USC Construction Site

USC seems to always be in construction. Although this might be a hassle for students, avoiding certain roads and taking detours, construction is a sign of renovation that will ultimately benefit the students.
Currently, on the corner of Exposition and Figueroa, the Jill and Frank Fertitta Hall is underway and will be opening May 2016. As an addition to the USC Marshall School of Business, this Hall will create and expand a collaborative and interactive facility with 20 new classrooms, lounges, a patio setting, and 5 floors with approximately 50 breakout rooms.
To find out more about this project, visit http://www.marshall.usc.edu/about/capital-projects/fertitta-hall.

Within part of our assignment, we needed to shoot a few images that were 'bad' in terms of being overexposed, underexposed, or taken in difficult lighting conditions.

To finish off the assignment, we are to edit the badly taken images to practice our editing skills.

To fix this image, I stayed with the JPG format and increased the exposure, and the vibrance on Photoshop CS6.

This image and the previous overexposed one are prime examples as to why it is always better to shoot in RAW as well as in JPG. The reason I say this is because RAW images store more information that allow you to edit the image without creating any grain and strain. I tried editing the JPG format, but the image would not gather the proper highlights and contrast as you can see in the bottom image below.

For this image, I simply lightened the entire image and then went over certain parts by masking the image lightening the tree, building and the men furthermore with the 'Curve' on Photoshop CS6. I also added a bit of vibrance.