This is my second part of making portraits with an infinite background. It is just like making the portraits with the white background, except you’re using a black background. To capture the dark essence, we had to take a picture with as little light as possible and edit the photos using Photoshop. We also repeated the steps to take a good picture, using the manual setting and bring in a small, perfect amount of lighting using ISO and shutter speed. To edit the photos in Photoshop, instead of editing like we did with the white backgrounds, we had to make the background darker and the figure lighter. We also cropped out some shadows and things outside of the black screen. Our faces are a little too orange and kind of creepy, but the pictures do capture that dark essence and make the photos look infinite. Can’t wait to see what we’ll do next.                                                                                                                                         -Marie Valouiski

Link to photos here.

This assignment was pretty unique from the other projects. In this one, we had to take a picture of a person with a white background then edit the photo via photo shop. This makes the background look infinite or like there’s nothing there. To take a picture, we had to use the manual setting and take in the perfect amount of lighting and quality using ISO and shutter speed. Then we took the photo to photo shop, made the background lighter, the person a little darker, crop out the leftover shadows, and vola. The pictures turned out perfect and it worked really well. It took a while to edit all our photos however, and we needed to fix many mistakes along the way, but it’s all good now.