Experimental Photoshopping

 



Above are edits of some of the artichoke photographs. In the bottom two shots I have added in an edited version of a wire figure I made. I change the colours in photoshop using the curve tool to alter the colour balances. I prefer the bottom left to the bottom right because the string that the wire figure is attached to has been placed so the blue in the string and in the artichoke merge together. The bottom right figure has been warped because the string wouldn't cover the entire image which didn't work well, so I warped the figure to make it closer to the blue colours shown in the highlights
of the artichoke.

 

the green dreamcatcher has a spider web inspiured weave. The screen shot below the green is the image after altering the curve levels. The bottom left image is an inverted version of a wire eye of mexico I tried to make.  Right image is my wire figure i made with the background removed, unfortunatly the string it was attached to is still present, which is odd as everything appeared removed, but it is not important so no need to perfect the art of the eraser tool for that image.

Bus Ride Home

Once more, earlier on in the project, when I didn't have a more directed focus to work towards, I decided to record my journey on the bus home from the market hall to Laxey. Like with the sound recording, the files are way too big to even try and attempt to upload them onto this blog so I want to speed them up and compress the file size too.

Using Adobe Premier Pro to shorten and speed up the videos so they only  last a few minutes instead of realtime, I then had to use Adobe Media Encoder to compress the file size further for the video showing my journey home from Douglas to Onchan (first video).

 note:there should be no sound on these videos, I removed any sound if there was any as I was only trying to capture what I could see, I also don't think the mic was turned on on my phone but I didnt want to record noise anyway.The video on the right, that should end at 2.25 too... unfortunately the video files I had aren't on my sd card or laptop as I was using the computer at the market hall.

Studio Lighting - Coloured Gels

The 5 photographs around the right and bottom sides are a few of the shots I took whilst experimenting in the studio with coloured gels placed in front of the red head lights. When we were in the studio we found some paper models and an artichoke lying around so we used them as our subject matter.

 

 

 

Studio Lighting - Light Painting

  

                                                       


The images on the left are the originals, with the edited images on the right beside them. I used photoshop CS6 to edit the JPEG images. The levels were altered, the dodge and burn tool was used and I cropped them. The first image is just a black and white image with no level changes or cropping or a dodge and burn tool used. Images were taken in the studio with a provided camera from the college. Led lights were used to light up the two smokey shots and the smoke was achieved by exhaling after holding the smoke from an electronic cigarette.

Pin Hole Coke Cans - Success!

Success! Out of the pinhole cameras that I did use, most of them came out okay. I still don't find them very clear but I am able to make sense of most of them.

10+ minute exposure

16 minute exposure

5 minute exposure

16 minute exposure

3 minute exposure

6 minute exposure

10 minute exposure

Pinhole Coke Cans

So.. last post I wrote.. never published. So either I was silly and forgot to add more to it or the internet failed me again and stopped it working.

Anyway, so far I have collected 20 useable coke/lemonade cans to create some pinhole cameras. Don't worry, I didn't drink any of them.. I collected the empty cans from my work over the weekend shifts I do. However, after overcoming the issue of where to get the cans from and cleaning them I then had to make the lids. I had thought to use black paper that I've been using for my paper-cutting work. This paper I thought was too thin and would let light in, so I used black car spray paint and spray two pieces of A3 paper I had stashed away at home. Unfortunately I don't think I have enough spray paint to do more paper as the A3 sheets only did enough to make 10lids... But.. if I can find some more sheets of blank paper, that might be a good place to start.

Reason for 20cans is that unless I go up to the main college campus and use the darkroom and do pinhole images at college, I have no way of developing them on location. So my way around this is to do the same thing several times with different exposure times. For example, I would spin around again looking at the pinhole camera and I would spin for 15seconds, 25 seconds and 35seconds. Depends on the light though and the location, but as I've no idea really with how long to expose the photographic paper for, it's all going to be a bit of trial and error. (Mainly error most likely)

I put the photographic paper in the first 10cans at home. Hoping that the paper hasn't fogged... Only time will tell though!

Darkroom

Finally put my pin hole camera up outside, I did that in the last weekend of October. If I can get a picture when it's light and not raining il post a copy here. It looks so random outside. I placed it facing south, in the hope il get the sun in the shot. It's been lousy weather though so no idea how this will work. Tied it up to the gutter but didn't have any gaffa tape so I'm greatfull the ties have stayed strong, although I did have to double them up as even the long ties I had weren't long enough.

Didn't do much over half term unfortunately, was trying to catch up on other work I had too. Also didn't update the blog either as the Internet has been dodgy these past few weeks. (Plus I didn't have much to say either)

Couple weeks ago, before the pinhole workshop, the class and I tried out a wide format camera. This week we finally got to develop it. Out of the images I took the first one was the clearest so I decided to create a print. I did this as I was waiting to use the negative scanner, but by the time I'd finished in the darkroom all the scanner equipment had been put away.

edit:

after developing the negatives Adrian said he would scan them for me so I could get digital copies of them. Above are the two photographs which I took using the wide format camera. The images aren't as sharp as they were originally because I had placed these onto a Photoshop file along with other work ready to be printed. When I came back to update this blog page I must have left them on a different computer or deleted them so I had to crop the Photoshop file so you could only see the photographs above.

The photograph on the right was the first shot I took, I was pleased with the results as everything that should be in focus, was in focus. The photograph on the left was the second shot I took, unfortunately I didn't manage to get it focused properly.