Category: Portraits

The process of taking this picture took a while. First, I had to change the Shutter Speed setting to let less light into the picture. The hardest part of this process was editing the picture. Using Photoshop, first, I had to desaturated the image. Then, I had to find the perfect curves to compliant the picture. Third, I had to implant my logo on to the picture so nobody could use my picture without credit. The black and white worked better than color. The color just didn’t work so I scraped it and used black and white. I really like my pictures and I hope you like them too.

 

 

 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/sgr6tPZwBjOeeRfX2

I don’t have a picture of myself because I didn’t make the cut?!?!?

First to take the photos I changed the manual setting on the camera to make the back ground invisible. I also clipped external lights to objects around the background to make sure that that the background was fully white and infinite. I used adobe Photoshop to edit these white background photos. I changed the curves and changed the hue and saturation. As you can see, the background is infinite and you cant see it. Some challenges of this project were to make sure there were no shadows on the white background.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZLhv33oL1xEOP83W2

this a  picture that adam gotkin took.  this a photo I took of Xavier with a white background.

The White background is basically the Black background project, but with a white background. For this project the iso and shutter speed had to be adjusted more frequently depending on each model. Which was a kind of difficult. What was easy though after the adjustments there wasn’t much to do, but take photos.

No one did a photo of me I don’t think,

https://photos.app.goo.gl/YH80XY1GiIK40Edt1

 

The process to take the white background photos was a little harder than the black backgrounds. It was hard to find the right angles because of shadows. You couldn’t be too close up because of shadows. To edit my photos I used the curves tool in Photoshop and adjusted the brightness and saturation and black and white tool. 

 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Ng0PsNlJX1UpSpnB2

 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/PRFh1b9xp0LnwRid2

In class this week we have been working on a project. In this project we were told to take pictures on white backgrounds. While taking the pictures we had to shine 2-3 lights on the background to make it an actual white background instead of white or yellow.  We also had to adjust the ISO, F-stop, and shutter speed in order to take this kind of picture. After taking the pictures we were told to download them onto our computers from google drive. We then were told to use the editing software Adobe Photoshop. On Adobe Photoshop we had to make the photo black and white so we lowered the saturation down to -100. After that we adjusted the picture to our liking using curves which is a way to change the lighting on Adobe Photoshop. The final step was to add our logo so that no one steals our pictures. We then uploaded it to google photos. During the process of taking photos I figured out that you need to have a ton of light on the background to make sure it’s white and not yellow or gray.

When taking the photos I wanted the “models” to be themselves where modeling. Whatever pose they wanted. What was difficult was trying to make the background black, so we had to mess around with the settings a lot. By we I meant Mr. Fitz. What worked was the black background we used which made it easy to have a black background except for Kenneth’s Picture

https://photos.app.goo.gl/YH80XY1GiIK40Edt1

In this project we attempted to fill a photo with light and create an infinite background. I edited the shutter speed so that it would capture just enough light to capture my subject. I isolated the subject of the photo and then edited the curves to create am infinite background.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/RWHrGaVCXSjOVXdI3

For this project I took the pictures on a manual camera. I put the ISO at around 800 to make it look good. I also put the F-Stop at 4.0 and shutter speed at around 1/60. You want the shutter speed at around this because it lets in a lot of light so the background looks infinite. To edit I messed with the curves to make the colors the way I wanted. I also changed the brightness and contrast to make a big difference between Antony and the background. It didn’t work however when you didn’t have people lighting up the background.

The link to the rest of my photos are here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/XpPpMuXHNne04Jzp2

My favorite photo taken of me was by Antony and was this:

Our project was to take pictures of three or more students in our class with an infinite background. You had to play around with the camera settings- F-Stop, ISO, and Shutter Speed to make the background completely white and have no shadows. It was hard to make the background white and took multiple tries to make it an infinite background with no shadows. Then we had to edit the photos we took on Photoshop. You could make them black and white, which is what I did to make the photo look cool or just leave the color how it was and you had to edit the curves.  I learned lots on how to balance the 3 settings to make the photo have an infinite background. Below is my favorite photo I edited and the link to all my photos.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/TRTgaps1T8kS0Txr1