Unit 34, Image Manipulation
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Photographer CopyRight:
Date: 21/10/13
How Photography Copyright is related to the Law:
Photography Copyright, in fact all types of copyright are all very important for us to be aware of. Copyright is taking the work of someone else and then using it for your own personal use. For non-commercial use of photography copyright, taking another photographer's work and not saying were it is from, you might just get away with that, but just make sure you reference where you got it from or at least mention the artist's name.
For commercial use copyright, it is required by law, for you to get the photo and the permission of the artist or the company, to enable you to use it. If this doesn't happen, then you as the individual who has taken the photo without permission, you could end up in huge trouble and could receive a huge fine. If you want to use an image for commercial use and you can't find any evidence of which artist it came from, you have to make sure that you have sufficient proof, to enable you to use it.
Here are some extra bits of info linked to Photo copyright:
Photography Copyright, in fact all types of copyright are all very important for us to be aware of. Copyright is taking the work of someone else and then using it for your own personal use. For non-commercial use of photography copyright, taking another photographer's work and not saying were it is from, you might just get away with that, but just make sure you reference where you got it from or at least mention the artist's name.
For commercial use copyright, it is required by law, for you to get the photo and the permission of the artist or the company, to enable you to use it. If this doesn't happen, then you as the individual who has taken the photo without permission, you could end up in huge trouble and could receive a huge fine. If you want to use an image for commercial use and you can't find any evidence of which artist it came from, you have to make sure that you have sufficient proof, to enable you to use it.
Here are some extra bits of info linked to Photo copyright:
- If you are a self employed photographer, then you are legally the owner of the copyright of all your images. You are the owner and you have the power to choose if you want to lend out your images.
- If you work for a company firm as a photographer, say for example you work as a photographer for the NHS, then even though you are the artist, the company are the legal owners of the photographs.
- In some cases it is generally the photographer who is the owner of the copyright.
There is a certain and key word, that we photographers use to describe the action of breaking the rule of copyright of photography. This word is called = INFRINGEMENT
Example of an Infringed photograph:
What happened here was, the original photo that was taken by a photographer called Art Rogers. He titled his work of art "Puppies" It was said that internationally Jeff Koons took ownership of the photograph and renamed it "String of Puppies" For a long time Koons managed to sell a sufficient number of copies of his new image until he was discovered by Rogers, who immediately sued him. Koons denied all charges and stated that he had gone through proper channels to obtain the photo, fair and square.
The outcome was that the court found the similarities between the two images too close for a typical person to recognise it. Koon's defence was rejected under the argument that he could have used a more generic source to form his statement - without copying Rogers's work. Koons was found out for not having gone through the proper channels of copyright and was forced to pay a monetary settlement to Rogers.
This is what happens when you don't go through the proper channels. There are ways that we, as artists can stop. The main way we can stop people steeling us artist's work is by adding a watermark to our images, but we must put it a location that cannot me edited out, like if you have a picture of a beach with sand and sea, put the watermark on, overlapping the sand and sea, so that it isn't easy to clone out. Aka get rid of the copyright watermark,
Here is an Example of adding a watermark to an image.
By adding your CopyRight to your images, people now have a tougher challenge of editing out the artist's name, so as to make it theirs.
Photography tends to be protected by law and moral rights in all countries. Some countries have different rules to others. Just as a comparison, photography laws are very high in places like Britain and France, but in Spain and Gibraltar the laws are not as strongly enforced. Photography is restricted by the law through something called miscellaneous criminal offences. Publishing certain images is restricted by privacy laws. Photography of certain subject matter can be generally restricted in the interests particularly of the protection of young children.
The outcome was that the court found the similarities between the two images too close for a typical person to recognise it. Koon's defence was rejected under the argument that he could have used a more generic source to form his statement - without copying Rogers's work. Koons was found out for not having gone through the proper channels of copyright and was forced to pay a monetary settlement to Rogers.
This is what happens when you don't go through the proper channels. There are ways that we, as artists can stop. The main way we can stop people steeling us artist's work is by adding a watermark to our images, but we must put it a location that cannot me edited out, like if you have a picture of a beach with sand and sea, put the watermark on, overlapping the sand and sea, so that it isn't easy to clone out. Aka get rid of the copyright watermark,
Here is an Example of adding a watermark to an image.
By adding your CopyRight to your images, people now have a tougher challenge of editing out the artist's name, so as to make it theirs.
Photography tends to be protected by law and moral rights in all countries. Some countries have different rules to others. Just as a comparison, photography laws are very high in places like Britain and France, but in Spain and Gibraltar the laws are not as strongly enforced. Photography is restricted by the law through something called miscellaneous criminal offences. Publishing certain images is restricted by privacy laws. Photography of certain subject matter can be generally restricted in the interests particularly of the protection of young children.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Image Manipulation:
Date: 25/11/13
Introduction to Image Manipulation and Paul M. Smith:
Assignment Brief:
Class Notes:
Research on Paul M.Smith:
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An Artist that uses himself many times in the same image and can make himself look like other people, for example the middle image is the artist, PMS, but with the look of Elvis Presley about him.
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As you can see from the image that I have chosen as the main image to represent Paul M.Smith, he is quite a creative person and expresses himself in such a way that makes one feel, especially me, how in the world did he manage to make a living out of the photography he has done. He is a photographer and course director for the BA Hons Photography course within the Coventry University of Active Media and Communication.
Before he became attached to photography, Smith studied Fine Art between 1991 to 1995 at Coventry University and as a part of his course he undertook a research project into contemporary art which included living on a Aboriginal Reserve for four months. After completing his degree at Coventry, he went on to complete a Masters in Photography at the Royal College of Art. During this time he spent on this course, he examined, researched the meaning and construction of masculinity, specifically concentrating on the cultural and visual creation of various alpha male identities. For this he has created various forms of heroic behaviour to incredible scrutiny. Smith has travelled the world as from a Soldier, via Action Hero to arrive at his current work of photography, creating his forensic vision of art.
One of the most well-known works that Smith has done is for Channel 4, Mattersons, and the CD cover for Robbie Williams's "Sing when you're winning."
Examples Of Smith's work:
What I Think of Paul M.Smith's work:
To be quite honest, Smith's work isn't really my cup of tea. I can understand that he is being really creative and artistic, but some of the ideas that he does, are a little bit vulgar. I haven't displayed any of those that make me feel a little uncomfortable, because I take them as inappropriate, however I will mention what they were.
- Naked people. (men & woman)
- People being sick. (vomiting into the toilet)
- Bloody scenes. (lots of blood doted all over)
- Messing Around. (parties and being silly)
His work related to those certain things I don't understand how he can be keen to do something like that. The image just above of him sitting around the table with himself, falls under on section of that little list, but there is something that I do like about it. It has good sense of colour. The other images of him, dressed in his army kit, I don't mind at all. They show and demonstrate features, related to what we have been studying and researching. Depth-Of-Field, Exposure, Setting, Sense of Place. The first two demonstrate the keys, Depth-Of-Field and exposure and timing. It also shows the particular setting of the place. The last one of him dressed in his army kit and creating that scene, supposedly of him and all his mates, even though it is only just him, having reached their final goal on say a training exercise and being victorious in securing their target.
My Paul M.Smith Practice Image:
How I managed to create this image:
First of all, I was shown on the computer, a photographer/artist who had specialised in this sort of photography. Which is where you have a certain set scene and then you have a number of people interacting with each other, but here is the interesting factor, all of the people that are interacting with each other are you and only you. In other words, it is a picture of you interacting with yourself. As you can see here, I have set my self up in the same scene, but I am sitting in different seats, each time. Around the some of the outlines of me, you can see the brush marks where I was a little clumsy when I was combining the image together.
How you do this process is actually quite basic and simple.
- Start off with setting up the kind of scene you particularly want. As you can see I chose our lecture room. The chairs were already set up for a lecture, so all I had to do was set up my camera and get someone to press the shutter button.
- Take up to 5 to 7 images with you in different places.
- Open Adobe Photoshop.
- Open the 1st and 2nd images and then by using the move tool, move the first image on top of the 2nd image.
- Select the correct layer and then turn that layer's opacity down so that you can see the two images of you as one image.
- Then by taking the rubber tool, go over the area of where the first image was and gradually the it will come out and the two images will come out like a Paul M. Smith image.
- Combine the two layers of the two images together then the two layers will become one layer.
- Next open the third image and do exactly the same process.
- One thing to point out, each time that you want to add an image, always add the most to the least. Therefore add the layer of the first two images to the layer of the third image.
- Finally at the end you will have your final product and a complete Paul M. Smith image. Just remember, when using the rubber tool to make it look like its all one image, be carful that you don't rub over areas, that don't need to be rubbed. As you can see I was a little bit clumsy in certain areas.
What I thought about this exercise.
To be quite honest, this was quite a weird task to undergo. Having to create an image that is of multiples of yourself interacting with each other, is not something that the average, day to day photographer does. When we were shown examples of some of these images by a well known artist Paul M.Smith, I thought, what in the world would a photographer gain from doing this kind of work. I understood his creativity, but I didn't understand some of the ideas that he had. All in all, I quite enjoyed playing around in Adobe Photoshop and using all of the different tools to make the image come to life. Usually, the editing part of a photographer's job is the most hard and boring. I can sometimes feel like that, but this time I found the selection/editing/manipulating quite fun.
Plans for my Real Paul M. Smith Images;
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| Write Up of what I have decided on doing. |
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| Drawing of my Image in my room at Hotwells, Bristol |
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| Drawing of my Image on Mardyke Wharf. |
My real Paul M. Smith Images: x2
1. Junes' of me in my room at Hotwells, Bristol.
2. Julys' of me on Mardyke Wharf, outside the Grain Barge, Bristol.
How the process of this works: Photoshop Processes
Image 1:
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Sorry for the slight un focused quality of these process progression images, but I had to reduce the size of them to quite small, so as to be able to add them to the blog.
FINAL IMAGE 1:
Image 2
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Sorry for the slight un focused quality of these process progression images, but I had to reduce the size of them to quite small, so as to be able to add them to the blog.
FINAL IMAGE 2:
Explanation of how I managed to create these photos:
By following the exact same process as I did for my Practice Paul M. Smith Image, I started with setting my self up on a certain scene. First I set myself and my camera up in my room at Hotwells, so that I could get my self and as much as the room in the shot as possible. By doing that I had to place my camera right into one of the corners of the room so as to be able to get the most detail as possible. When I did the shoot of me down on Mardyke Wharf I had to set-up my self in a way with having to work outside, but within an area radius that the camera lens could cover. I eventually found the right spot and then started clicking away. After I had finished shooting I transferred the photos to the computer and started to create the final product.
- Take up to 5 to 7 images with you in different places.
- Open Adobe Photoshop.
- Open the 1st and 2nd images and then by using the move tool, move the first image on top of the 2nd image.
- Select the correct layer and then turn that layer's opacity down so that you can see the two images of you as one image.
- Then by taking the rubber tool, go over the area of where the first image was and gradually the it will come out and the two images will come out like a Paul M. Smith image.
- Combine the two layers of the two images together then the two layers will become one layer.
- Next open the third image and do exactly the same process.
- One thing to point out, each time that you want to add an image, always add the most to the least. Therefore add the layer of the first two images to the layer of the third image.
- Finally at the end you will have your final product and a complete Paul M. Smith image. Just remember, when using the rubber tool to make it look like, its all one image, be carful that you don't rub over areas, that don't need to be rubbed.
Did I enjoy this task:
Did I enjoy this task, the answer is yes.
It has opened a new door for me in my photography. To take a number of photos, separately and then combine them all together to create one final image is really cool. Paul M.Smith
although he was the main photographer who started this idea, his work I am not very keen on. It's most definitely not the kind of work that I would do myself. I wouldn't even think about it. For me that is the kind of work that one keeps to him/herself. His work of him in his army clothing and behaving like an army soldier I think is a little better. I am still not convinced that his work is the most attracting, but it is by far one of the most creative work I had seen.
What I am going to try to do now is to try a few more experiment like these 3. My one practice and my two real images have given me some inspiration and some interesting ideas to try to practice in the future to come. All in all, this was a very adventurous and creative process.
Creating my own image manipulation with my own eyes.
ORIGINALS
MANIPULATED IMAGES:
How I Created these images:
First of all I had to take the photos, using my macro lens which has a fixed focal length of 100mm, so that meant that I only had a certain distance to work with. Once the images were taken however, here came the fun part. In Adobe Photoshop, open an image of your eye and then open an image of the eye feature that you want to use. select the feature type eye that you want to use and then, just like with the Paul M.Smith instructions, use the move tool and transfer the eye, to the image of your eye. Fit it onto the shape of your eye, using the free transformation tool and then set it. Then in the layers pallet, make sure that it is the layers of the image that you have just pasted on and turn the opacity mode to the mode that you think fits well with the two images overlapping. Once you have lined up and selected everything use the background eraser tool to go over parts that are not the eye. So as to be able to recognise the correct parts, turn the opacity mode to a mode that you can see the old eye or just turn the opacity down so that you can see what parts you are erasing. Once that is done, all you have to do is have a little play with colours and lighting effects and then you have your finished image.
The last photo of the edited, is actually an image of a women's face that I downloaded from the internet and the purple eye is a much harder effect to create than the red eye effect. As you can see, it fills the entire eye ball socket, not just the pupils.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Image Manipulation (adding boarders):
Date: 06/01/14
Adding a selection of boarders around the image:
First by adding a white boarder, followed by a black boarder around the white one, then by adding a boarder with a selected colour from the actual image.
Photoshop Process:
Final Finished Image:
Evaluation of what I thought of this Exercise:
All in all I thought that this exercise was really enjoyable. It taught me a little bit more about creating cool and creative boarders for photographs. First what we had to do was choose an image and make sure that it was the right image size, so as to when we went onto the canvas size, it would give it a not too large boarder. Your probably wondering why I chose a photograph of a grave yard and not of something a little more enlightening. Well this is actually one of my more favourite and attractive photographs that I have taken and it goes really well with White, Black and then a selected colour background. The photo itself is really stunning in a way that it has a really strong depth of field. All of the above, print screen shots, show and display all the stages I went through from a simple image, to an image with a white, black and a selected colour from the actual image boarder.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Image Manipulation (Adjustments/Levels, Curves & AUTO settings):
Date: 13/01/14
Original Image:
Manipulation Techniques to fix the Image:
Photoshop exercises, repairing an image, using Image-Adjustments-Levels/Curves, Colour selection.
Original Image:
Manipulation Techniques to fix the Image:
Colour Opposites, using adjustments in Adobe Photoshop:
Black -----------> White
Cyan (turquoise) -----------> Red
Magenta -----------> Green
Yellow -----------> Blue
Repaired Image:
Evaluation of the task:
Well knowing how to do all of these different adjustments already, learning them in a different way quite was fun. Going all over it again, and to actually have a demonstration of what was happening, before I did the task was helpful. In the past I have just been told to try and manipulate an image using my own skills, trying to find my way around the programmes's many different features. Being shown what to do is always quite fun before you actually do the task yourself, that way you know what is expected of you.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Image Manipulation (Combining Colour and Black White, Victorian Style Images:):
Date: 20/01/14
2 different images, both very colourful and have been converted to black and white, in a Victorian Style, so that some of the image is still in faded colour and there are selected parts where the colour of the original image is still vibrant:
1st Image:
Original:
2 different images, both very colourful and have been converted to black and white, in a Victorian Style, so that some of the image is still in faded colour and there are selected parts where the colour of the original image is still vibrant:
1st Image:
Original:
Photoshop Process:
Finished Image:
2nd Image:
Original:
Photoshop Process:
Finished Image:
Evaluation of this task:
A really fun exercise to undergo. It was kind of like doing an exercise where you have a coloured image and you turn it to monochrome and then try to replace the colour on certain areas. The only thing different with this task is that we had to colour in one selected area, really well and then turn the rest of the images' opacity down so that it would turn to Victorian Style. An exercise that I would really want to experiment with.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Image Manipulation (Andy Warhol Images):
Our Task: To go out and shoot a few wide angle images and try to get a certain object or person in the main focal point and then to open the image in photoshop and add to a certain part of the image, a vignette to the specific shape.
4 images in total, 1 before and after, 3 before, processed, and after.
1st Image:
Processed Image:
2nd Image:
Date: 27/01/2014
Our Task: For this particular task I had to photograph a person as a mug shot and create a poster type of the images we had taken using the style of Andy Warhol:
1st, the original image,
Photoshop process:
Final Poster Image of all nine different coloured images combined together to create the Andy Warhol effect:
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| My model was Huw Evans, teacher of Art & Design, A-level & B-TEC |
Related work (Marilyn Monroe, Diptych)
Name of Art: Marilyn Diptych
Artist: Andy Warhol
Year: 1962
Type: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 205.44 cm x 289.56 com (80.88 in x 114.00 in)
Location: Tate Museum, London, Great Britain.
Info: The work was completed during the weeks after Marilyn Monroe's death in August 1962. It contains fifty images of the actress, which are all based on a single publicity photograph from the film Niagara(1953).
The twenty-five pictures on the left side of the diptych are brightly colored, while the twenty-five on the right are in black and white. It has been suggested that the relation between the left side of the canvas and the right side of the canvas is evocative of the relation between the celebrity's life and death.
The piece is currently owned by the Tate. In a December 2, 2004 article in The Guardian, the painting was named the third most influential piece of modern art in a survey of 500 artists, critics, and others.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Image Manipulation (Adding Vignettes to an Image):
Date: 03/02/2014
4 images in total, 1 before and after, 3 before, processed, and after.
1st Image:
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Process:
Final Image:
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3rd Image:
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Process:
Final Image:
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4th Image:
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Process:
Final Image:
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Evaluation of task:
This exercise was actually one of my more favourite photoshop exercises. Why I say that this was one of my more favourite exercises is because, the kind of work is very similar to the work of an artist who does really creative 3D pantings.
Here is an example of his work:
Task: Having got a photograph, shoulder up of a man or a woman, we had to air brush the image in order to make the person look a lot younger than they were in the original image. Plus we also had to get an image of someone who was in a position of looking a little bloated. We had to use the the "liquify" tool to see if we could make them look a little thinner, by following the rule of going along each line of the image.
Assignment 1:
Original Image:
Finished Image:
City of Bristol College:
Here is an example of his work:
The photographs that I have taken, I think really show a resemblance to Les Matthews's work. This particular painting of his, is a really clever image. Using different shapes and colours all over his work is really amazing.
The work that I have just done which is called "Adding Vignettes to an Image" I think is a really fun exercise and it is possible something that I really want to do for myself.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Image Manipulation (Air Brushing An Image):
Date: 10/02/2014
Task: Having got a photograph, shoulder up of a man or a woman, we had to air brush the image in order to make the person look a lot younger than they were in the original image. Plus we also had to get an image of someone who was in a position of looking a little bloated. We had to use the the "liquify" tool to see if we could make them look a little thinner, by following the rule of going along each line of the image.
Assignment 1:
Original Image:
Process:
Process of the second image:
(This had to be done before completing the first image, so that it shows steps that we had to go through before completing the first image):
Process:
Last Process of First Image:
Finished Image:
Evaluation of this task:
This is an exercise that I found quite interesting and did have a creative impact on me by the end of it. By taking a picture of someone who is older than 50, to make them look about 30 years younger is really clever and cool. It's isn't a technique that I would use for my kind of photography, because as I have said in the past, photographing people isn't my style or type of photography. I do agree with this technique in many aspects, in a way that it makes a really old person look like they did when they were in their young ages. It's a really creative technique, but you as the photographer, have to be careful where, when, and why you used it.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Image Manipulation (Word of the Week):
Date: 11/02/2014
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Reflections:
Date: 24/02/14
Today we had to create a reflection inside an image:
1 image we shot ourselves as well as taking one image from the internet.
Original Image:
Photoshop Process:
Finalised Image:
Image from the Internet:
Photoshop Process:
Finalised Image:
Evaluation of this exercise:
This exercise I found quite weird actually. It just seemed and appeared differently. To take a photograph of a solid object and then to create a reflection of that is really creative but also weird as well. The photograph that I took, already had a reflection as it was originally beside the water front, however it wasn't a very clear reflection. So I had to take a separate photograph of water and then impose it onto the reflection of the top part of the image. The was the same process when we did the photograph from the internet, except this time we didn't add a water effect to this one, but we did the Gradient tool effect to make the reflection look like it was coming into the image. At the end of the exercise I rather thought that this had been a good exercise, but reflections are not my strong point. I do admit that they are lovely aspects of photography, but it isn't quite me style.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Date: 24/02/14
WORD FROM THAT WEEK:
WORD FROM THAT WEEK:
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
SNOW AND SNOWFALL:
Date: 03/03/14
Today's exercise was to go out and take a landscape photograph of a certain scene and then in photoshop we had to try and create it in a way of making a spring-summer photo look like a very wintery photograph:
Original Photo:
Evaluation of this task:
One extremely creative task. By taking a photograph of a particularly spring-summery scene and to turn it to make it look like it was taken in, the winter period is really clever. It doesn't look too fake but it is still really cleverly done. and looks really real. Although I think that this is an extremely clever and creative technique, it isn't really my way and style in adopting towards photography. I will admit that it was a really enjoyable task and I thought that it was really worth it, but it isn't really something that I want to pursue.
Today's exercise was to go out and take a landscape photograph of a certain scene and then in photoshop we had to try and create it in a way of making a spring-summer photo look like a very wintery photograph:
Original Photo:
Photoshop Process:
Finalised Image:
One extremely creative task. By taking a photograph of a particularly spring-summery scene and to turn it to make it look like it was taken in, the winter period is really clever. It doesn't look too fake but it is still really cleverly done. and looks really real. Although I think that this is an extremely clever and creative technique, it isn't really my way and style in adopting towards photography. I will admit that it was a really enjoyable task and I thought that it was really worth it, but it isn't really something that I want to pursue.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Essay:
Date: 04/03/14
1,000 words essay comparing two digital
photographers.
The
Photographers:
- Alberto Saro
- Heather Edwards.
From looking at these two photographers’
work I have noticed that they have a lot of works that contrast quite well with
each others.
Some of Edwards’s work:
Some
of Alberto’s work:
As you can see a lot of their works,
particularly their botanical works, they are very similar. Heather seems to do
well with taking the straightforward, whole sharp images, where as Alberto
takes an image, which focuses on one particular part of his shot and then gets
the rest of the image to look like a misty blur. Natural shooting can do these
techniques, or the image can be manipulated in Adobe Photoshop, using different
types of filters or layers.
I rather like how Heather keeps her work of
botany quite simple. They do say that the simple way of photography can get you
quite high up the ladder in creativity in a certain way. Alberto’s way is much
more eye catching, as its like some sort of puzzle. You have to look for the area,
which is sharpest within the slightly blurred image.
Larger Examples of one of each photographer’s
work:
1. Heather Edwards 2. Alberto
Saro.
As you can see there is quite a large
difference between the two photographs, Heather’s being very sharp all over and
Alberto’s being slightly misty and blurred out.
I would like to talk about these two
photographs in particular. Lets start with the bright pink flower of
Heather’s. When you look at it in larger
scale you can see that the main flower is in clear sharp focus, because that is
where the focal point in her camera was focused on. Where as the rest of the
image is out of focus. For this kind of image Heather must have used a high
aperture setting like f/16.0 but a mid-way speed shutter setting of something
like 1/60th of a second. When you have a particular photo like this.
It means that the amount of light coming through the lens would have been very
small. If she was to take the same photograph, she would have to aperture at
about f/5.6, which makes hole in the camera where the light comes through much
bigger. Then she would have to se the shutter speed to a little quicker. At
about 1/100th of a second. Due to the slight darkness of the photo
and the clarity being slight high she has probably made some adjustments in
Adobe Photoshop. She would have added an extra couple of layers and used a few
filters, then boosted the saturation of the image and increased its clarity.
Lets now look at Alberto’s photograph. It
is a completely different style of photograph and has been altered in Adobe
Photoshop slightly. He would have set himself up, so that the camera was low in
the ground so that it looked like there wasn’t too much sky in the image. He
would then also have used a high aperture setting, which means that there was a
low amount of light coming through the little hole in the camera lens and he
would have had the shutter setting at about 1/60th to 1/80th
of a second and then focused on the part that he wanted in clear focus. That
will make that one particular part go into clear focus and then the rest of the
image will blurred out. In Photoshop he would have then create a few extra
layers and added a filter to each one and then changed some of their settings.
Like their curves with in the image and boosted their saturations plus
adjusting the bright and dark areas in the level settings of the image.
Here I will try to show some of the editing
ways they used in Photoshop.
Original Image: Modified Image:
To get from the original photo to the
modified one, there several process in Photoshop, which you have to go through.
First you have to add a new layer so that you don’t work in the original
background layer, which is opens as a locked layer, so now adjustments to it
can be undone or saved. Next you have to go down the side bar and choose the
appropriate selection tool and select the part, which you want to blur out
slightly. Once the area you want is selected you go to the top bar and select filter
and you go down to blur and then select Gaussian Blur, which is by far one of
the most successful blur tools. After you have blurred out the part that you
want slightly blurred, you then select the inverse so that the clear focused
parts of the image are now selected. You then go to
image-adjustments-hue/saturation and move the cursors around until you are
satisfied with the end result. With that now done you then go to the sharpen on
the side tool bar and very lightly brush over the area that you want to have
sharpened. After sharpening the image,
particularly the specific part, if you see that you can still see the line
where the selection was, select the blur tool from the tool bar and just go
over the line, which the selection was marked. At the end you should have a
brilliantly edited out image, ready for display and selling.
Evaluation of this essay:
Writing about two different photographers
and contrasting their work and how they manipulate their images in adobe
Photoshop, isn’t easy for me. I have always found comparing different artists’
work challenging. I suppose that is triggered by my determination to try to
think of my own ideas and don’t really want to think about and look at other
people’s work. This essay had a certain impact on me though. I have written
about one artist who I personally know and one who I have never heard of and
what hit me was is how similar their work is. They capture things in a very
similar style and way. By having an image, where you have one particular part
in clear sharp focus and the rest is slightly misty blurred out, but you can
still the shape of the image quite clearly. A really enjoyable essay because I
got to write about someone that I personally know.
Bibliography:
Bibliography:
- https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=heather+edwards+photography&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=nKshU4fDOqTH7Aa2nYCgBQ&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1050&bih=641
- http://www.suecallister.com/mono_culturecatalogue.html
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Selfies:
Date: 09/03/2014
Title of Project: Selfies
This project was aimed at me to take a few photographs of myself over a period of 35 days and then combine them all together to create one big montage, mixed up of images of myself. We could be on our own in the image or we could have someone else in the image as well. The only thing we couldn't do was use two images that were taken on the same day.
Here are the images of me:
Photoshop process of combining them all together:
Final Combination of my selfies:
Evaluation
of Selfies Project:
Over these last few weeks, this project on
collecting a number of images of me each week has been a rather unusual task,
but what is interesting about it, is to see what clothes I was wearing on that
particular day.
Taking images of myself, or either with
someone else in the picture, isn’t really my style of working in photography
but it does have some impact on things.
It allows you to look back at yourself from
days past and remember what happened on those particular days and what sort of
clothing that you were wearing.
Taking the photographs is the easy part,
but the difficult part is doing all of the combining in Adobe Photoshop. I say
its difficult but actually it isn’t that hard. It is basically dragging the
images from FOLDERS to a new page in Photoshop, then all you have to do
is use the free transformation feature, which allows you to resize the image to
the scale that you feel is best fit. Then add an effect like a Drop Shadow to
that particular image. Once all the images are on the page and you have made
all of the necessary adjustments, you are free to display your work as a work
of fine creative and technological art.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Date: 09/03/2014
WORD OF THE WEEK:
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
Tilt+Shift:
Date: 17/03/13
Tilt+Shift Images
A photograph/image where you have it divided into three sections, within the image: similar to a Triptych, but instead of being cut up, its still one image. The top and bottom parts of the image are in a slightly blurred mode and then the centre is crystal clear.
Original Image:
Photoshop Process:
Final Image:
Tilt+Shift Images
A photograph/image where you have it divided into three sections, within the image: similar to a Triptych, but instead of being cut up, its still one image. The top and bottom parts of the image are in a slightly blurred mode and then the centre is crystal clear.
Original Image:
Evaluation of this exercise:
This being another image manipulation task, it is something that contributes to my extras in learning about photoshop. By dividing the image into three different sections, the centre being crystal clear and then then top and bottom parts being blurred out. I didn't mind doing this particular exercise but I don't have any idea of when I would use this particular technique for my photography. I will admit that this is a very clever and creative technique but I just don't see how it would work for me. It might work for someone else, but just not for me.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
iDVD Slideshow:
Date: 31/03/13
Mindmap and Statement of intent for my slideshow.
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
iDVD Slideshow:
Date: 05/05/13
Contact Sheet of 5 samples of each slideshow:
Second Statement of intent:
City of Bristol College:
Contact Sheet of 5 samples of each slideshow:
City of Bristol College:
BTEC Photography Course:
Title of Unit:
iDVD Slideshow:
Date: 13/05/13
Influence behind my work (poem, music, book etc) and reason for selection:
The influence behind my slideshow has come from a variety of different things. The 6 different pieces of music that I have chosen, one for the opening and then 5 different ones for the actual shows, are pieces of music that I have loved for ages and they all really fit well with the show that they are apart of.
For the opening menu, I chose Hoppipolla, by well known artist Sigur Ros, which has been a huge favourite of mine for a long time. It has that magical scenes of achievement inside it, and it is also quite an emotional piece of music as well. For example the first time that I heard this piece of music it was on a program called "Extreme Dreams," by Ben Fogle and he and his team of travellers had just reached their goal at the top of Volcano Carona and the Tropic of Capricorn, in the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile. The second time that I heard this wonderful tune was, watching a Planet Earth Video, and that was such a huge inspiration for me that is where I found my true love for this particular music. Having it as my opening tune for my slideshow, with different pictures within the slideshow as the opening scenes really work well.
Inside the slideshow menu each of the different shows have different music. For Arnos Vale Cemetery, I chose my favourite piece of music in the world, I Vow to Thee My Country. It is a very British song and it is a song of remembrance, so having it as a song for an ancient grave yard fits really well.
For WorldWide Views, I chose a piece of music that is originally from the selection of sample music which is called "Minuet in G" Ever since I first heard this piece of music I have always had a love for it. It is a really good piece of music that displays well with photos taken in exotic places. When I did my trip to Hong Kong, Phuket and Thailand, when I displayed them on the computer, this piece of music fitted quite uniquely with the photos.
For the Close-Up Slideshow I chose a piece of music, that I came across when I was researching my Ocean Liner project, The title of the show, which had this particular music came from is called One Last Hope, and the pice of music is called 10,000 miles. This is a really magical piece of music to fit in with my Close-Up slideshow.
For my slideshow of Ronda, Andalucia, Spain I actually chose a version of the Spanish National Anthem because, it is a very traditional Spanish City and the National Anthem of the country is one of the only pieces of Spanish music that I know really well. I played the tune through with the slides changing and it is all timed really well with the pictures changing.
Finally for the slideshow of the Semana Santa Processiones de San Roque, I chose one of the most loving and magical pieces of music that I have ever known. "Time to say Goodbye" This kind of music is used, generally to say farewell to something special or its the end of an era. For example, when the famous Cunard Cruise, the QE2 docked in Dubai after her 40 year career, that symbolised the end of a long era and that is how I began to get a love for this song.
Evaluation of iDVD Slideshow and an honest Appraisal of my final results:
This slideshow has probably been some of the most fun that I have ever done, linked to the unit Image Manipulation. It doesn't look like its a really complicated process to go through, but it does show a few challenges. Before you even think about using iDVD, you have to resize the images in Adobe Bridge. Once that is done, you have to find your music that is best suited to your photos. Most people might find this hard. I found this bit very easy because I already knew which pieces of music which fitted with the different selections of photos that I had. Once in iDVD all I had to do was the magic of combining all of them together, with the magic tools. Once I had done one slideshow, I couldn't help the fact that I still had plenty of photos and quite a few more music samples left, so instead of hang just one slideshow I decided to have 5 different ones.
My final result is I achieved more than I was originally asked to do. Instead of doing just one Statement of intent, I did two. I added four extra slideshows to me iDVD project, which all have a personal inspiration and connection to me and I feel like this was a really enjoyable project. One that looks like it is really difficult to do, but I have throughly enjoyed this particular task for Image Manipulation and would highly recommend it for future students.
Final DVD, is on a actual CD-R4 DVD disk.
Evaluation of Image Manipulation:
It was just before October Half-Term, when we first started doing this topic, and I will admit, I wasn't very creative when it first started. I think now, I am a very different person. I have definitely become more creative and imaginative person, since this project started and I have loved every exercise that we have done as a group and as individuals. I have always done a little bit extra for this topic, because it has always seemed to get me the higher marks, which is fantastic. When I had my final tutorial last week I was told by Alan, that it has been a really pleasure going through this topic and that it has defiantly made me more creative and imaginative in thinking towards photography.
For WorldWide Views, I chose a piece of music that is originally from the selection of sample music which is called "Minuet in G" Ever since I first heard this piece of music I have always had a love for it. It is a really good piece of music that displays well with photos taken in exotic places. When I did my trip to Hong Kong, Phuket and Thailand, when I displayed them on the computer, this piece of music fitted quite uniquely with the photos.
For the Close-Up Slideshow I chose a piece of music, that I came across when I was researching my Ocean Liner project, The title of the show, which had this particular music came from is called One Last Hope, and the pice of music is called 10,000 miles. This is a really magical piece of music to fit in with my Close-Up slideshow.
For my slideshow of Ronda, Andalucia, Spain I actually chose a version of the Spanish National Anthem because, it is a very traditional Spanish City and the National Anthem of the country is one of the only pieces of Spanish music that I know really well. I played the tune through with the slides changing and it is all timed really well with the pictures changing.
Finally for the slideshow of the Semana Santa Processiones de San Roque, I chose one of the most loving and magical pieces of music that I have ever known. "Time to say Goodbye" This kind of music is used, generally to say farewell to something special or its the end of an era. For example, when the famous Cunard Cruise, the QE2 docked in Dubai after her 40 year career, that symbolised the end of a long era and that is how I began to get a love for this song.
Evaluation of iDVD Slideshow and an honest Appraisal of my final results:
This slideshow has probably been some of the most fun that I have ever done, linked to the unit Image Manipulation. It doesn't look like its a really complicated process to go through, but it does show a few challenges. Before you even think about using iDVD, you have to resize the images in Adobe Bridge. Once that is done, you have to find your music that is best suited to your photos. Most people might find this hard. I found this bit very easy because I already knew which pieces of music which fitted with the different selections of photos that I had. Once in iDVD all I had to do was the magic of combining all of them together, with the magic tools. Once I had done one slideshow, I couldn't help the fact that I still had plenty of photos and quite a few more music samples left, so instead of hang just one slideshow I decided to have 5 different ones.
My final result is I achieved more than I was originally asked to do. Instead of doing just one Statement of intent, I did two. I added four extra slideshows to me iDVD project, which all have a personal inspiration and connection to me and I feel like this was a really enjoyable project. One that looks like it is really difficult to do, but I have throughly enjoyed this particular task for Image Manipulation and would highly recommend it for future students.
Final DVD, is on a actual CD-R4 DVD disk.
Evaluation of Image Manipulation:
It was just before October Half-Term, when we first started doing this topic, and I will admit, I wasn't very creative when it first started. I think now, I am a very different person. I have definitely become more creative and imaginative person, since this project started and I have loved every exercise that we have done as a group and as individuals. I have always done a little bit extra for this topic, because it has always seemed to get me the higher marks, which is fantastic. When I had my final tutorial last week I was told by Alan, that it has been a really pleasure going through this topic and that it has defiantly made me more creative and imaginative in thinking towards photography.
