Photo's and Photoshop Development DAY 1

Photo's and Photoshop Development DAY 1

Recently, I went out to Richmond park with the lead singer of my made up band - Palms and his love interest (who will also be shown in the video) to take some photos whilst the sun was setting. Both myself and my other group member entered this particular task with an open mind as we were certain that we did not want any of the shots to seem awkward, artificial or staged. We chose to go by a lake as it is romantic as well as it being something appealing and scenic; we also asked the pair in the photos to act natural, which made the shots seem realistic. In the pictures, I wanted it to be as simple as possible yet of high standard and quality. This was done with the intentions of post production. When I and my other group member, came to editing the pictures we gained a rough idea of what we wanted to do next on our second day of shooting/filming as well as being able to manipulate the pictures as much as we would like without much difficulty. I decided that it would be a good idea to take pictures in a naturalistic mise-en-scene as it juxtaposes the modern people who are in the photos. I used a Cannon DSLR to take the photos and used various different setting in order to receive different outcomes and versions of the same photos.

Here are some of the original and un-edited photos taken on our first day of shooting.

 

When returning back to school, we resumed our work and began photo shopping and editing our photos to our required styles. I tried various different styles of photo shopping, but tried my best to keep within the indie genre and be minimalistic and artistic. Here are 3 of the photos which I edited, and I was extremely pleased with the outcome.



I used various different tools whilst using the software Adobe Photoshop CS6 to edit my shots. I mostly used the stamp tool to remove or add different objects in the shot which I believed would help alter and improve the quality of the image. An example of this was the boulders in the lake, and the tree in the background. I placed tints over some of the images and certain aspects of the images in order to make the image pop and to do something different that hadn't really been done before. This was key in order to add an element of interest to the image. I also improved the overall quality of the image by increasing elements of the photo such as the contrast, saturation, brightness and even added curves to the image which gave my shot the acquired look that I wanted it to have.

Next time, I plan to go to a studio to take images which will be of the whole band. I also plan to go to central London to take pictures in urban and rustic areas which will fit the Indie genre and make the band fit its typical stereotype- this is essential. I also plan to take minimalistic and natural pictures to get the same outcome as my first day of shooting as me and my other group member decided that we agreed that it was the key element as to why the final product/outcome of the pictures looked of a high standard.