LO3 and LO4: Photographs

Best Photographs

Pastiches

These particular shots were taken to pastiche other existing photographs. These two images (right and above ) are high angle shots. This is used to make the reader feel overpowering as well as making the image just look more interesting. 

I did experiment with this a little bit when taking my photographs as I thought it would look good on a title page or double page spread - like the RockSound one above.

These are two photographs where I focused on  this high angled shots.

Editing Photographs

Editing Cover Image

Above is the original image. After opening the image up in Adobe Photoshop the first thing I did was use the spot healing tool to get rid of pimples, blackheads, moles and stray hairs around the glabella. 

Here I have switched to the regular healing tool to get rid of 'bag lines' under the eyes and to add some more colour to the area around his eyes. After this I switch between the spot healing tool and regular healing tool to finish smoothing over his face. I do this to get rid of blotchy areas of skin, smooth over cracks in his lips and make his general complexion look smoother.



Using the quick selection tool I select the centre of his eyes and use this dialogue box to change their brightness. I do this to try and make him appear less drowsy.

The image above shows a comparison of the final version (left) and the original (right).

Editing Title Page Image

This (above) is the original image prior to editing.

Like my cover image, the first thing I did with this image was put in to Adobe Photoshop and smooth over both of the model's features to remove pimples and other blemishes. Then using the magic lasso tool I outlined them both and copied them in to their own layer so that they could be edited separately. I also coloured Lewis Foxhall's hair (right), so that it appeared slightly more vibrant.

This is the image after I added a black and white filter to the background, I removed this however after deciding that Lewis Wright (left) blended in to the background too much.

Editing Double Page Spread Image

 Here (Above) I am scaling my image by simply using 'Free Transform'.

 Then, like with my title page image, I used the magic lasso tool to select the two models and re-layer them. I do this so that I am free to edit the background as a whole without it affecting the images of them. The dialogue box in this screenshot is used to change the brightness of the background.
Because I am having an article on this image I decide to darken the background quite a lot so that the reader is able to focus on the text much easier.
As the image is a little short after it has been scaled I use the clone tool to cover a whole section of the left hand side.(Right)
Then I use the blur and healing tools to patch up the visible line from where the image has been cloned. (Below)

After fixng the visible line in the photograph I then used the blur tool very faintly over the entire background again so the reader can focus on the text. I then added a black-to-transparent gradient over the top with a very low opacity for the same reason.

After this the image was ready to edit as a DPS so I set up all my reference lines using rulers and imported the band logo.