Monochromatic Grid:

For this grid I used a photo of flames, which I moved while taking, and a photo of a stained glass window in a church. i used the same hi contrast black and white preset for them. I chose this grid because I liked the patter the negative space around the photos made, and also liked the pattern created. I thought something about it made it it look similar to prints on a light table.

 

Warm Color Scheme Grid:

These are also photos of a fire. For the circular ones, which are shown above in the monochromatic grid, I exposed for about 5 seconds while moving the camera in a circle. The others were taken with a two second exposure, a small f-stop at 13 and an ISO at 500 so the camera would register the light however the aperture would remain a small, which prevents light from the background flooding in.

Cool Color Scheme:

These are photos of the clouds at seven in the morning near Hood River. I took this with a very short exposure of 1/8000, because the light was bright enough, however to compensate for the shadows of midmorning I turned the ISO way up to 2500. Because I had the ISO in the medium to high range and a short exposure, I chose to use a large aperture at f1.4 which isn't very well advised with landscape photography, however the softness of the clouds ended up looking very cool. I cropped the sky down to a very small area of the sky, the greener of the photos being later in the morning. These were taken from the same location but at different times. In my grid I experimented with mirroring these photos and created a pattern that almost looked like a painting.

Mood Photo 1:

I chose this photo to convey a mood. This is taken off the St. Johns Bridge, which is in a fairly industrial stretch of the river. I always find that images of factories and mills tend to look sad, and to maximize this effect I turned the saturation of happy colors down but not all the way: green, red, magenta, purple, aqua. I exclude yellow from this because I feel that the greener hues of yellow are more nostalgic and dirty looking, therefore I changed the hue of the yellow in the image. I used the brush tool to darken the skies and water, leaving an industrial, sad feeling.

Mood Photo 2:

This photo is of my brother Jake and friend Conner searching for kindling in the forest. I decided since this was a candid, and a camping scene, I would try to convey a nostalgic mood. For this photo, I increased the warmth but since the photo was taken in a cold area, I compensating by tinting it green. I saturated the yellows and greens, while desaturating the rest to add an aged look. I used a vignette to add an old photo effect and decreased the contrast to digitally fade the colors. I also decreased the luminance to add to that effect.

Other Grids:

These grids are some I did but did not fit into a specific category. The first is of my dog, where I took photos of him while he sat very still and stitched them together. I used a split tone of each one to color the backgrounds and add interest to the photo. Once I had the grid saved I desaturated his face so it would return to the natural charcoal color. The second is a grid where I edited one and created a preset from it in order to add unity. I did fine tune them so it would work on all of them but because they are all the same day in the same place the general preset added unity to them.