First of all drag your image onto Photoshop so that it is ready to be sharpened. Then Double Click 'Duplicate Image'. Next double click on the layer and change the name to sharpening.
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
Sharpening
How to Professionally Sharpen an image using Photoshop
First of all drag your image onto Photoshop so that it is ready to be sharpened. Then Double Click 'Duplicate Image'. Next double click on the layer and change the name to sharpening.
First of all drag your image onto Photoshop so that it is ready to be sharpened. Then Double Click 'Duplicate Image'. Next double click on the layer and change the name to sharpening.
Wednesday, 7 January 2015
Portrait Photographers Research
Alec Soth
Alec Soth was born in 1969 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. He is an American photographer notable for large scale projects. Alec takes a variety of portraits which are always shot outside and never in the studio which shows Alecs character through his photos. It shows that Alec is an outdoor person and likes to create things outdoors really than inside. A few of Alecs photos are taken with strangers of his daily life. A lot of his photos are taken with the model being further away from the camera compared to other peoples work. It is usually a full body shot which Alec prefers taking. However occasionally a face portrait will crop up in his albums.
I would argue that Alec likes taking a lot of photos with a short depth of field. This shows that he prefers the model in the photo to be the centre of attention and everything else is blurred around them. By having the person in the centre of attention, it highlights them and makes you look at them before anything else around them.
Anders Petersen
Petersen is known for his and personal documentary-style black-and-white photos. He studied photography under Christer Stromholm in Sweden, 1966-1967. He frequently shot photos of the late-night regulars (prostitutes, drunks, lovers and drug addicts) in a Cafe in Hamburg, Germany.
As you can see from the photos below, he always tends to shoot photos of people out in the early hours of the morning. Some of his photos could be seen as 'Destrubing', however others could look at it in a positive way and say that it was people living their daily lives.
The photo below is shot of two lovers that look to be drunk. The photo is shot at an angle with the woman closer to the camera. The couple are photographed in the centre of the shot to highlight them as the centre of attention.
Diane Arbus was an American photographer and writer for photographs of dwarfs, giants, transgender people, nudists, circus performers. I would argue that Diane's photos are abnormal because she likes taking photos of people that stand out e.g. Giants. She highlights these people and makes a good picture out of it. Her photos are mainly life like, however as you can see below a child standing with a grenade is not ordinary life. She's added the grenade to the photo to bring emotion into the photo.
This photo is quite dramatic because it really shows the height of the giant. She uses the rule of thirds to great effect here as it shows the giant looking down at the old people.
As you can see, all of her photos are taken in black and white. This is because at the time she was around (March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) no color cameras where invented at that time. The composition of her photos is mostly good as she shoots the models in the centre of the photo.
Alec Soth was born in 1969 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. He is an American photographer notable for large scale projects. Alec takes a variety of portraits which are always shot outside and never in the studio which shows Alecs character through his photos. It shows that Alec is an outdoor person and likes to create things outdoors really than inside. A few of Alecs photos are taken with strangers of his daily life. A lot of his photos are taken with the model being further away from the camera compared to other peoples work. It is usually a full body shot which Alec prefers taking. However occasionally a face portrait will crop up in his albums.
I would argue that Alec likes taking a lot of photos with a short depth of field. This shows that he prefers the model in the photo to be the centre of attention and everything else is blurred around them. By having the person in the centre of attention, it highlights them and makes you look at them before anything else around them.
Petersen is known for his and personal documentary-style black-and-white photos. He studied photography under Christer Stromholm in Sweden, 1966-1967. He frequently shot photos of the late-night regulars (prostitutes, drunks, lovers and drug addicts) in a Cafe in Hamburg, Germany.
As you can see from the photos below, he always tends to shoot photos of people out in the early hours of the morning. Some of his photos could be seen as 'Destrubing', however others could look at it in a positive way and say that it was people living their daily lives.
The photo below is shot of two lovers that look to be drunk. The photo is shot at an angle with the woman closer to the camera. The couple are photographed in the centre of the shot to highlight them as the centre of attention.
Roger Ballan
Roger Ballen was born in New York City, New York, USA in 1950. He has lived in Johannesburg since the 1970s. In his early career he began by documenting the small villages of rural South Africa, Ballen starting photographing the people in these places in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Roger Ballan is known for doing Black and White photos with a grim effect to them. Some may say explicit, or some may say reality to life. I like his photos because it quite often it shows the harsh truth of daily life.
Larry Clark
Larry Clark was born on January 19, 1943 and is an American photographer, writer and film producer who is best known for the movie Kids and his photography book Tulsa. He usually photographs youth who casually engage in illegal drug use, underage sex, and violence. These photos below are quite disturbing at the fact that people are trying to take their lives. There is something about it that makes you want to look away, however at the same time look bait more. The fact that they want to kill themselves is bad enough, but taking pictures of people using violence and underage sex is disturbing.
Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus was an American photographer and writer for photographs of dwarfs, giants, transgender people, nudists, circus performers. I would argue that Diane's photos are abnormal because she likes taking photos of people that stand out e.g. Giants. She highlights these people and makes a good picture out of it. Her photos are mainly life like, however as you can see below a child standing with a grenade is not ordinary life. She's added the grenade to the photo to bring emotion into the photo.
This photo is quite dramatic because it really shows the height of the giant. She uses the rule of thirds to great effect here as it shows the giant looking down at the old people.
As you can see, all of her photos are taken in black and white. This is because at the time she was around (March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) no color cameras where invented at that time. The composition of her photos is mostly good as she shoots the models in the centre of the photo.
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