Evaluation.

I have now finished all of my work and I am rather happy with it. I have learnt a lot of new ideas that I did not know before from shooting an image to the editing of it. For me my main learning experience was in the studio, I had never done any work in a photo studio before so the experience was new to me. I had worked with lighting in University so new the main principals of shadow and colour but had no idea how to use that with a camera. In this course I learnt how to use my skill with lighting and a camera and mix that in to creating 6 images that I am very happy with. Some of the images did not come out how I saw them in my head but they did come out very close, I also felt that one image was not strong enough or good enough so changed that idea and it worked out a lot better that the original idea.

I also learnt a few new Photoshop ideas as well, as I wanted to create some effects that I had never tried before, those main effects being the explosion, the retro colours and the motion blur. I also new a little about noise and how it could effect an image but I had never used it before so this gave me a very good opportunity to use this effect and see how it looked on an image. I found the Photoshop process to be very slow at times as it was trial and error getting the right effect and some times after a lot of work the image just did not feel right so I started from scratch using different effects.

Finally my research was one of the hardest things I think I had to do on this cause, my main problem was choosing who to do as there are lots of people out there, and lots of people inspired my work but I could only pick 10. So out of the 10 I chose I made sure to pick the strongest photographers who had influenced me the most. I loved looking at different photographers and there work and I also made a point of using books not just the internet to gather my research as I find just looking on the internet to be boring.

Over all I am happy with my work and how my ideas have turned out, they look very similar to the ideas that I put down on paper and had in my head.  

Final 4 Edited Images.

The Blast.



Love The Bomb.

Watch Them Go To War.



What If? 

Edited image 4.

This is my final image, first I had to make the explosion to put on the image and I am going to show how I made that first.

1.Start off with a new image of your size with a black background. Create a new layer. Create dots with the Airbrush, use a 100px brush.

2.Now do some work with the smudge tool. Drag the Smudge Tool from out to in and in to out to get a nice effect.

4.Now to add more depth, start off by using different brushes. Use the grungy brushes and make sparkles coming out of the explosion. Do some more smudging, add more brushing.

5.Use the Burn Tool, Now go over your white boring explosion and brush... Release your mouse button and brush over it to create some dark parts and some lighter.

6.Duplicate your layer and set it to hard light. Then go Image - Adjustments - Colour Balance. Set the
color until happy and like in my image below.

7.Duplicate that layer you just made, and set it to Color Burn, again go to Image - Adjustments - Colour Balance Change using the setting below.

8. I then changed the Opacity level until happy.

 9.Finally with the Magic Eraser Tool, I took out all of the black background on all the layers and then Flattened the image.

10.Open the images you want to use. Got to File-Open.

11.With both the Magic Eraser Tool and just the Eraser Tool I deleted all of the background on the person image, I used the Zoom tool to get in close to detailed areas.

12.Next I need to highlight the person so I went to the Rectangular Marquee tool, I then selected around the person, once that was done I went to the Move Tool and dragged the person on to the background layer this created a new layer.

13.I now need to angle the person and resize them to make it look like they have been blown back in a blast. We go to Edit-Free Transform and a box will come around the person, you then use that to re-size them to the size that you want and angle them.

14.Next I need to highlight the blast so I went to the Rectangular Marquee tool, I then selected around the blast, once that was done I went to the Move Tool and dragged the blast on to the background layer this created a new layer.

15.My next task is to blur all three layers to make it look like the image has movement. I went to Filters-Blur-Motion Blur. You then get a box up to change the settings of the blur from the angle to the amount of blur. Do this until you are happy.

16. Last of all I went to the Smudge Tool and added a bit of smug to the person to add even more movement. Once done I Flattened all the layers and saved.

Final Image.

Settings: Person. 

Canon EOS 5D

f/7.3

Exposure time 1/60 sec

Zoom 24mm

ISO 100

Settings: Background. 

Sony A200

f/5.6

Exposure time 1/160 sec

Zoom 100mm

ISO 100

Photoshop CS5

Edited Image 3.

This is one of my more harder edits as there was a lot to do for it, there was the preparing of the bomb image and the image of the person, I then did a retro colour scheme over the whole image to make it look an old poster from the 60’s.

1. Open the images you want to use. Got to File-Open.

2.Go to Eraser tool, you can change the size of the eraser by right clicking on the image you want to edit once you have the eraser tool selected. Then you need to zoom in on the image to delete all the back ground, do this by going to View-Zoom in. Then erase around the edge of the Bomb. For the person click the Eraser Tool then right click it you will then get 3 options click on Magic Eraser Tool, then click on the white background and it will take it all away leaving only the person left.

3.Next I needed to colour out the stand that the bomb is in, so I go to the Eye Dropper tool and click on the yellow of the bombs nose. Then I go to the Brush Tool and colour out the stand. The blend all of the colour together I then went to the Blur Tool (looks like a water droplet) right clicked it and went to Smudge. I then smudged the colour together.

 4.Now I want to erase the left arm of the subject as that won’t be seen because if she really was hugging a bomb it would be behind the bomb and out of view. I go to the Erase Tool and just erase the left arm.

5.Now I need to remove the right arm so that I can place it over the top of the bomb once the bomb is in place. I got to the Rectangular Marquee tool and select the arm, one I have done that I go to the Move Tool and move the arm out of the way. Once that is Done I create a new layer and copy and past the arm in to the new layer and make sure that layer is above the bomb one. I then eraser the arm on the other layer. Then to move the bomb on to the person layer I again select the Rectangular Marquee tool highlight all of the bomb and then select the Move Tool and drag the bomb over to the person image. Before moving the bomb I had to turn in around so the nose was at the top, I did this by highlighting all of the bomb and the clicking Image-Image Rotation-Flip Vertical. I then move the arm back over the top of the bomb.     

6.I then added a colour to the back ground of the image, to do this I went to the Colour Pallet at the bottom right of the screen and found a colour that I liked. I created a new layer and placed it at the bottom of all the other layers. Then with the Brush Tool I coloured the new layer.   

7.Its now time to add the Retro colour effect. Open up the photograph and Duplicate The Layer by right clicking the background layer and selecting Duplicate Layer. (Make sure to use the copy layer)  

8.Using the Rectangular Marquee Tool, drag and select half the image.

9.Select the red color from the Color Swatch. Now, fill the selection with the red with the shortcut ctrl+backspace.

10.Now, inverse this selection. This would select the other half of the image.
Select-Inverse.

11.Fill the other selection with a green color.

 12.Hide the duplicate Background Copy layer by clicking on the Eye Icon. Click on the Background Layer. Then, click on Match Color in the menu bar.
Image-Adjustments-Match Color.

13.Start with Fade and increase the levels, until the green and red patches blend in with the photo. Next, decrease the color intensity until you’re happy with the result. You don’t need to do anything with Luminance, unless you want to decrease or increase the brightness.

 14.Once done I added Text by going to the T at the right of the screen. I played with the Warp Setting until happy.

Final Image.

Settings: Person 

Canon EOS 5D

f/7.1

Exposure time 1/60 sec

Zoom 28mm

ISO 100

Settings:Bomb

Sony A200

f/5.6

Exposure time 1/60 sec

Zoom 18mm

ISO 100

Photoshop CS5

Photoshop 7.0