For this project I wanted to experiment with the editing for some of my images, inspired by the style of Vasantha Yogananthan, who has his film pictures hand painted. They use unrealistically pastel colours to create Pictorialist inspired images.

For these images I tried to take inspiration from the work of Vasantha Yogananthan and colour these using photoshop, making the original image a black and white multiply layer and then placing my chosen colours underneath. For the images above, I did not spend very long on them and struggled to get clean lines and a nice colour scheme.

Because of how messy they looked, placed a blur filter over them to try to make the colours mix together a bit nicer but I still did not quite like the result.

For my next attempt I used a simpler image and referenced the colours of the original to try to make it more accurate. I like this a lot more as it looks a lot neater.

For my next experiment, I took an image from my parents’ wedding and placed a gradient over my mum, I really like the contrast between the colour and monochrome.

This decision was inspired by some of the images in Yogananthan’s last photobook called Amma, where figures are painted over with bright colours.