Digital
Photography
Name: Student Number:
Andrew Nangpi NAN09270210
Elective 2010
Studio
Portraits; Produce two portrait images of the same subject The two images should express different and distinct moods through composition, facial expression, pose and/or lighting.
This mood expresses curiousity and a sense of sadness. This is achieved by the compostion of the subject not being central in the image. The subject also looking away from the camera and facing the light source gives a sad impression, with the diffused light subtly reflecting back at her direction creating softer shadows.
This image expresses joy and happiness. With the soft lighting and white background used it has enabled the image to lighten and diffuse the lighting better to keep the image bright and clear. Compared to the image on the left, the white background prevents the subject of having darker shadows to keep the image bright and cheerful.
in the style of...
Philippe
Halsman (1906 - 1979)
“When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.� The photographer developed a philosophy of jump photography, which he called jumpology. He published Philippe Halsman's Jump Book in 1959, which contained a tongue-incheek discussion of jumpology and 178 photographs of celebrity jumpers.
Edward Steichen - photographed by Philippe Halsman
Here, I’ve tried to copy Halsman’s Lighting. His background is well lit and giving no shadows off it. However, on the subject (jumping), his shadows are complimentary and soft. It shows soft shadows within his suit, his face his hands etc, and seems like there is additional light coming the top left angle to produce this shadow when capturing his jump. This has inspired me because of the meaning behind it. Capturing a moment of jumping allows the picture to become surreal and attractive. Capturing it in a photograph enables the moment to last longer and to admire the moment of it. Here I’ve tried to capture the subject’s jump with her hair, her dress and her scarf motioned in the air. I’ve added shoes at the bottom to also show the height from the ground in which she jumped from. My digital interpretation shows that an old image used for influence can still be captured and done today with the similar lighting used and the positioning. Today the digital age has an increase in pixels to produce fine and high quality images. The only difference between them is that colour is shown. Because of colour, the lighting can be identified to control the contrast or brightness an the image.
Photo
Manipulation Here is the before image and this photo will be used on photoshop to be manipulated. What is demonstrated is a simple colour contrast on the shirt. On the head of the image, there are small bald spots and those are covered to make the hair pattern smoother. Also, the brightness and contrast is altered which is played around slightly on the after image. On the other page shows a list of photoshop tools that were used to undergo the process of the before and after image.
before
after
Photoshop tools and Techniques used: • Duplicate Background - This is to not lose the original image incase the manipulations doesnt become successful • Magic Wand Tool - by the using ‘Shift key’ adds to the exisiting ‘running ants/selected area’ on shirt. Adjusting tolerance to ensure that the magic wand can obtain the closes detail when zoomed in. • Lasso Tool (& Shift Key) - to select areas that the magic wand tool cannot select - completes the selected area of the t-shirt (free hand) • Hue & Saturation - Only the hue was adjusted to change to colour of the shirt. • Clone Stamp Tool - Feathered brush size is used to blend in stamp when used on the head which gives smoother edges on stamp. Similar areas were cloned on the hair to cover any bald spots on head. • Curves - a New Layer Adjustment curve is used to not mess up the lighting on the original image. • Paint Brush (Black) - this does the opposite and highlights the well lit areas and leaving the adjusted curves for the darker shadows in the image.
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Exploration Experimentation 1. This picture shows an image of an icicle on my car that you rarely find in England especially when hardly snows. This was a good chance for me to a capture a depth of field and a macro-like shot; where the icicle is in focus and the background is gradually getting out of focus. This also creates a sense of distance to show that the other icicles are further away. With the aperture low, it creates the atmosphere of being cold and gloomy.
2. This image is a portrait of my brother again using depth of field. I’ve put this on because I like creating an image where the subject is focused and making it not central to the image; whilst holding the focus button half way enables me to move the camera to create a composition out of the central zone making the subject more eye catching because its unusual. Also how the lighting that day was very soft giving softer shadows by mainly controlling the aperture.
3. This image experiments shutter speed. This image shows being on a fly-over on top of a motorway and taking a picture of the motion of the lights from cars that drive by. What I had to do is to create a very slow shutter speed around 5-10 seconds to capture the lights. Without a tripod I had to keep the camera as still as possible because I wanted to obtain a still landscape and the cars and lights in motion hence which creates lines of lights.
4. This is an image of a beautiful red sunset which aesthetically creates natural vibrant colours. This was obtained by adjusting the aperture without flash and also adjusting the shutter speed. This was taken at the perfect timing just before the sun went down. Because the only light is coming from the sunset, it has created a silhouette of the fence and the tree leaves making them dark in shadow and leaving the vibrant colours in the sky to shine behind it.
These 4 images where all taken by an Olympus e420 camera.