Having experimented with making my photos look like film photos I wanted to try a different approach.
Here is the original photo I took. It is quite well lit for the conditions I was using so I wanted to keep this aspect in the edited version.
I decided to do some of what I had done before in order to enhance the colours in the image. I did some tweaking of the levels, contrast and brightness. The result of this were much deeper and vivid colour tones. I again applied a vignette to darken the area surronding the subject. This has worked quite successfully I think, althouh it has darkened her face a little.
Monday 7 December 2009
Outdoor Portraits
I decided to take some outdoor photos before the winter weather took over. Luckily we got a break in the clouds and got some really bright winter sun. I experimented with the aperture, ISO and white balance to try and get some good shots in the changing conditions. I decided to use a cloudy white balance, an ISO of 400/800 and a F/5.6 aperture. I used this aperture to get a small depth of field focused around the subject. The ISO and white balance were selected to get a quick shutter speed and brighter colours.
This is one of my original photos from the shoot. As you can see it has a very monotonous background, and the subject is very windswept. I decided that for this shot I should use photoshop to alter it to make it seem less amateurish.
In this attempt I tried to make it look like a black and white photograph. I used photoshop to darken the shot and increase the contrast, I applied a vignette around the edges, added a grain texture and applied a black and white filter. I think this makes the image seem much older. The grain texture especially helps it look more like a film photo and the vignette helps to reduced the brightness of the background and helps to naturally increase the viewer's focus on the face. In a way this photo in reminiscent of Yousuf Karsh's work, of close portraits taken of the shoulders up.
This is one of my original photos from the shoot. As you can see it has a very monotonous background, and the subject is very windswept. I decided that for this shot I should use photoshop to alter it to make it seem less amateurish.
In this attempt I tried to make it look like a black and white photograph. I used photoshop to darken the shot and increase the contrast, I applied a vignette around the edges, added a grain texture and applied a black and white filter. I think this makes the image seem much older. The grain texture especially helps it look more like a film photo and the vignette helps to reduced the brightness of the background and helps to naturally increase the viewer's focus on the face. In a way this photo in reminiscent of Yousuf Karsh's work, of close portraits taken of the shoulders up.
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