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.
Wednesday, 17 December 2014
Exhibition Review
Exhibition Review
The Exhibition was on Wednesday 10th December and it was held at UCLan University in central lancashire. It was held by a group of Preston's College Photography Students that are eager to impress their newly developed skills in the photography world. The Exhibition was called 'Perspectives', this is because every photographer in the group had a different image, a different idea in mind when taking photos. There was roughly 25 students who participated in the show. In the show, the photos were hung in a room about head height and there was no visually similar images placed next to each other. The images weren't placed in groups because the whole idea of the name 'Perspectives' was that every photo was different.
People would agree that the artwork was brilliant, but only a few were outstanding. I would argue that the best painting was the one below. This is because the emotion that has gone into the thought of the picture. A lot of the photos were done with colour, however its good that the fact that this one is black and white because it makes the facial details stand out with more emotion in the photo.
The Theme in the exhibition was Perspectives which gives the idea that everybody's photo was meant to be different in their own creative, distinctive way. Compared to other exhibitions I've seen, i would argue that the is one of the best. This is due to the fact of the theme and the work and effort that has clearly gone into the show. The artist that created this photo drew my attention straight away to this photo. This was because it showed more emotion that the other photos. A lot of the photos had no expression to the models face. A few of the pictures the model was dressed up in different clothes, but with less emotion than this photo.
Aswell as my favorite one, there was a couple of other photos that stood out to me from the start and caught my eye. You could argue that the most unique photos were the ones with the coloured backgrounds. This is because they are the first pictures that catch your eye when you walk in the room. A couple had Orange backgrounds which looks effective and gave it a summer effect. The model in front of the orange photo was wearing sunglasses and shorts which made gave the picture a hot summer look. Another effect which looked professionally unique was a a sky blue background tone. The model in the blue background was wearing a coat which gave it a cold, wintery look. By having completely different photos it explains the exhibition name 'perspectives'.
The Exhibition was on Wednesday 10th December and it was held at UCLan University in central lancashire. It was held by a group of Preston's College Photography Students that are eager to impress their newly developed skills in the photography world. The Exhibition was called 'Perspectives', this is because every photographer in the group had a different image, a different idea in mind when taking photos. There was roughly 25 students who participated in the show. In the show, the photos were hung in a room about head height and there was no visually similar images placed next to each other. The images weren't placed in groups because the whole idea of the name 'Perspectives' was that every photo was different.
People would agree that the artwork was brilliant, but only a few were outstanding. I would argue that the best painting was the one below. This is because the emotion that has gone into the thought of the picture. A lot of the photos were done with colour, however its good that the fact that this one is black and white because it makes the facial details stand out with more emotion in the photo.
The Theme in the exhibition was Perspectives which gives the idea that everybody's photo was meant to be different in their own creative, distinctive way. Compared to other exhibitions I've seen, i would argue that the is one of the best. This is due to the fact of the theme and the work and effort that has clearly gone into the show. The artist that created this photo drew my attention straight away to this photo. This was because it showed more emotion that the other photos. A lot of the photos had no expression to the models face. A few of the pictures the model was dressed up in different clothes, but with less emotion than this photo.
Aswell as my favorite one, there was a couple of other photos that stood out to me from the start and caught my eye. You could argue that the most unique photos were the ones with the coloured backgrounds. This is because they are the first pictures that catch your eye when you walk in the room. A couple had Orange backgrounds which looks effective and gave it a summer effect. The model in front of the orange photo was wearing sunglasses and shorts which made gave the picture a hot summer look. Another effect which looked professionally unique was a a sky blue background tone. The model in the blue background was wearing a coat which gave it a cold, wintery look. By having completely different photos it explains the exhibition name 'perspectives'.
Exhibition
Exhibition
This was my final image
that I took for the exhibition. This was the image before it had been
photoshopped. As you can see, the position of the face in the portrait is
perfect as it is central. However the lighting on her facial details is
overexposed so that needed correcting before it becoming the final edit. You
may not be able to see from this photo, but the model had freckles. So by
editing it in photoshop by using the spot removal tool, it got rid of 90% of
her freckles.
This was my final image
that I used for the exhibition. I found that a black and white effect looked
better on the photo and I thought that it looked like she was showing more
emotion than the original photo. The photo before edit was overexposed so I
changed it a little to make it look even better.
Tuesday, 16 December 2014
Monday, 15 December 2014
Adjustment Layers
LOTC
An adjustment layer is a tool that uses color and tonal adjustments to your image without changing the picture permanently. The color and tonal adjustments are kept in the adjustment layer. You can correct several layers by making just one change, rather than adjusting each layer separately. You can get rid of your changes and get back the original image at any time.
Wednesday, 19 November 2014
Evaluation
Evaluation
If I was to do Light Paintings, Scanograms and Projections again I would most certainly spend more time doing each task. I would take a variety of photos within each task to make sure I had a few different photos to experiment with. With only having 1 or 2 photos such as what I did, it limits you to what you can do with the photo. For example, if you were to take a dull photo with bad lighting and low exposure with the models hair cut out of the photo, correcting it on Photoshop would almost be an impossible task. However if you were to take a range of photos, then you can mix around with them and see which photo comes out the best. I would say my strong point is light paintings. This is because I have had experience in this area and I know how to make a light painting look effective. I would like to say another strong point is Scanograms. This is because I have done various images whilst I was working with my peers and found that imagination with the image on Photoshop can turn a very dull image, to a very detailed creative image within a couple of steps. My weak points are most likely Emulsion transfers. This is due to the fact that I haven't spent much time doing emulsion transfers as yet. However I plan on practicing it until I feel confident with my work.
If I was to do Light Paintings, Scanograms and Projections again I would most certainly spend more time doing each task. I would take a variety of photos within each task to make sure I had a few different photos to experiment with. With only having 1 or 2 photos such as what I did, it limits you to what you can do with the photo. For example, if you were to take a dull photo with bad lighting and low exposure with the models hair cut out of the photo, correcting it on Photoshop would almost be an impossible task. However if you were to take a range of photos, then you can mix around with them and see which photo comes out the best. I would say my strong point is light paintings. This is because I have had experience in this area and I know how to make a light painting look effective. I would like to say another strong point is Scanograms. This is because I have done various images whilst I was working with my peers and found that imagination with the image on Photoshop can turn a very dull image, to a very detailed creative image within a couple of steps. My weak points are most likely Emulsion transfers. This is due to the fact that I haven't spent much time doing emulsion transfers as yet. However I plan on practicing it until I feel confident with my work.
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