Day: 1 February 2018

Daily Archives: February 1, 2018

Filters

I have used Adobe Lightroom in order to create my photo book over the past few days, experimenting with images and layouts. I have selected around fifty images from about twelve-hundred images, meaning I have spent a lot of time deciding what features and what doesn’t, making some very painful cuts along the way.

A feature I think works with my images is making specific images double paged spreads as, particularly with the imagery of over-arching buildings, they create this daunting tower effect or can portray the vast, suburban landscape. I have opted to use Standard Portrait for the size of the book as it fits my images the best on the page and Premium Lustre for the page material itself as it gives a tame lacquered look. I have considered my options further by assessing other books with the same qualities to ensure it is the correct decision.

After doing the white body shoot I wanted to do another shoot based on the same theme of invisibility and losing your identity. However, instead of capturing the whole body I wanted to fragment the face. Since I was focusing on a smaller portion of the body I was able to properly cover the face with white paint so that the effect looked better. I wanted to do a shoot just focusing on the face because I believe the face is the most expressive part of the human body.

I edited the images using Photoshop because it enabled me to do the most editing since I planned to experiment more with there edits to make them more interesting and artistic. I really like the bright colour edits because they work well with the hand shoot images. Also the bright colours again symbolize different emotions.