Still Life Editing

Selecting Pictures Process

I used P (pick) and X (reject) to choose which pictures I wanted to keep and use later on for my edits.
Then I compared the images that looked similar and picked the one I liked the most by starring it.
After starring my pictures, I colour coded them and decided which ones I wanted to edit. (yellow = maybe, green = yes, red = no)

Editing An Image

the original image and how I edited it

I decide to edit this photograph because I though the lighting was quite good and I liked the way I placed the item. This is because the rope is clearly visible and you can see all the small details on it which I thing looks interesting. I also liked the colours in the image because they compliment each other. The metal thing with the paint on reminded me of a paint palette.

I started by cropping the image because I wanted the object to be more visible to the viewer. I increased the temperature by a little bit because I wanted to give it a warmer tone and make it softer (the studio lights were a bit too harsh in my opinion). Increasing the whites and shadows made the whole image brighter and I liked that because the details became more visible.

Final Edits

environmental portraits

This version of the portrait is my favourite. This is because the black and white allows the picture to look timeless. This picture could’ve been taken recently or 50 years ago. I find this aspect of the photo the most interesting as I have made a picture taken in the 21st century look as if it is photographed in the 1900s. The black and white of this image reflects on how long this jewellery shop has been running for. It relates to the theme of heritage because it is a family jewellers which was established in 1988 by the hutching’s family. They stated at the time that they weren’t expecting so many people to come into the shop and since then, to this day, TJ Hutchings has been a go to jewellers to get all things jewellery fixed and is well known by islanders.

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