Week 6- Charron Sister Portraits

Week 5- Emotional Emily (Creating Emotion)

 This particular photo of Ms. Mountford that I edited this week was inspired by the green-blue look of her eyes which I translated through into the background and tone of the photograph using blue-green colour variations. These photos were supposed to create different moods based on the colours and model's expression-- this one was "content". I also adjusted the contrast and levels to make her eyes pop out and her lips less noticable.

 This photo of Emily was taken with the purpose of creating an impact with her expression. The look on her face was supposed to convey anger, frustration and unsurpressable expression of emotion. The colour of her eyes is intense against the grey background ( with very little contrast ) and her red-brown hair.

 This photo uses warm colours to show a happy, more care-free Emily. Her expression shows her trying to hide a BIG smile, by bringing her cody inward (arms and face). She just simply looks happy enough to burst out laughing and the warm colours accent her warm hearted look.

In this photo I tried to make her look deep in thought, bored or even slightly concerned. Again, I used a blue photo filter to bring down the mood of the photo and I enhanced the colour of her hair to look purple-ish. I also used the colour replacement tool to change the colour of her shirt from purple to blue, as well as the background.

Week 4- PhotoShop Learning Expirience

Okay so although I took on this assignment this summer and I was not yet enrolled in Photography 101, I thought it would make an interesting addition to my blog and showcase a lot of the skills I have accumulated over the past couple of years. The above photos are of aspiring model Jenna Allard, a St. Basils graduate. I was not the photographer in the creative team it took to pull them off, I was the photoshop artist. This meant that I would take the finished, raw photography and edit it into a poster for Glow, a night club down town. My job was to make a clear advertisement and make the model look good. Included in the photos displayed, there is the raw photo I was given, 2 mirror image shots of the same photo with completely different looks, and the finished poster. Below is an entirely different photo, from the same photoshoot, before and after I was done. I boosted the contrast, saturated the lips and adjusted the levels. I also added more green and blue in the colour variations and croped the photo. I learned a lot about meeting client demands and target audiences from this task. I also got to expiriment a lot with different "moods" in images. Colour, angle, hue, etc all play a huge role in the impression that the viewer takes away from the work of art. Enjoy :)

Week 3- Emily's Portraits

During week 3 of commtech this year, I was intrigued by practicing portraiture. I wanted to experiment in the school's studio with one of my close friends, Emily Mountford. I changed the back drop in order to contrast her big blue eyes and make them pop. My goal with this shoot was to showcase her beauty in a different way than I have done other times. I like these photos because they are very expressive. After an hour in the studio, I took the photos into photoshop elements and toyed around with saturation, distorion and colour. I adjusted the levels, contast and colour variations in each picture to convey a different feeling. In each picture progressing from the top, the satursation is lowered, and in my opinion, it creates a different feeling in the viewer, or a different mood. Please leave constructive critism , I am always looking to improve and for new ideas. I think next I will tackle Themed Photography. I want to develope an intense story for the viewer through a few dramatic photographs. I learned this week that using the studio to your advantage can make great things happen, and experimentation leads to success!

Week 2- Depth of Feild

During week 2 of commtech, we learned about how to use shutter speed and f-stops to control depth of feild. Larger apertures (smaller F-stop number) and closer focal distances produce a shallower depth of field. Fashion photographers often use depth of feild to their advantage because it helps to place only the model and his/her clothing into focus, not the background and distracting objects. I will need to fine-tune my skills in creating shallow and long focal distances to create variation in my photography. I found it quite interesting and a lot more involved when I shut the Auto Focus option off on the camera. It allowed me to get exactly the look I was trying to find. The following 2 pictures were 2 of my first shots experimenting with the lens and I actually quite liked the variety of new views I saw just by opening my mind more. I learned a lot about focusing and shutter speeds from using our manual slr film cameras. I still have yet to develope them. The first colourful photo is of the character ed painting at the front entrance. I loves the colour and the ripples of words, so I got close (photography tip) and used a unique anle to show depth of feild. I tried to make the middle of the photo  more clear than the rest to highlight the words used, such as "responsibility". The second photo, I got down to ground level and got close enough to make out the burning details of the discarded ciggarette on the sidewalk. I think I like this photo because you don't often see a smoke this way and it is mostly in focus. The subject of the photo is clear and it is off centered. :)