Day: 24 May 2022

My Experiments:

Experiment 1:

My attempts:

1
This is the first edit I did because I like the Idea of having a more natural background with industrial bits showing. I used the ‘lasso tool’ on the images of scaffoldings to get those shapes then I just pasted them on to my original image.

3
Here I did the same thing as in my 2nd try, but instead of hiding the layers I kept them and hid the scaffoldings because I wanted to see if it looked better without them. I like this one because of the black lines which I think make the image less boring. however, there is not much going on an looks plain so I won’t use it.

2
This one is very similar to the previous edit because it’s the same idea. However, this one has black space behind the scaffoldings making it look more like Talmor’s work. I got the dark space by using the ‘lasso tool’ on my original layer, right clicking and selecting ‘layer via cut’. Then I hid the new layers and put the scaffolding ones on top.

4
This one’s is the same as the last one. The only difference is that I added a bit of the scaffolding on the left under one of my other layers.

Experiment 2:

For this edit I used the same technique with the lasso tool and just slightly moved my layers from where the used to be. I like the way it turned out because it looks like a broken mirror which I think is quite interesting.

Experiment 3:

I had the same idea in mind for this edit but instead of using the lasso tool and getting more organic shapes, I used the ‘rectangular marquee tool’ and ‘elliptical marquee tool’ to get the shapes. I like the way it turned out because it looks quite abstract.

More:

After I selected my images, I used Lightroom to edit them slightly by changing some of the settings.

Edit 1:

I selected the sky using the ‘adjustment brush’ (shortcut = K) because I wanted to make the clouds more visible without messing with the whole image. I turned the whites all the way down which helped me achieve this look. Then I just turned the exposure down a little.

For this edit I just turned up the vibrance and saturation to make the colours pop more.

Edit 2:

I started by turning the image black and white to make it look slightly older, and cropped it. I then turned down the highlights and played with the other setting until I got something that I liked. I also messed with the texture and clarity to make the details stand out more in the image.

Edit 3:

I like this edit because I think the colours are nice and vibrant. I also like the angle I took the photo from. I turned the highlights all the way down to make it slightly lighter and make the sky/clouds more visible. I then played with the shadows and whites/blacks to do the same thing. At the end I turned up the vibrance to make the colours stand out more.