Wednesday, February 23, 2011

playing with Photoshop

Photoshop Portrait


success?!


23. February. 2011:

80% success

·         Enough light- day light
·         Direction- light behind photographer
·         Contrast- less contrast



20%

·         Not enough light
- grainy
-underexposed
-blur
-back lit



Remedy

·         ISO à 100 à 1600
·         Change position of camera/ subject
·         Camera on tripod
·         Camera- average grey
·         Add light

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Notes

16. February. 2011:

Glam technique
          -younger looking faces

è black and white option

·         2 Layers: soft, sharp
·         Soft: surface blur
·         Sharp: unsharp mask
·         Erase the soft for the sharp


è color option

·         Protocols- Color correction
·         2 Layers

Notes

10. February. 2011:

White scene correction

Camera:          AUTO ð compensate

            +2…+1…                    0                      …-1…-2
            Overexposed                                       underexposed

Snow


Photograph assignment
          -lens distortion

·         building:
Wide angle
Zoom (Telephoto)
Front of school
Select best setting- focal length- to get the most of the building- filter distortion- lens

·         with wide angle setting – portrait à lens correction filter

Photoshop

portrait

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Notes

8. February. 2011:

Photograph assignment

·         Portrait:
3locations
Zoom (Telephoto)
Wide angle
·         Landscape:
Snow scene- predominance snow
Building in scene

Photograph
-Indoor

Problem: Light à Enough light?
Focus: Sharp
Blur:    camera movement
            Subject movement (body: hands/ leg)
Solution: shutter speed


-Shutter speed:

Wide angle: 1/60sec
Telephoto: 1/125- 1/250sec


            -ISO (speed film)

Auto à ISO      100                  bright
                        200
                        400
                        800
                        1600
            Fast:     3200                low light

Friday, February 4, 2011

Notes

4. February. 2011:

Cameras
          -What a camera today is!

A camera is not a human being!
A human sees a subject -> subjective, a camera just sees light ->objective!

The digital camera is between the human being and the analogue camera, it is an interface. Digital cameras are not only looking at the light but also at the subject because of its little computers in the camera. They try to think like a human being, look for faces, movement …


-Camera Options:

  • Pixel Size Image:
How many Pixels in each image?
Average today: 8-32 Megapixels
The more Megapixels the more information we have, finer details resolution
  • JPEG- Compression format:
30 000 choices what the computer does!
  • RAW- Uncompressed –Unaltered


Photoshop
-Save to blog from Photoshop

  1. Flatten Layers
  2. Reduce Size to 72dpi
  3. Save as JPEG/ RGB

after

before

after

before


Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Notes

2. February. 2011:

Protocols
–Global changes

  1. Levels-Value-exposure
  2. Color Balance
  3. Contrast/ Brightness
  4. Cropping
  5. Comparison- neutral background
  6. Adjust
  7. Sharpen
-Local changes

  1. Dodge & Burn
  2. Quick Mask –Blur
  3. Mode Change