Polar Panoramas

     These are my two finished  Polar Panorama's. The very first step to making these was to learn all about them, so we could choose a perfect location to create another composite image. Just like with our Spherical Panorama, we took 10-15 perfect images with a 10-15% overlap. The next step was to use PhotoMerge to combine all of our pictures, and to rotate our new image 180 degrees. That step is the only thing that differs from my earlier post about Spherical Panoramas. Then we used the same Polar Coordinates filter to turn it into these masterpieces.
   
      Once we were done with our Polar Panos, we went out and took beautiful photos of ourselves , and used the Quick Selection Tool  to select just our portraits, and not the backgrounds. Then we pasted ourselves onto our favorite Polar Panos, and created a shadow by copying the picture of ourselves on. After that, we brought the hue down to black, and brought the opacity down to 40%. Next we feathered it, pasted it to a background and saved to our files. The final step was to turn it in, although you probably won't have to do that!

Spherical Panoramas

Spherical

This is my final spherical panorama!!! We made three overall, however we only turned two in. The very first step was to take 15 images to create a Composite 360 degree scene with an even amount of sky and ground. Then, after some editing in Camera Raw, we took our pic's into Adobe Photoshop and turned them into a perfect panorama. Next, we stretched them into perfect rectangles, and cropped them to fit. We changed the size of the images so they became perfect squares. Then we used Photoshop's Polar Coordinate filter to change them.

After that, we used the quick selection tool to select our spheres. We compressed the selection, and then we feathered it. Using the blur tool, the stamp tool, and a few others, we touched it up, and made it fabulous. Once we had touched it up a bit, the seam from connecting the panorama was
gone! With a background from the paint bucket tool behind it, it was ready to be turned in!!!

Photomontages

These are my two finished GT photomontages, inspired by artist David Hockney, who invented these images. They added abstract to plain old photography, which creates interest. We started this process by taking pictures from different perspectives and naming and editing them in Adobe Bridge and Camera Raw. Them, we took the "cooked" (Edited) photos in to photoshop and glued them back together. What we finished with were these great images. (We being Mr. Sanderl's GT class)

After finishing these up with a background, we covered them in a four point stroke, and then did another one. Well at least I did. I didn't like the first one I did, because I feel like it didn't really express me. So when Mr. Sanderl showed us a documentary about David Hockney, I was hooked. That's probably the best I have ever done on a project so far.

I took my camera and took a lot of pictures of my sister coming down the stairs, and just knew that that was perfect. Hockney always says to tell a story with the photomontages. Well I sure think I accomplished it! When I heard the critique on my "Joiner" as Hockney used to call them, I was so proud of what I had done. I had become an artist.

ALL ABOUT ME!!!!!!!!!!

Before After!!!

Hi, my name is Maddie Hoesel, if you didn't already know that from the title of my blog, and my URL. This blog is my way to share all of the fabulous, fantastic, projects we do in GT media. But I talk enough about GT in my GT Portfolios. What's this one labeled! Personal Updates!!! So it's all about me. I guess.

I go to school at Kapa'a Middle School, on Kauai. Yes I do live in Hawaii. I am the luckiest girl in the world. I live in the most beautiful place on earth, and I have a wonderful happy family and a cozy house. I was born here and have been raised here and will most likely live here till my senior year. I love school, and it a very important part of my life. I'm one of the geeks you pass in the hall and see carrying the big stack of books and the huge bag and is always bickering with her friends about whether or not Pluto should be a dwarf planet.

My favorite color is light blue/green, just like the color of the ocean. I love water. Any water, whether it be the ocean, a lake, a waterfall, whatever. I compete on the Mokihana Swim team, and also during the summer paddle canoes for Pu'uwai canoe club. I love the feel of the water rushing past me as I try to crush the enemy with my fabulous speeds. Actually, I just started about three moths ago, so I won't be doing a crushing as of yet. I hope to be a marine biologist when I get older, and I want to build a submarine that can withstand great depths so I can see the midnight zone. That has been my dream for as long as I can remember.

I also love writing, and I especially love cranking out a great story just as the bell rings. I usually write about twice the amount needed in English; just today I wrote 10 pages instead of the required 6 paragraphs. I also love science, except for the fact that my class is a little loud in that subject. Math is harder for me, but I still work hard and do pretty good. I am in honers Math and English at my school, and would be in honors science and social studies, but they don't offer them at my school. I want to go to college, and have already started researching for schools.

A few months ago I decided I wanted to make a difference. I thought about, and in turn rejected, many ideas. However, after thinking and thinking, I decided I should donate my hair to locks of love! It was perfect. I just wasn't sure I would have enough hair! So after going to a salon, and having it measured, I chopped off 10 inches and gave it to a cancer victim. It felt so good to do something for someone like that. So great that I plan on doing it again!  I am going to grow it out and cut it off again!

I have a dog named Dancer, a 16 pound muscle bound terrier mutt who is the sweetest best dog ever. She is black with brown and white spots, and she loves cheese. I also have two cats who go by the names of Yoda and Emmy, one of whom is a very fat, old, grumpy Siamese whom I love to distraction (Yoda). He's big, weighing in at the same as our dog, two times as much as the normal cat does, and who used to go outside and get beat up by cruel neighborhood cats, but being gone for three weeks and loosing an astounding half of his body weight, he no longer goes out, and is back in fighting shape. The other, Emmy, is just barely out of kitten hood, and has too much energy for something with claws. She recently spilled a cup of water on our family keyboard, and we were forced to replace it once keys E, A, D and a few others stopped working. Made it wicked hard to look things up, and of course, blog. She constantly breaks things, and picks fights with everyone, but is too cute to get in trouble, the little devil. She is a tabby. All our animals are either former residents of the Humane Society shelter, or were saved from it. All cats have claws intact. (we believe it is cruel to De-claw)

We also have a lot of fish, from guppy's in the kitchen tank to our pride and joy, our golden talapia's  in their tank upstairs on the front balcony/porch, and they fertilize our homegrown strawberries and kale. We use hydroponics to grow our produce and we built the tank and it's frame ourselves. For those of you who don't know what hydroponics is, it a form of gardening using water instead of dirt. We also have an orange tree, a papaya  tree, banana trees, and lots more.

Thanks, this was me!!! I will see you later with more posts.

Magazine Cover

This is my fabulous magazine cover that I created in the 2013 fall semester at Kapa'a Middle School!!! We started out with a blank template in Photoshop. (Of course) Then, we wrote our titles, our article teasers, and our headlines. Then we went out and took pictures of ourselves. The pictures would relate to our covers. Then we cooked them up in Camera Raw, and they were on their way.

Next, we worked in Photoshop, putting our pictures in. Then it gets interesting. Our next step would be to do a contour of ourselves, which is really just a fancy way to say trace over the outline. After that we had to use the paint brush tool to add color, and to make it look more real. After warping our backgrounds, we changed the hue to match our color scheme, and we were done!