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1. I chose this photo of my dad's '65 fastback because of my family's love for cars.

2. I made sure that the main focus was on the car but still emphasized the plane in the background.

3. I edited out a homeless encampment, altered the color, and got rid of a few leaves after I sharpened it.

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1. My subject is turf dancing and this is something I particpate it in that doesnt get alot of apreciation and i wanted to showcase is

2. I wanted it to look dim because i wanted to focus on the dancing so i made it black and white to get the sort of vague effect

3. I made it sort of darker and changed it to black and white and removed the other camera man so you could focus on the dancing

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1. I chose to take a picture of this because getting sushi has always been a tradition for my family. Especially for my birthday, I get it every year and it's something I look forward to.

2. For the placement of this picture I wanted to take it from a side angle. This gave me a better view of the entire meal and wanted a somewhat darker lighting to bring out the colors of these dishes.

3. In photoshop I tried to emphasize the food in the picture and make it brighter than anything else in the picture.

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1. my subject is a tree at the end of a hike that I have been visiting since I was a toddler

2. i wanted to have it look like it was in the sunset when i go there sunset is my favoeret time

3. i made the shadows more intence so it looked brighter

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1. My subject is my dog Buddy, and I chose this photo because he is a big part of our family and he is in his favorite place with his favorite toys that he plays with all of the time.

2. Lighting is near a window on the right side, but Buddy was originally in the middle of the picture, which I adjusted due to Rule of Thirds as well as removing random stuff in the back.

3. In PS, I cropped it, put a mask around Buddy, and then blurred the background to make Buddy stand out better, because I wanted to showcase his happiness. I also adjusted hue/saturation and added more color so that the colorful toys would pop.

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1. My subject is Jordan 3 Pine green shoe because my family is really big on shoes.

2. I just got close to a window so there was more natural lighting while holding the shoe and I was close to some green flowers so it matched the colors.

3. I removed the blur from the original photo and brought the shoe and background more into focus, and brightened the color of the shoes.

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1. I chose this photo because my family as a whole really like, red beans, and rice with cornbread and it has a big history with my family lineage.

2. I made sure to keep the bag in the frame because the orange compliments the color of the cornbread.

3. I cut out the rest of the objects in the photo as I found they diverted your eyes from the main focus point of the photo which is the plate.

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1. My subject is this blue sugar skull my mom bought at a consignment store. (sugar skulls are a part of Mexican culture and are usually seen during Días de los muertos) I am biologically Mexican-American, but my birth parents are white. I appreciate how open my parents are so open to my heritage.

2. I wanted to make the blue color pop more, so I gray scaled the background and added a dark blue airbrush effect around the shadowed side of the sugar skull.

3. I sharpened the image to where the lighter blue lines looked crisp, and added a little gausian blur to the bricks behind it to make sure the focus was entirely on the sugar skull.

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1. My subject is my stuffed lion, Tigey. I chose him because my family gives a different stuffed animal to each child that they keep their whole life.

2. I purposefully put Tigey next to a window during sunset for direct light coming from the left, and I followed the 2/3 rule when taking the photo.

3. I made the backround black and white in Photoshop to emphasize Tigey as the subject, as well as adding a somber, nostalgic, tone.

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1. I Choose this picture of my grandma in Mexico with her garden that she has been taking care for years. This shows my families love for flowers because of her and her big garden she has in Mexico

2. I made sure to make the lighting on this more dark so these flowers can really stand out.

3. I Made this pic because I wanted to include a photo with my grandma and her. This shows her love for the flowers and how she takes care of them. This also shows how beautiful her flowers are.

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1. My subject is starbucks that I often get early in the morning with my family when they are in town. I chose this subject because it isn't often they are able to come to the bay so getting coffee together mean a lot.

2. The choices I made while taking this photo were I had us sit at a table close to a window so that I could get some natrual lighting.

3. In Photoshop, I changed some of the coloring so that I could make it more rich and satisfying to look at.

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1. The subject is my mother and the photo she's holding. I chose her because the ofrenda holds almost exclusively her family.

2. The lighting is coming from the left from a nearby window, the curtains are closed to prevent from the picture being too bright.

3. I made the background achromatic to highlight my subject, I increased hue and saturation to give my subject a red tint that I like. I added subtle brush coloring to highlight colors I liked on my subject, and lastly I made the photo she's holding brighter. I did that last bit because I wanted to highlight the importance of that photo. as it has her mother with HER mother.

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1. My subject is turf dancing and this is something i particpate in and it doesnt get alot of attention and i wanted to showcase.

2. I wanted it to look dim because i wanted you to focus on the dancing soi made it black and white to get the sort of vague effect

3. I made it sort of darker and changed it to black and white and removed the other camera so the dancer would be the main focus

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1) my subject is conchas' which is also known as Mexican pan dulce. I chose this because my grandma makes these for special events and it has been a part of her heritage since she was younger as well.

2) The lighting in the photo came from a regular light, which could've been natural but it was dark outside. You can see the lighting shadow on the table, but I chose to place the object more to the right of the frame instead of left.

3) I made contrast edits the most because I wanted to brighten the colors to make the actual colors pop more. I also added a very faint blue tint.

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1. I chose this photo because I find Marigolds really pretty and my family loves them as well

2. I wanted to make sure the flowers kind of filled up the whole photo so it looks like a bush/bouquet of Marigolds. I feel like it gave the photo more of a fun and complete effect.

3. While using photoshop I wanted to make sure that the orange flowers would stand out the most and be the main focus.

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1. My subject is a Vietnamese sauce and I chose this because it's a traditional sauce my family uses.

2. I chose to take this photo outside for more natural light and I positioned my subject in the middle of the photo.

3. I added saturation to make the subject more visible and reduced the lighting just a little for the same effect.

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1. I chose this photo because of my immediate family's tradition to collect beanie babies. This is one of the many beanie babies in my family's collections.

2. I used this placement and lighting to use make shadows, despite the deep black color of the object. I also made sure to get the tag in the photo, even though it is cut off slightly.

3. I used the unsharpen mask feature to emphasize the shadows and used a tint feature to make a slightly black hue.

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Pizzellias are a traditional italin cookie named after their floral pattern

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I chose Pizzellias because they are the old thing in my family history I have access to since most of my dad's side is lost past my grandpa's life. my mom's family is very itallian and love food. I had miniml control in the lighting due to the kitchen light being broken so I took it away from the sun and near the dining room which had a working light. I had to wait a bit because the cookies are made similair to waffles, in a press but come out very cake like and eventually harden a bit and they turn a darker color. but I was in a rush so I plated them early to photograph them. I made the cookies black and white because it hid the color disfiguration and I love Black in white due to what isn't an addiction to old movies and Ansel Adams.

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1. My subject is my dad's mustang, which has been in my family for a long time.

2. The car was already in a convenient location, and the lighting was right after noon.

3. I changed the color balance, to make the blue of the car pop more. I also adjusted the brightness.

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1. My subject is the ocean and the ocean atmosphere.

2. I tried to photograph in a different way; I tilted my camera and turned my camera a little to the left

3. I added a lot of saturation and vibrance. I also made the highlights yellow and the shadows blue. This was a challenge because I had to try not to make the whole photo look green.

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My subject was a family album. I chose it because it captured my family history best. I used direct lighting for this image because of the shadow it gave the bottom of the book. In Photoshop I changed the basics such as unsharp mask, curves, color balance, and levels. However, the main difference in this project was that I made a mask around the book and made the book black and white.

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1. My subject is a two ruby bracelets. I chose these bracelets because these have been passed down for multiple generations and they are very important. 2. Although i think there isn't enough background i placed them strategically on a carpet in order for them to pop out rather then blending in with the background. 3. Originally the photo looked great but i didn't have the vibrance and color balance it needed. At one point there was two much yellow so i used color balance to fix this. I also increased the vibrance in order to get rid of the more dull parts of the bracelets.

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I chose this picture because my dad's side of the family is from France and when we visit our family we go to Paris. The Eiffel Tower represents France so I thought that it would be a good idea to put the Eiffel Tower as it represents France and my family. I captured this picture during my trip to France this past summer.

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1. My subject was my Grandmother's Bocce Ball set. I chose this object because it is represents my family a lot and it has been passed down for several generations.

2. I used direct lighting for this image because it is directly underneath a light source and there is a slight shadow on the side.

3. In Photoshop I made the background black and white because I just felt like it suited the photo.

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My subject is a cowboy hat. I chose this subject because it represents my culture and that my grandpa wears one every time he goes out into public. I chose natural lighting from the sun because it is the best form of lighting. I chose to change the brightness to give more of a darker look and make the green of the tree pop out more to give a good background.

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1. My subject medals.I choose medals because everyone in my family has done a sport in the past or is currently doing sports.

2. I tried to lighten the photo a bit to let the sun appear.

3. In photoshop i tried to sharpen the photo and fix the color and make it alittle more dark/dense.

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1. I chose to take a picture of my family walking through the redwoods because this redwood grove is one that we visit a lot all together. I have many pictures of us in the same place from years ago and this is from the most recent time that we went.

2. For this photo I wanted the light to be coming in through the trees and brighten up the picture. I tried to take the picture from my eye level so that it was in my POV.

3. I used photoshop to make the green trees and blue sky more vibrant as well as cropping it to focus more on my family as the subjects.

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This is a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge. The reason I chose this is because our family comes to San Francisco very often. I ensured the lighting was perfect and I captured enough of the bridge to make an impact. I made the bridge more vibrant and cropped the picture to show less sky.

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1. My subject is a wall of family photos that hang in my house. I chose this subject because these photos show important moments in my family's life.

2. I wanted to take this picture from an angle that shows the photos getting smaller as they get further away. This shows the passage of time and memories that these pictures represent.

3. I decided to make a mask that made the background of the photos yellow. I associate the color yellow and these photos with happiness and light. I also made a slight gradient from left to right to emphasize the angle of the photo.

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1 my subject is this toy car with a radio inside. i chose this because my dads dads grampa gave him this car and since then it has been passed down.

2 I definitely think I could've gotten a better background for it. but choose this a my background because I wanted to look like a real car but I still wanted it to look like a real car.

3 the sun light on the tail of the car kinda messed with the black and white background mixing with the seawash color of the car making it look not good. i tryto dim the light as much as I could with ut making it look bad. other than that I did mess with some other stuff to make the car stand out more but still look natural to the photo.

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1. My subject was about my native american culture and in this picture its a framed picture of my two brothers that sits on my mantle complemented with an abalone shell with sage inside and two candles for each brother and on the far left its a candle of mother mary holding a rosary and on the close right it's a cross with the name Hope written on it which was my great grandmothers name, and I chose this subject because it allowed me to learn more about my culture then I had already known.

2. I chose the placement of this picture because I did not want the picture to just be placed right in the middle and just straight forward so I brought my camera to the right a little bit and added some space to the top of the screen. And lighting made it more dim and not so bright to show the calmness and peacefulness this place of my home brings me.

3. The changes I made in photoshop were, adding more blue hue and more vibrance to the picture so the abalone shell would pop more, so you can see the important object in the photo.

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1. My subject is a rose and I decided to choose that as my image because when I was younger, my late grandmother would always cut my sisters and I roses for us from her garden

2. The lighting was mainly natural lighting, and I happened to stumble upon it during a walk and it inspired me to submit it as my image

3. I slightly altered the lighting of the image, the curves, the levels, and the background.

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I chose to take a of my family's relics and things passed down from my family's cabinet because all the items in here represent my family. For this photo, I wanted to emphasize the items in the cabinet, especially the items that were glass. I used Photoshop to make the cabinet and the relics brighter and clearer to see.

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1. I chose this subject because for me it really expresses the theme family heritage! The Marigolds represent my hispanic side and the ways we honor our ancestors and family members that have passed on, and the Florida Water isn't only a cologne but in Caribbean culture is known as a protecting liquid.

2. The choices I made in positioning and lighting was to take this in front of the sunny trees in my backyard and make it so that the pattern of the Cologne went with the background but even though the Cologne pops with the background, their the same color scheme making the marigolds the center of attention!

3. The changes I made in photoshop was making the shades of green more vibrant, as well as making the flower most to the right the brughtest! Enhancing color, and detail :))