City of Winter Haven Post Cards - Project 12
Introduction
Every city has the top places that people would visit if
they happened to stumble into that area or plan a trip. I have chosen the City
of Winter Haven for this project. The City of Winter Haven is small, and most
people have probably never heard of the name. Even though it is one of the
smaller cities in Florida, there are some events, parks, and places that represent
this little hidden treasure.
For this project, we are supposed to create five postcards
that tell a story and represent a specific audience. I have chosen five beautiful
pictures that represent Winter Haven. When
I was assigned this, I had a few of these in mind because I visit them from
time to time.
City Of Winter Haven Post Cards
Postcard 1
I created two masks for this photo, the subject and the
background.
For the subject, I increased the contrast by 21, the highlights
by 61, the shadows by 25, the whites by 3, the blacks by 25, the temperature by
42, the texture by 32, the saturation by 3, the clarity by 25, the dehaze by 32,
and the sharpness by 20.
For the background, I decreased the whites by -20 and increased
the temperature by 40, the texture by 18, the clarity by 13, and the dehaze by
15.
For the overall picture, I shifted it horizontally by .7, cropped
it, removed the powerlines and two lamp posts from the background with the content-aware
remove tool, added a patch of grass with the spot heal tool, and increased the
texture by 32, and the dehaze by 18.
Postcard 2
Winter Haven Library
I created 2 masks for the photo, the subject and the
background.
For the subject, I increased the contrast by 23, the highlights
by 26, the whites by 37, the temperature by 18, the saturation by 32, the
texture by 21, the clarity by 21, and the sharpness by 23. I decreased the hue
by -4.9.
For the background, I increased the saturation by 15, the
texture by 54, the clarity by 16, the dehaze by 13, and the sharpness by 8. I
decreased the whites by -13.
For the overall photo, I cropped the picture, removed the
tower and car with the content-aware tool, and increased the texture by 20, the
clarity by 14, and the vibrance by 19.
Postcard 3
Winter Haven Saturday Market
I created 2 masks for this photo, the subject and the
background.
For the subject, I increased the texture by 35, the clarity
by 15, and the sharpness by 13. I decreased the exposure by -.17, the hue by
-37, the shadows by -18, the whites by -38, the blacks by -23, and the dehaze
by -13.
For the background, I increased the texture by 35, the clarity
by 35, the dehaze by 20, the sharpness by 33, and the saturation by 28. I
decreased the exposure by -.65, the highlights by -76, the shadows by -74, the
whites by -23, and the hue by -11.4.
For the overall picture, I cropped it a bit, and I used the
spot heal tool to add some of the tree back to the top left-hand corner. Then I
increased the temperature by 9, the texture by 11, and the clarity by 11.
Postcard 4
Winter Haven Courtyard
I created 2 masks for this photo, the subject and the
background.
For the subject, I increased the temperature by 38, the
texture by 23, the clarity by 9, the dehaze by 15, and the sharpness by 20. I
decreased the highlights by -20, the shadows by -18, and the blacks by -21.
For the background, I increased the texture by 25, the
clarity by 26, the dehaze by 21, the temperature by 15, and the sharpness by
20. I decreased the whites by -15.
For the overall photo, I increased the texture by 44, the clarity
by 11, the dehaze by 9, the temperature by 11, and the sharpness by 24. I also
used curves.
Postcard 5
Legoland Florida
This was my favorite shot. For this photo, I added 3 masks,
the sky, the subject, and the background.
For the sky, I decreased the whites by -9, and I increased
the texture by 20, the clarity by 16, and the dehaze by 28.
For the subject, I increased the contrast by 20, the shadows
by 21, the whites by 21, the temperature by 37, the texture by 42, the clarity
by 37, the dehaze by 37, and the sharpness by 18.
For the background, I increased the texture by 20, the
clarity by 18, the dehaze by 18, and the sharpness by 16. I decreased the highlight
by -21, and the shadows by -11.
For the overall photo, I increased the whites by 20 the
blacks by 42, the texture by 19, the clarity by 16, the dehaze by 19, and the sharpness
by 14. I decreased the highlights by -25, and the shadows by -12.
All of the postcards are 7x by 5x, and they have an artistic
profile 5 and a -11-vignette applied to them. The typography that I chose is
Brush Script MT. I thought that it looked elegant, and inviting, and it went
well with my images along with the white text. For the border, I used a 4.0 Gaussian
blur, and I added a white stroke on the inside to make it pop.
Conclusion
All of my photos were planned. I knew where I wanted to go
shoot, and I knew what I wanted to take pictures of. I planned it throughout
the week. There are many places in Winter Haven that people are unaware of. I
am sure that after this post some people will have a better idea of places to visit and what represents this small city. I learned a lot from
making these postcards. I realized that I needed to take more photos and take
my time. I also realized that you need to leave some room to add a border so
that you have the exact image inside of it, otherwise, some of your images will
look cut off. I still have a lot to learn, but I enjoyed this assignment, and I
am getting better with Lightroom Classic and Photoshop.
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Postcards Revamped
After doing this project and receiving feedback, I wanted to revamp my original postcards. This is how they turned out!
Postcard 1
Postcard 2
Postcard 3
Postcard 4
Postcard 5
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