shallow Depth of Field:

Shallow Depth of Field:

Motion: Freeze and Blur

Here are a couple motion capture photos I took by manipulating the shutter speed.

Blur Motion:

Dealing; 01-20-15; 9pm; Rexburg; 40mm; f 36; 0.6; Nikon D5000

Blur Motion:

Fireflies; 01-20-15; 6pm; Rexburg; 24mm; f 25; 3; Nikon D5000

Freeze Motion:

Shuffle; 01-20-15; 9pm; Rexburg; 40mm; f 5.3; 1:1000; Nikon D5000

Freeze Motion:

Berry; 01-20-15; 8pm; Rexburg; 52mm; f 5.6; 1:250; Nikon D5000

A new addition. Blur Motion:

 

Visual Focus

When creating this photo book spread, I wanted the overall look to be clean and readable. I started with my favorite photo of my most recent shoot and made that a full page image. On the next page I tried to keep the lines even. I made all edges of the photos even so that your eye is drawn from one side of the page to the other. To unify the two pages, I made sure that the fence photo had a similar color than that of one on the next page (the pinecone photo). To also unify the text throughout the spread, I pulled the yellow color from the leaf picture and used it with text on both pages. The black background gives a very sophisticated look which fits into the “clean” look I was going for. Overall, I think this first design is a good place to start with designing my full book.

Past Photos

Hello! My name is Rebekah Wisniewski and I am from Gaithersburg, Maryland. Gaithersburg is a diamond in the ruff, about 35 minutes away from the beautiful D.C. I often visit D.C. as well as New York City, just a mere 4 hours away. It helps that my brother lives in New York-free lodging! I attend Brigham Young University- Idaho, majoring in Communications with an emphasis in Visual Communications. When off track, I work as a color guard instructor at my old high school. It is fun to be on the other side and at least pretend to be an adult! I also love crafting and trying my hand at anything artsy, no matter how bad I am at it. (Like painting, I’m terrible at painting).

I have always loved photography and art. I started taking pictures on a crappy pink digital camera when I was about 8 years old. I got more serious about art when I got to high school and took various film and digital photography, studio painting and stain glass classes. I narrowed my focus on graphic design and photography and decided to pursue a visual communications degree in college. I have used my DSLR camera for about 6 years, but know there is still much to learn about it. I have used and know the basics of Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign. I have designed a few things such as business cards, posters and fliers for various businesses and groups.

My following photos are all from the past 5 years or so. Some of my photos were taken in Maple Valley, Washington; Jackson Hole, Wyoming; Huntington Beach, California; Seattle, Washington; New York, New York; and Gaithersburg, Maryland. As you can see, I love to travel and document it! For almost every picture I have adjusted the crop, contrast and brightness. The biggest edit I made was in the first photo. It was taken at the 9/11 memorial in New York and I took out all color except for one girl. This was one of the only ways I was able to successfully single out this girl and capture the emotion of the memorial.

Magazine Layout

In starting my replica of a New Era Magazine front cover, 3-page spread, Mormonad, and a back cover I had to first see what is unique that the New Era does. I started out with my front cover. I chose a BYU-I devotional talk as my feature article and 3-page spread article: “I Choose Joy” by Christopher W. Moore. I chose one of my own pictures for the main picture and then made up the other article titles based on titles from previous New Era editions. I chose “New Era” to be in orange because of the orange bracelet in the picture. I also chose yellow as an accent color because it is bright, and the only other colors in the photo are blues, greens, and grays which none are vibrant.

The next step was to create my 3-page spread. I decided to use a sunset silhouette image of teenagers jumping for my spread. I used one of my own pictures that I took as the background, and then made vector images of six teenagers. I also made a vector image of the ground, so that I could cover the trees that were in the picture, but so that I could keep the nice orange color towards the bottom of the picture. With the text, I decided to start it on the second page so that it only interfered with two of the vector people. I continued the background onto the third page so that the reader could tell that the article went on. Details like the lines, placement of the page numbers and the side quote, were taken straight from a previous New Era edition.

For my Mormonad, I decided to use my own picture again and to go with the idea of the “spark of faith”. I read this in a general conference talk given by Dieter F. Uchtdorf. However, in order to make it like other Mormonads, it had to be based off of a scripture, so I chose Alma 32:26-43 which talks about faith being small like a seed, but can grow into understanding.

To finish off my New Era magazine, I chose a back cover from a previous New Era edition that I liked. I decided to copy the layout and the words, but used my own pictures. In order to make all of the pictures look like they belonged together, I had to adjust some brightness and contrast on some of the pictures. I decided to go with an orange theme for the back, because it mimics the orange from the front cover. This means that I had to make my own film strip icons, which I vectored. Then I made a barcode on the bottom left corner, to make it look like a real New Era. I vectored the bars so that they could be different sizes. The fonts are not perfect, especially with the logo for “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints” but I found the font that looked the closest.

 

Inspirational Poster

The inspirational message that I wanted to communicate comes from a talk that Dieter F. Uctdorf gave in his October General Conference address. He said, “At times we may even feel insignificant, invisible, alone, or forgotten. But always remember—you matter to Him!” At first I started with a woods background, and the whole quote on the poster.

I decided to change the background and make it a brighter picture. I also decided to cut down the quote to just “You matter to Him”. I also changed the fonts so that it flowed a little better. I went through many versions of different colors, but decided to finish it with a bright yellow and white.