Contact Sheets

Here is the contact sheet for my fourth photoshoot, I decided to include my friends into this project to shop some development through generations in my photobook. In the start of the book will be images of my parents with their friends and as I was to create something like a photographic timeline I thought that by adding my own friends I would be more pull together. This photoshoot was conducted down at St Brelades as it is a place that my group of friends go a lot, this shoot was done at night so the flash was used in the photos but I like how they turned out and feel that they will be interesting to edit. I want to do a similar editing style to the way I have edit my parents and their friends to help link them together.

Sub Selection

I wanted to pick the best images out of my collection that I thought would go together in my photobook and help to make a structured narrative. I used the flag tool to pick which ones I wanted to edit and maybe included in my selection of images, I followed this by using the green colour tool to pick out the photographs that I was going to use and edit in photoshop.

Editing

Below are some of my editing which I conducted in Lightroom, as my photographs were take outside and at night I did not have any lighting tools or natural light to work with so I had to use the flash on the camera. By using the flash it caused some of my images to become over exposed leading to some of the people looking washed out, to combat this I decreased the exposure and increased the contrast so that the images appear to be darker.

Photoshop Experimentation

For these photographs I wanted them to be edited with either the gold under layer or with coloured line work, I have done some experimentation with some of my images which are shown below. For my one portrait image I used the gold underlayer and put the original photo over it, I followed this by using the object selection tool to outline the induvial in the image. I didn’t want to completely remover from the photograph so I slightly moved her to the left so that the gold could be seen underneath her. I think this helps connect the images throughout my photobook.

Below are some more of my experimentations in photoshop, the two middle images I plan to have together in my photobook as I think that its an interesting and unique way to display a group photo. I have tried to make them link my using the gold background in both but in different styles. The second photo I have completely removed our upper bodies while in the third I have old used the polygonal lasso tool to create the triangles that have been shown in my earlier photoshoots with editing.

Evaluation

This photoshoot was my favorite to do as I felt that it was easy to portray the care free narrative of teenage life, I wanted to make a connection to the start/middle of my photobook where it show my parents and their friends as these photos were placed at the end showing the element of friendship and how important these relationships are. I like how this images turned out as there was a contrast between the foreground and the background of each image, as I used flash the subjects were highlighted which made them stand out against the darker background. I found these images interesting to edit as I didn’t want to do too much and I wanted them to still link with each making the books narrative flow consistently.