Digital image capture & editing - Textures

 

 

I took some photos of some still lifes (or lives) I set up in my dining room to have a mess around with textures again...

 

 

 

 

 

This is fun!

 

Digital image capture & editing - Memories

 

After the introduction to the montage project, I started to think about collecting some photos and textures that I can scan in and use for my memories montage.

 

When I think of the word 'memories', I think of my childhood and memories with family.

 

This (below) is one of my favourite childhood pictures of me and my big sister because it shows how close we were as kids and shows how I remember us being.

 

I used photoshop and layers to add a texture and changed the image to black and white to give it quite an old hazy feel, because I don't clearly remember being this age. (i'm not quite old enough to have had black and white photos!)

 

 

 

 

This is the original image.... I just used my phone to take a picture of the photo.

 

 

 

 

 

Photoshop - touching up

Today, I had a go at getting rid of some of the imperfections on this old photograph below on photoshop. 

First, I straightened up the actual image by using the ruler. I dragged a line across the top of the edge of the photo and then clicked image and image rotation and then selected arbitrary. The angle was already set to 3.12 which made the image straight.

To get rid of the little white ripped bit at the top right of the image, I used the lasso tool to roughly draw around it, move the selection just slightly above, clicked the move tool and duplicated it down by holding down the 'alt' key and dragging over where the rip was. 

With the other rip on the top left hand side, i used the lasso tool again to make a selection around it, then clicked edit, then fill and then selected content-aware on the drop down menu. 

To get rid of the coffee stains on the right hand side of the photo, I used the spot healing brush tool.

To get rid of the numbers and the white lines at the bottom of the photo, i used the clone stand tool. To get a sample from the surrounding grass, you press 'alt' and click and then stamp it over where you want to by just clicking. You have to keep sampling to make it as accurate as possible. When doing the white lines at the bottom, zooming right in was required as the lines go over the boy's shoes so you have to get nice and close.

This was the finished image. It's not the best as I did it quite quickly but it demonstrates what I did!

Photoshop - Fruit Man!

 

 

In todays session with Dave Gee, we had a go at using different images to create a montage in Photoshop.  

 

 

 

The tools I used for this exercise were; the elliptical marquee tool, the move tool and the magnetic lasso tool. I also needed to resize and rotate some of the images and duplicate some for the eyes, ears and hair.

 

FUN! :) 

Studio photography - Commercial

In today's session with John, we talked about commercial photography. This is photography of which the photographer is paid for. This could include photography for; advertising, fashion, food, paparazzi or portrait and wedding photography.  

Today, we photographed 'shiny things'. We were demonstrating how someone might advertise jewellery. We had a studio made up of 2 lights; one with a honeycomb modifier behind the subject and one to the side. We were using quite dull, uninteresting backgrounds for the jewellery to go on to accentuate how nice and shiny they are and to create a contrast between the subject and background. I went out and collected an old brick with moss on it. There were a few woodlice on it so i brushed them off first.

I used a macro lens and got really close to my subject.