Photoshoped to make it grey and fit in with the background.
FIRST PICTURE: Put the camera on a timer.
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Thursday 19 December 2013
Depth Of Field (Blur and Sharpen)
Using the blur tool at 85%, Blur out the background, Then use 50% and move on to the foreground, And the hills in the background.
Use the sharpen tool to make the village stand out more (at 50% strength)
Thursday 12 December 2013
Don, Don, Don!
Try'ed to Blend the background in with different colours.
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V
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Ctrl + Shift + U (Grey scale)
Ctrl + T (Transform)
Thursday 5 December 2013
Brick wall - Patch Tool
I used the healing tool and the spot healing tool, I also then used the burn and dodge tool to blend the image a bit better.
After I added a grunge texture to add to the brick wall and used a "screen" Blending Mode.
Birds - Spot Healing tool
I used the heal and spot tool to take the birds out of image and make the telephone line.
Cracked Glass
Used Blending mode 'screen' to put the glass over the top of the image.
-Added 'Bullet Holes' Using the same technique
Thursday 28 November 2013
Thursday 14 November 2013
Fashion Questions.
When Fashion started...
Fashion Photography has been in existence since the early days of photography. In 1856, Adolphe Braun published a book containing 288 photographs of Virginia Oldoini, Countess di Castiglione, a Tuscan noblewoman at the court of Napoleon III. This made her the first fashion model.
1. When is an image a Portrait when is it a fashion photograph?
I would say that a portrait is more creative, Like a piece of art than a fashion photograph as fashion photography mainly sells products like clothes and accessories. It is more commercial. depending on if the image is going in a magazine like vogue or not…
2. To what degree should an image manipulated to go into a fashion magazine?
In the film they manipulate the image by choosing the right model for the right sort of outfit. They choose just 1 or none of the photos taken by the photographer to make it into the magazine. They will also Photoshop the pictures to air brush the models face and make it "Perfect". They change the structure of the face, Like making it symmetrical and making the eyes the same size at the same level. They will also change skin tone and the models body... Making her/him slimmer.
Taking all this into consideration I think that they're should be a line drawn as to where photos can be air brushed and manipulated to make the models look better in the eyes of the readers as there is a lot of girls/woman mainly younger looking at the magazines. which leads them to think that they are not perfect because they don't look like what they see in the magazines....
The sets they use will also be particular to the product they are advertising. Something summery may be advertised at a beach.
They have to make the model look perfect for the sort of product they are advertising, otherwise it would look like they've just thrown products and a model together to try and get a good picture.
3. Is there a clash between the creative and commercial side of fashion Photography?
Where some people like to photograph models for creative means others want to earn money out of it and wont use a specific image if they don't think it meets the needs of the commercial side of photography, whether or not it is a good photograph or not...
What clashes occur in the film between the creative and commercial?
Commercial photography wins in the film as the person making the decisions about what goes in the magazine and what doesn't, She needs to make the best decision to make money for the company. So unfortunately commercial wins over creative in the movie.
She makes a lot of harsh decisions regarding the images for the magazine but I think she knows what she's doing and also what she's looking for... If you don't know what sells in the magazine and what the readers like then the magazine will loose a lot of its money as loads and loads of people read it. an estimate of 1,250,000 so if the managers of the magazine are not harsh between what's creative and what's commercial they may loose a lot of readers.
Do you agree? Why?
I see why commercial wins over creative photography in the magazine industry however I think that the photographs should be presented somewhere as they are still amazing images that have had a lot of thought and time put into them just for one person to not allow it to have the audience it deserves.
Fashion Photography has been in existence since the early days of photography. In 1856, Adolphe Braun published a book containing 288 photographs of Virginia Oldoini, Countess di Castiglione, a Tuscan noblewoman at the court of Napoleon III. This made her the first fashion model.
1. When is an image a Portrait when is it a fashion photograph?
I would say that a portrait is more creative, Like a piece of art than a fashion photograph as fashion photography mainly sells products like clothes and accessories. It is more commercial. depending on if the image is going in a magazine like vogue or not…
2. To what degree should an image manipulated to go into a fashion magazine?
In the film they manipulate the image by choosing the right model for the right sort of outfit. They choose just 1 or none of the photos taken by the photographer to make it into the magazine. They will also Photoshop the pictures to air brush the models face and make it "Perfect". They change the structure of the face, Like making it symmetrical and making the eyes the same size at the same level. They will also change skin tone and the models body... Making her/him slimmer.
Taking all this into consideration I think that they're should be a line drawn as to where photos can be air brushed and manipulated to make the models look better in the eyes of the readers as there is a lot of girls/woman mainly younger looking at the magazines. which leads them to think that they are not perfect because they don't look like what they see in the magazines....
The sets they use will also be particular to the product they are advertising. Something summery may be advertised at a beach.
They have to make the model look perfect for the sort of product they are advertising, otherwise it would look like they've just thrown products and a model together to try and get a good picture.
3. Is there a clash between the creative and commercial side of fashion Photography?
Where some people like to photograph models for creative means others want to earn money out of it and wont use a specific image if they don't think it meets the needs of the commercial side of photography, whether or not it is a good photograph or not...
What clashes occur in the film between the creative and commercial?
Commercial photography wins in the film as the person making the decisions about what goes in the magazine and what doesn't, She needs to make the best decision to make money for the company. So unfortunately commercial wins over creative in the movie.
She makes a lot of harsh decisions regarding the images for the magazine but I think she knows what she's doing and also what she's looking for... If you don't know what sells in the magazine and what the readers like then the magazine will loose a lot of its money as loads and loads of people read it. an estimate of 1,250,000 so if the managers of the magazine are not harsh between what's creative and what's commercial they may loose a lot of readers.
Do you agree? Why?
I see why commercial wins over creative photography in the magazine industry however I think that the photographs should be presented somewhere as they are still amazing images that have had a lot of thought and time put into them just for one person to not allow it to have the audience it deserves.
Thursday 17 October 2013
Portraiture - Tony Vaccaro
Portraiture; Tony Vaccaro
Photographers want to show more than just a person posing for a picture mainly they're personality.
With painting portraiture there is some history however the sitter chooses what they want the picture to look like and how they want to be represented.
However with Photo Portraiture they Photographer can choose how they wanted their subject to be represented. As they own the photograph and with a painting, the sitter owns it.
A painted portrait can be manipulated, For instance there could be different sorts of objects, Like a dog to show loyalty. With pictures you cant manipulate them. It shows more history in an image and is more reliable.
Tony Vaccaro believes in taking pictures at the decisive moment. Even through his war photography he has always tried to take his pictures at the right moment.
Vaccaro also realized that he was meant to put celebrates on a pedestal and show that they are number one, And try to show their greatness, However He wanted to show his opinion of the person he was taking the portrait of, Not their own opinion. Vaccaro takes a picture of the person on a pedestal but he says he took the picture of the subject on 'The right size' Pedestal.
He doesn't want to show them how they want to be shown as but what they're world is like.
He tried to sum up the subject in one word and determine there personality in one word, For instance if the celebrity was an Actress/Actor, How could he define that in his images? How can he show what they are like in one image.
Thursday 3 October 2013
Photojournalism War Photography
Robert Capa/Tony Viccaro
Describe the different circumstances that these photographers experienced as Photojournalists in WW2;
Tony Viccaro:
He was a soldier and a photographer for the army. His images were used to document what has happened in the army. Tony was expected to take photos with an army Issued camera which was the speed graphic.
However this would take to long to be able to take pictures in the time of the war. So he brought himself an Argus-C3 as he was not rich enough to afford a Leica, Unlike Robert Capa.
As Tony Viccaro was a soldier he was able to get closer to the action than Robert Capa ever could.
Without the luxury of a magazine company waiting for him back home to processes the photographs. He produced his own. He found the ruins of a camera store and began searching for the chemicals which would enable him to produce the film himself In solders hats. However most of the images he photographed were destroyed by the army's censor. As they believed that the country wasn't ready for some of the images he took. They didn't want to be showing pictures of dead Americans but of dead Germans.
Robert Capa:
The only photojournalist that went with the first wave of solders on to Omaha beach on D-day.. He was a photographer for Life Magazine. Capa took 106 pictures. however he was under pressure to get the films developed and so he asked the developer to hurry. The developer did something wrong and lost all but 11 photos taken on Omaha Beach. He took his pictures with the Leica.
Find some work of theirs work:
Tony Viccaro:
Robert Capa:
Eddie Adams:
Describe the difference between the video footage and the photograph of the "Execution":
When you look at the video from American TV you see the "Execution" happen in a matter of seconds, You know what's just happened but your brain only has a few seconds to process that image and produce emotion towards it. However when we see the photograph "Execution" taken by Eddie Adams we see a picture which captures that decisive moment (The picture has been taken when the bullet is in the Vietnamese persons head) and lasts a life time. We can process the image more easier as its a image which has "stopped" time, Rather then giving a few seconds to see that one of the generals has just shot down a prisoner. The image captures facial expressions.
I think that the image displays more emotion than the moving image as its captured a moment in time and not just displayed a few seconds of a life.
To make a photo more reliable footage is also needed to back it up, Sometimes a signature and date. In this case the american TV filmed the execution of the Vietnamese man. Eddie Adams saw this photo as if nothing much had happened, He had seen the general do this allot, and therefore felt minimal emotion for the man.
Describe the different circumstances that these photographers experienced as Photojournalists in WW2;
Tony Viccaro:
He was a soldier and a photographer for the army. His images were used to document what has happened in the army. Tony was expected to take photos with an army Issued camera which was the speed graphic.
However this would take to long to be able to take pictures in the time of the war. So he brought himself an Argus-C3 as he was not rich enough to afford a Leica, Unlike Robert Capa.
As Tony Viccaro was a soldier he was able to get closer to the action than Robert Capa ever could.
Without the luxury of a magazine company waiting for him back home to processes the photographs. He produced his own. He found the ruins of a camera store and began searching for the chemicals which would enable him to produce the film himself In solders hats. However most of the images he photographed were destroyed by the army's censor. As they believed that the country wasn't ready for some of the images he took. They didn't want to be showing pictures of dead Americans but of dead Germans.
Robert Capa:
The only photojournalist that went with the first wave of solders on to Omaha beach on D-day.. He was a photographer for Life Magazine. Capa took 106 pictures. however he was under pressure to get the films developed and so he asked the developer to hurry. The developer did something wrong and lost all but 11 photos taken on Omaha Beach. He took his pictures with the Leica.
Find some work of theirs work:
Tony Viccaro:
Robert Capa:
Eddie Adams:
Describe the difference between the video footage and the photograph of the "Execution":
When you look at the video from American TV you see the "Execution" happen in a matter of seconds, You know what's just happened but your brain only has a few seconds to process that image and produce emotion towards it. However when we see the photograph "Execution" taken by Eddie Adams we see a picture which captures that decisive moment (The picture has been taken when the bullet is in the Vietnamese persons head) and lasts a life time. We can process the image more easier as its a image which has "stopped" time, Rather then giving a few seconds to see that one of the generals has just shot down a prisoner. The image captures facial expressions.
I think that the image displays more emotion than the moving image as its captured a moment in time and not just displayed a few seconds of a life.
To make a photo more reliable footage is also needed to back it up, Sometimes a signature and date. In this case the american TV filmed the execution of the Vietnamese man. Eddie Adams saw this photo as if nothing much had happened, He had seen the general do this allot, and therefore felt minimal emotion for the man.
Thursday 26 September 2013
Henri Cartier Bresson.
Photojournalism - Explain what it is
Photojournalism is a sort of journalism that evolves a camera and a photographer. It is the photojournalist's job to take the pictures of what the journalist is writing about. A photo journalist could be dropped in to a situation where he could be taking photos of tragic war, Or Weddings. It was born in the chaos war.
Why is he famous?
Henri Cartier was one of the pioneers of street photography. He said he was a surrealist but the pictures he shot are some of the best of photojournalism. Some people think of him as the "Godfather" of photojournalism.
Why is his work significant in Photojournalism?
His pictures seem to represent what happens to the world and the economy in the next couple of years. Almost as if he was predicting what was to happen to the world in the years to come. However he doesn't know. He could almost step into a scenario and see the theatrical potential in his composition.
Find and upload to your blog some work of theirs
This picture by Henri Cartier is one of the most recognizable to all photographers. as some people would just see a man jumping over a puddle. Others might point out the fact that there is a broken wheel in the foreground. To some people now a broken wheel is something that costs allot to repair. Also the man is jumping over a puddle; Which could represent the fact that the world went into war and the economy plummeted because of the war that happened a little after this photograph was taken. Also there was a sign made in a Jewish style (Which could represent the second world war).
What Camera/Technique did he use?
Henri Cartier used a camera called a Leica which has a view finder on the top left which allows you to see the world with your left eye whilst taking the picture with your right, This could lead to better composition. The camera was made and launched in Germany in 1925. It had the latest lens technology allowing for instant photos...
The Leica was Compact and silent. Which would allow the operator to catch a moment in a split second.
Henri Cartier used a camera called a Leica which has a view finder on the top left which allows you to see the world with your left eye whilst taking the picture with your right, This could lead to better composition. The camera was made and launched in Germany in 1925. It had the latest lens technology allowing for instant photos...
The Leica was Compact and silent. Which would allow the operator to catch a moment in a split second.
Thursday 19 September 2013
What I use to take photos.
I use a Nikon D80.
I like landscape, street and experimental photography... e.g. Light Painting, Multiple exposure and making things that look nice in pictures.
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