Experimentation

In photography, shutter speed or exposure time is the length of time when the film or digital sensor inside the camera is exposed to light, also when a camera's shutter is open when taking a photograph. The amount of light that reaches the film or image sensor is proportional to the exposure time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_speed

Here is a mood board:

Here are my experimentations.  I learnt the slower the shutter speed, the higher the exposure, so I had to do a lot of adjusting to the ISO and apeture. This is my first time experimenting with shutter speed, so therefore my images aren't amazing because I was constantly learning how much I should adjust my ISO and apeture to.

I like the photos of Imani shaking her head because it appears she has multiple faces. To create this image I slowed the shutter speed and because the image was taken inside in a dark area, I adjusted my ISO and apeture a little higher then the photos I took outside where they were very low.  I believe next time that I can adjust the white balance because the images have an orange tone to them. My mistake of taking photos of tom rubbing his faca and moving his glasses is that I didn't focus of the backgrounf. If I made him sit the other side of the table then the background wouldn't be so light and distract the image.

Here are some examples of the images I manipulated:

I feel that the images look a lot better in black and white. I used adobe lightroom and applied a black and white preset to my images. I then adjusted the clarity, exposure, contrast, highlights and shadows of the image until I was satisfied with how the image looked. The last image is an experimentation because I wanted to see what the image would look like if the white balance was corrected. I used the white balance correcter tool to balance out the background. I then adjusted the contrast, exposure, highlights, shadows, clarity and saturation of the image until I was happy with the results. Personally I prefer the black and white images because I find that it is easier to focus on what's going on in the images, the colours distort and distract the image too much. However, I am glad that I had adjusted the final image and fixed the white balance issue.

In this blog post I’m going to be showing the use of the solid colour effect to help do Conceal and Reveal on Photoshop.

First we need to choose a photo. I’ll use this one as an example.

First on Photoshop we need to duplicate the layer.

After doing that we need to change the new duplicated layer to a solid colour. Lets use blue.

Then using the paintbrush tool and the circle shape, In random places start to remove the top layer. If you want, lower the opacity so that you can see the photo below. Remember to have the colour of the paintbrush on BLACK!!

After you’re done, remember to flatten the image and Save it.

These next few are ones which I have already completed previously.

Mood Board

Keld Helmer-Peterson

Keld Helmer-Petersen was a Danish photographer who achieved widespread international recognition in the 1940s and 1950s for his abstract photographs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keld_Helmer-Petersen

Peterson typically uses natural daylight in his photographs. However the vast contrast on the subects and the backgrounds in his images gives off the impression that he uses the threshold tool in photoshop, even though that wasnt physically possible because the first personal computer was invented in 1975. Petersons work has a strong tone, with both the light and dark contrasting eachother. Peterson was thought to have an obsession with line as it is often a major feature in his work. Also many patterns appear in his work, especially phoyographs involving buildings and structures.
Here is an example of Peterson's work:

My Interperatation:

These are screenshots of some of the photos I took in my shoot. I went to both indoor and outdoor locations and took photos of images I thought looked interesting and aesthetically pleasing.

Here are the images I selected for manipulation and my final image:

I then manipulated these images using photoshop. I cropped them into squares then applied the threshold tool and adjusted them until I got the result I wanted. I also rotates some of the images to distort the feeling of the final piece. I feel these images are both a reflection of Peterson's work, however there is an obvious indication that I have also inputted my own creativity into these images. Here is my final image: