Portraits

My next assignment was to take portraits in artificial and natural lighting.

Chelese: Sepia Photo Filter



 The first picture is of Chelese, this was taken with article direct 3/4th lighting. For the editing process, I used the photo filter of sepia tone, to add a sort of tanish overlay of color over the photograph. I did this because I feel it makes the photograph have more of an edge to it, to go along with my subjects attitude in the picture







Jack: Surface Blur

  The next portrait is of Jack, this was taken with natural reflected side lighting. To create a reflected look on the subjects face, I used aluminum foil to reflect the light onto the shadowed part of his face. While editing this photograph, I used the healing tool to get rid of some scars that he has on his face, also I used the surface blur to get rid of blemishes, and imperfections. Surface blur also helps me blur things that I don't want to stick out, for example, I make sure the surface blur wasn't in effect on his eyes, hair, lips and jaw line.



Jack: Lighting Effect



For my final picture, I used Jack as my subject again, and this photograph was taken with back natural lighting. For the editing process, I created a lighting effect, called omni, This makes the source of the light stick out more, and give the rest of the photograph some deep shadows.

In this assignment, I had some struggles in the beginning of the editing process, with the surface blur. At first I couldn't get it to work just the way I wanted it to, but eventually I got it. My strengths were that my pictures turned out well.

White Balance



Fin: Vignette Edit



Buddy: Indes Edit



 

For this assignment, I had to change the white balance on my camera to bring out the "whitest" whites in the photographs. In the photograph with Fin sitting and looking out the window, I created a vignette around the subject to frame and create a border to add emphasis on the focal point. For the second photograph I edited, I changed the white balance to indescent, to bring out Buddy's white coat. Then I used curves to add contrast to the photograph to make the subject "pop".

I feel that the strengths of my photos come from my artistic eye, which gives me creative ideas. Yet from my strength comes my weakness, which is putting my ideas for my photographs into action. Sometimes I have great ideas for photographs, but it is hard to make those ideas look the way I picture them in my mind.