wk2

      For this (our second) week, we had the task of actually choosing the site and the project, that we are going to work on this semester. And, when we did that, we had to start thinking a little about, how our project (building) is going to look like. We had to start brainstorming and draw our first conceptual designs.

      Only now, we could really start working on the given assignment. Which was to photograph our idea on the paper and experiment how to improve the picture in Adobe Lightroom (adjusting the “temperature”, exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, etc...). And the second part of our assignment was to photograph a sequence of pictures of our site, and then merge them together into one panoramic photo of the site. For this we used Adobe Photoshop.

    Here is how I approached the first part: improving the representation of the conceptual design.

First I intentionally took a picture, that wasn't shoot from directly above and is therefor in perspective and it has a vanishing point. And I placed only one light source from the left.

Now I started improving..

First I used the Transform panel. I changed the value to the point, that the vertical lines were perfectly aligned. That way I got rid of perspective look and the vanishing point.

Now I had to fix the darker right side. For that I've used the Gradient Tool:

Here is the result of the Gradient Tool:

And now for the finishing touch I had to crop the picture, so that there isn't any insignificant white space around it. 

For that I used the Crop Tool:

After that I just played and experimented a little with some of the other functions and 

this is the final result:

And here are my results of making panoramic pictures:

Even though neither one of these two panoramic pictures represent my project location, I understand the concept and will definitely use Photoshops Photomerge function in the future, for creating stunning panoramic photos as well as for documenting site information for architectural purposes.

      For better understanding of the principals and simply for some extra information regarding this assignment I watched some tutorials. Here is a link to one of them: 

Panorama Tutorial

This was also what I've stumbled on and it was quite fascinating.

      I personally didn’t find this weeks assignment to hard to do and I actually enjoyed doing it. But I have to say, that I was a bit confused at the beginning, when I lunched Lightroom for the first time. I sort of got lost when I tried to add some new files to the library, but then after a few minutes it got quite easy. You just have to find some kind of connection to the other Adobe programs, because they are all practically developed to simplify the user experience.