Tuesday 12th January 2016

Today we looked at Photoshop, in which we talked about layer masking and airbrushing, this process was done by taking a portrait photo we had taken and creating 2 layers, one sharp and one soft, we created the sharp layer by increasing the clarity and the soft layer by decreasing the clarity. We then had to rasterise the sharp layer, then layer mask and paint brush where we wanted to make the models features softer. Here is the original image that Bridey took of Jordan which I used and the edited version of the image, as you can see the features on his face that you would want to be softer have been made softer and features on his face you would want to be bolder and stand out better have been made sharper. In this session we also looked at fashion photographers such as David la chapel, Nick Knight, Rich Lewis, Dave Hill and many others.

 

In the afternoon we had a session on the law and ethics of photography, this included looking at an article on a photographer that had taken a photo for photojournalism, and had photo shopped it and the company thought it was wrong for them to do that. We were asked our opinions on what we thought and were told to write a 250 word assignment on our opinions on two quotes from the article. Once we had completed that we were allowed to go out and take photo's. Me, Amy and Jordan went to Beaumont park to take some pictures.