PART 3

For the third part of this mini breif we had combine two of our own images using some form of digital post production. The techniques i decided to use in both my final pieces for this part were cutting and layering. Here is how i did the first one.
The two images i decided to use were as follows.



First of all i opened the shot of me on the steps in photoshop, i then cut me out of the shot using the lasoo tool and pressed cut, leaving esentialy a white silouhet of me on the steps.


Now i quite like this image just like this but the breif states that it must be a combination of 2 images. So i got to thinking that maybe a bit of sky where my cut out is would be nice. So i layered the other image behind this one in the same way i've done all my others in this brief. This time i used a different blend on the layer and went for Hard Light which made the clouds come through real nice. Here is the finished article.


The second image i created in this mini brief is in my opinion the best image i have created in this brief and was achieved in pretty much the same way as the one above. The only difference is that i had to increase the canvas size and i also chose a different blend in the layering process, i chose Overlay. Anyway here are the two origional images.



The image you can see of me against the wall is actually from my studio project but i really like those images and wanted to work with them. As i said it's pretty much the same idea as the last one, here is the shot with me cut out of it.


Again i quite like it this but this one looks pretty good layered as well. Here is the final final image with the other image layered into it.


All of these images have at somepoint undergone some sort of colour and tone alteration in light room, all of this was done before the i started manipulating them.
One thing that i will take away from this little project is that i now know what i am going to do for my final images in the Digital Post Production module. Considering that i am so happy with the outcome of these last two images i thought i would continue with the theme of cutting myself out of images.

PART 2

For the second part of this brief we had to rework two of our own images with the edition of a scanned object. The first image i reworked was this one i took in Manchester of myself.


This one was done with a self-timer, i just propped it on the table and posed! the way i reworked was by first cutting it out on Photoshop using the lasoo tool, shown here.


The next thing i did was to scan in a few of my polaroids with a few other found images from my room at 300 dpi shown below. Reason for it being 300 dpi is because it is the optimum dpi for scanning, it's the quickest and you cant tell the diference between 300 dpi and anything above that quality wise. Here it is.


Once i had the two images on the computer i layered them on top of one another. I selected the scanned image (ctrlA+ctrlC) select all then copy then pressed ctrlV to add it as a layer. I then played around with diferent blends untill i decided on Lighten. Here is the final Image.


For my second image in this section i decided to merge one of my polaroids with one of my digital shots. The idea was to frame the digital shot within the frame of the polaroid creating a new polaroid. Here are the two origional images.



To start with i opened the scanned image of the polaroid in photoshop then i cropped it using the cropping tool. I then selected the cropped image (Free Transform ctrl T) and enlarged insuring that i held down shift whilst doing it so the image enlarged to scale, then pressed enter to render it to full quality. Once this was done i opened the digitalm image. I then layered the scanned image on top of the digital image the same way i did my first image. Because i wanted the polaroid to sit slightly lower than the digital image i increased the canvas size of the digital image. This allowed me to move the polaroid slightly off the edge of the digital image without loosing any of the polaroids frame. Finally i selected a blend that i wanted, lighten again and left the opacity at 100%, here is the end result.

MINI BRIEF

CROPPING!!!

Cropping of an image can be used for a number of reasons ranging from just changing the aesthetics eg framing to completey changing the meaning of an image.
For this mini-brief we were asked to crop some images to alter their meaning. I chose to crop my own images and atempt to give them a new meaning. I will show the cropped image first then the origional.





The reason for this crop is to lead the viewer to believe that this photo was taken in Scotland. I did this by cropping it so there is only the old man playing his bagpipes in the frame and bagpipes and a kilt i'm sure you'll agree are great signifiers of Scotish heritage. When you look at the whole uncropped image you realise that it is taken in London and you know this because in the background is possibly Londons most famous landmark the houses of parliment and bigben.

2nd Crop




The reason for this crop is to confuse the viewer as to what the real frame of the shot is. Once you see the original uncropped image you realise that it is actually a frame within a frame. This only works bacause the cropped image is a strong image in itself.