A Day in the Life

This is a picture of clothes pins in my laundry room for the “Day in the Life” assignment. The objective of this assignment was to adjust a setting on the camera and edit the photo using a border and Photoshop adjustments. For this particular photo I changed the white balance on the camera to the fluorescent setting due to the fact that the only source of light in the room is fluorescent bulbs. During editing this photo I first added a black feather border to make the corners as dark as possible. I then used the levels adjustment to darken the blacks and lighten the midtones, leaving the background almost entirely black. Next, I used the hue/saturation adjustment to decrease the saturation of reds and blues in the clothes pins. Lastly, I used the channel mixer to further decrease the amount of red in the clothes pins.

Judging the final product I am content with how the editing techniques affected the photo. I feel a strength of this photo are the vivid colors of the clothes pins. It catches one’s eye and gives the viewer something to focus on. The colors of the clothes pins were successfully enhanced by Photoshop adjustments. I feel a weakness of this photo is the background. Though it is dark enough so that items in the background do not take one’s focus off of the clothes pins, there still remain subtle outlines of objects. If I could go back and re-edit this photo I would darken the background further so that little or nothing could be seen in the background, making the photo more dramatic.