Blog Post #4 

Mitchell Baldwin 

1/29/18

Comm 1103 

This article titled "A time for love" has a very nice layout. It contains a clear dominant photo, which does its job in illustrating what the captions talk about. The pictures also have similar spacing all through out and the captions have the right amount of space with the right font size. Even though there are not many photos on the page, the pictures that are there express different ideas, instead of having three similar photos placed together. 

Although this article has very good, even spacing in between the photos used, it has very bad elements in it. This photo story does not have a dominant photo at all and many of the pictures seem to be illustrating the exact same ideas. The text is all put into one spot instead of spread evenly through out the page. 

Cropping Out Distracting People

Cropping Out Distracting People 

January 24th, 2018 

Mitchell Baldwin 

Since we were asked to use any picture we would like to remove distracting elements for, I decided to use this picture of Dwight Howard dunking in the 2009 dunk contest. 

As you can tell in this photo, there are quite a few distracting elements. These include the lights in the background, the cameraman directly behind Dwight, and the three or four heads in the bottom right corner. I was not very confident that I would be able to remove the lights in the background, so I decided to try my hand at removing the distracting people. 

To do this I used the Clone Stamp Tool. I outlined the crowd, which is what I wanted to clone, then I drew over the camera guy and the NBA player's head. This created an effect that made the camera man and the NBA players disappear. 

This is the finished product. The clone stamp tool removed the distracting people, and made the crowd look much bigger than it did originally. We have not learned about this tool yet, but I hope we do because it seems like a very helpful tool to use and is also very simple after a few attempts. 

Mitchell Baldwin 

January 21, 2018

Blog Post #2: 

Framing:

For this shot I attempted to add a frame effect to the window picture. So I stepped forward from where I was originally standing to get less of the wall in the shot. This is one of my favorite shots. 

Worms Eye View: 

For this shot I wanted to capture an unusual angle of the window so I ducked down and shot upwards and came up with this. This is probably my least favorite shot. 

Lines:

For this shot I wanted to capture the lines under the window along with a little bit of the window. The lines add more for the audience to see. 

Symmetry:

For this shot I took a step back to capture the full window so the audience would be able to see the perfect symmetry of the window. 

Side view:

For this shot I wanted to capture an extremely unusual angle of the window to add a different perspective of it. This is one of my favorite shots. 

Mitchell Baldwin Com 1113 Intro

Introduction/Background:
Hi My name is Mitchell Baldwin. I am in Com 1113 because my major is Sports Communications. I am a freshman at High Point. I am 18 years old and am from Maryland. My favorite color is red and my favorite color to wear is black.

Interests:
As I said before, I am into sports, but I am most interested in basketball. When I am not sleeping, eating, or in class, I am doing something basketball related. Whether it is playing NBA 2k on Ps4, playing in real life in Slane, watching live games, watching highlights, or keeping up with my fantasy basketball league.

What I hope to get out of this class:
I watch a lot of YouTube videos on basketball and NBA 2k, so for awhile I have thought about starting my own YouTube channel doing the same things, but in my own way. It had only been a thought before because it takes a lot of time and the equipment necessary to start a channel is very expensive and it requires a lot of knowledge about photoshop and video editing, which I have none of. So I'm hoping that by the end of the semester I will know how to do at least some basic things on photoshop.