All throughout taking and editing my photos I tried to show a wide range of skills despite it not being my strongest area of media. I took 100 photos on a Canon EOS 600D (DSLR camera) and edited my favourite portraiture 5 photos in Adobe Photoshop CC. A strength of mine during this was that I knew how to use studio lighting to my advantage. I chose my favourite five photos and edited them so they would be suitable for a music magazine as the brief states and at the same time stuck to my propsal. On Tuesday 14th Decemeber me and my friends heading into the college photography studio to take 100 music related photographs. To add variety I took some photos in the sound recording studio, I placed my friends in different positions in order to make them look more professional. The first image you see on my blog post is quite simplistic. To edit this photo I increased the temperature and tint in the RAW file to give this a warmer feel. I also increased the vibrance to +100 and the saturation to +20 in Photoshop. I wanted to make the colours pop, in order to make the image stand out more to readers of the magazine. My friend Amber G's hair really stands out now and the background as its gone from white to purple. I used the blur tool to blur out the studio light so all the focus is drawn to Amber in the photo. I took this photo while she was whipping her hair back and forth to give the impression that she is rocking out to her music. I could improve this photo by slowing down the aperture so it all blurs together. I could improve this edit by creating a smoke effect in the background. In this photo I increased the temperature to 15000 in the RAW image file to make the photo feel warmer and brighter. It makes my friend Amber W's hair look more vibrant, it helps that the studio light is situated behind her. I turned up the brightness to 53 and I turned up the contrast to 42. I used the spot healing brush and smart blur tool to get rid of spots and blemishes giving Amber W that smooth flawless skin. I cropped the image to get rid of the excess background, which changed it from a landscape to a portrait. I could of improved taking this photo by having better lighting conditions since the photo looks slightly dark. Instead of having the studio light behind her I should of had it to the side or turned up the ISO. I already used the flash while taking the photo to create extra light but it appears that in this circumstance it still wasn't bright enough. I could improve this edit by taking my time to make the skin tone a little more even and perhaps add an interesting background to it. During the photo editing process I increased the temperature in the RAW image file to 26000 to give it a warm feel and to empathize the lighting so it looks of better quality. I added a layer to add a background in to make it look like Amber G is singing on stage and therefore has a crowd. I decided to turn the image black and white as both the images lighting didn't match up so I had to improvise; it also adds a more dramatic atmosphere. I could improve this photo by shooting it from a more convincing angle. I could improve the edit by making Amber less rough when around the edges when I used the quick selection tool. In the RAW image file I set the following settings: temperature 5300, tint -1, exposure +0.95, contrast +12, highlights +8, shadows +5, whites +10, blacks +10, clarity -18, vibrance +10 and saturation +4. In Photoshop I used the spot healing brush on her forehead which got rid of a small spot and made her skin more even tone since the top of her forehead was shiny. I also used the spot-healing tool on the computer screen to make it look more presentable to get rid of the dirt and reflection and on her bra line. I wanted to black out the windows to give this photo a more of a professional studio effect. I did this by using the quick selection tool to highlight the windows and once I removed those sections I filled it in with black. I made this photo black and white to dramatize it, I adjusted the black and setting colour settings to the highest so it was bright because I wanted a faded news-paper print effect. I wanted to spice up the image a bit so I decided to add selective colour to Thaheema's jacket. This made it more interesting and therefore visually appealing. In order to do this I carefully coloured in her jacket with the brush tool and then used an overlay to more the colour that I used more transparent so the original texture is visible. This skill required some careful precision to make sure I didn't go over the lines. I used this more slightly complicated method compared to using the quick selection tool on the jacket because it was too awkward to get in-between every fine detail such as the wires in the way. To improve this photo I could of used better lighting. To improve this edit I could reduced the white noise and grainy effect by adjusting the colours differently. In Photoshop I used the spot healing brush in order to get rid of a couple of minor blemishes to make sure Amber G is looking immaculate. I used the quick selection tool to cut out her from the white background and I pasted her onto another layer, which was the stage background. I attempted adding smoke in the background however I found it ruined the simplicity of the photo and therefore removed that from the finished edit. I want to give a rock star effect so that it looks realistic. I made sure that the pose that I asked her to do was relevant as well. To improve this photo I could increase the ISO to add more light and thus would bring out more detail. To improve this edit I could of took my time on it to get rid of Amber's red cheeks. I could do this by using the clone tool on her skin that isn't red and therefore the models skin would be more even tone.
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