identity – the fact of being who, or what, a person or thing is. 

A persons identity is made up from a lot of different a person or thing is. things; their qualities, beliefs, looks, expressions and personality. It’s who you are, what the world thinks of you, and what you think of yourself.

factors that can influence identity

PLACE & ENVIRONMENT 

Mood can be hugely determined by the environment surrounding us; the walls, furniture, streets and buildings that surround us. Yet often, the architecture surrounding us is often seen as frivolous, unimportant. If we walked into an “ugly” room we would be left with a sense of detachment and boredom; if we walked into a warm, colourful room filled with life, we would be left with a sense of happiness and joy, it would lift our mood, influencing our identity.

 “People have strained their backs carving flowers into their roof beams and their eyesight embroidering animals onto their tablecloths. They have given up weekends to hide unsightly cables behind ledges. They have thought carefully about appropriate kitchen work surfaces. They have imagined living in unattainably expensive houses pictured in magazines and then felt sad, as one does on passing an attractive stranger in a crowded street.”

UPBRINGING & FAMILY 

Children form their sense of self in the environment in which they’re brought up. The family, both the family members, and family dynamic play a massive role in shaping the identity of a child while they grow up into the age of adolescence and start to find themselves and become adults. The way the family interacts with one another, and how functional or dysfunctional the family is will shape a child’s identity, from their self-esteem and self-image, to their cultural and religious beliefs.

belonging – feeling a sense of welcome and acceptance. 

There is a lot of different aspects of ‘identity’

gender identity – gender identity can relate to someones own personal sense of their gender.

cultural identity – the identity or feeling of belonging to a group. related to ethnicity, religion, social class, and generation – any group that has its own distinct culture.

geographical identity – a group or individuals sense of attachment to the country, region or city. Can also be the key characteristics associated with a particular country, region or  city,

source: https://www.wikipedia.org/

social identity – social identity is the portion of an individuals self concept & personality that is influenced by a particular group that they’re in/take part with.

eg.

friendship groups

activity groups/voluntary

workplaces

loss of identity – when we lose our identity we often lose a sense of self; this can follow a change of workplace or education, it may also be caused my a mental illness or form of abuse.

This is the first image that I chose to edit – totally unedited. I chose to edit this photo as this was the eldest lady that attended the senior meal – at 99 years old. She had just won a prize and was full of happiness and personality.

The first thing I did with this photograph was edit it into black and white, I did this as I wanted to make the subject the only focus of the image on while editing a little bit later on.

I then used the ‘history brush tool’ to ‘colour’ her back in, the history tool will reverse the part of the image you select to how it was originally, so in this instance, it brought the subject back to colour while keeping everything else totally black and white.

This is the second photograph I chose to edit, this woman had  just chosen her prize, and as you can see, was extremely happy with it. I chose to add another photo onto this one and merge them together.

First I went to file – place embedded and added a second image, this adds an additional image onto the canvas that you’re already working on as an additional layer. I then used the ‘quick selection’ tool to select the part of the photo that I wanted to add onto the original image that I’d chosen to edit.

I then masked the layer which showed me which parts I’d selected and hid the rest. I pressed show layer on the original image and this added my masked layer on top so that I could see it all put together.

I reduced the opacity of my masked layer to 57%, I did this so that attention went to the primary image beforehand.

I chose to edit this photograph as I liked that because of the depth of field each model was in a different amount of focus and the model standing in front catches your attention straight away.

Once I’d opened this photo up in Photoshop the first thing I did was adjust the brightness to +10 and the contrast to +20, I did this to bring out some of the vibrant colours. Doing this helped to bring out the colours as the brightness affects the highlights, and increasing the contrast made the lighter colours in the photo lighter and the darker colours darker, ultimately making them stand out more.

I then went to image-adjustments-vibrance and increased the vibrance to +35 and the saturation to +2 to add to the pop of colour I was going for in this edit.

As you can see, after making these adjustments the model in the foregrounds hair appeared very warm toned. I went to image-adjustments-colour balance and changed shadows (-20,0,+15), midtones (+10,0,+5), and highlights (+8,5,+12) and this gave the image an overall cooler tone.

To finish off this edit I cropped out the bicycles from the left side of the photograph, to both make the photo less busy and cluttered, and keep the focus on the subjects.

The first thing that I did when beginning to edit this photo was add on the ‘cooling filter (82)’ at a density of 10%, this made the photo cooler toned. I experimented with the density a little bit before deciding on 10% as I did not want the photograph to look as if it had a blue coloured overlay.

To finish this edit I increased the brightness to 5 and the contrast to 15, I did this to just enhance some colours while still enabling the edit to look somewhat natural.