Take an image- a portrait is ideal. Now make three versions, each with a different degree of sharpening. Make sure the weakest of the three is quite close in on-screen appearance to the unsharpened original, and the strongest is noticeably aggressive. … Continue reading
Throughout my course I have been trying to cover the world’s most influential photographers, and George Brassai is definitely one that keeps appearing during my study and research. He was a Hungarian photographer, who rose to fame in France; and specifically … Continue reading
Produce a photographic image to illustrate an imaginary book or magazine cover. Decide on a topic to be illustrated. You could, if it makes this decision easier, take an existing book that you know and devise an alternative photographic cover … Continue reading
The final exercise in this part of the course is deliberate out-and-out alteration of the content of the image, and requires Photoshop for its Clone Stamp tool and its cut and paste abilities. Take a photograph which contains one distinct … Continue reading
For this exercise, you’ll add one element from a different image. This exercise will be in two stages. The aim is to take a conventional landscape view and render the sky so that it appears ideally exposed, with every detail … Continue reading
This exercise explores the next level of intervention and allows you to make changes that many would say go beyond reality. Photograph a close-up, head and shoulders portrait, in available or natural lighting. The face should be in shade, not … Continue reading
Start by photographing a portrait in a setting, and then use a manual selection method to select just the area of the person. The two most useful methods would be either a kind of lasso tool, with which you can … Continue reading
I was very happy with my tutor’s feedback for assignment three. In fact- I was over the moon! I worked so hard on this photoshoot, and had really aimed to get a great location and subject for black and white shots, and … Continue reading
David LaChapelle is an american photographer well known for his manipulated images. This is something that I have been looking into quite a bit since beginning part 4- Reality and Intervention. I came across this talented photographer who’s renowned for his pop photography images. LaChapelle’s photography career began when he started showing … Continue reading
Prior to assignment four- real or fake, I decided to do a little research into the argument of Photographic manipulation to gain a little more perspective on the subject. I discovered that manipulation and enhancement are two different things. Chris … Continue reading
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