Editing process of my photos2

Photos.

Photo shoot 1This is the first photo shoot I did, it is set in my back garden with the fence as a background. The model is sixteen years old and I thought this was the correct age as she is the same age as my target audience, I also wanted her to be young so it would link in with my genre charts, as most people who listen to this kind of music are this age. I decided to get the model to wear a Christmas jumper so it would fit in with the Christmas edition of my magazine. From all of the photos I took none of them match the plan I did for them. This is partly because I didn’t have the props needed at the time or the weather wasn’t brilliant. So most of the photos I took were improvised on the day, however this wasn’t a problem as I wanted the model to bring across a positive emotion to the image, and she did.

Photo shoot 1I decided to use this image as I like the direct eye contact the model is giving to the audience. Also the scarf links in with the theme of Christmas. However, when looking back at the shoot I thought the background and jumper clashed together because there were two different shades of green and so I decided I will somehow change this in Photoshop.

Photo shoot 2The second photo shoot was took in my house against a white wall. Again like the first shoot I chose someone young as the model. I decided to keep my photo plan and include a cake. Even though when you first see the image you wouldn’t associate this with music, but when the photos in the magazine the anchorage and the rest of the layout will link it altogether. I decided to have a cake with the colour red as that’s a colour you associate with Christmas. Also the apron the model’s wearing says ‘celebrity chef’ which shows that the model is supposedly an artist.

Photo shoot 2I decided to use this photo as I like the way she is posing and smiling as she's showing a positive emotion. Also I like the image as there’s not much I could do to improve it, apart from getting rid of the shadow.

Photo shoot 3My third photo shoot was also in my garden. This time my model was male so the magazine could target both genders of my target audience. There is nothing Christmassy happening in this shoot as I didn’t want the Christmas edition idea take way too much attention from my genre of charts, And I think this image particularly gets across my genre. One of the planned photo shoots of this I didn’t do but I was still happy with the images I took.

Photo shoot 3I decided to use these two images as I like the pose and eye contact of the model. I probably won’t do much to improve these images as I like them the way they are, The only thing I will probably do is maybe crop the background a bit and change the brightness and contrast.

Photo shoot 4This is the last photo shoot I did. I took a lot more photos for this shoot as these images will be used for my double page spread. I included some Christmas props which will go with my article on the DPS. Only one of my images matches one of my photo plan and all the other photos were improvised on the day, However his doesn’t bother me as I’m happy with how all of them turned out.

Photo shoot 4I’ve decided I will use these three images. One will be used on the front cover and the others on the double page spread. I chose these because they are all different because of the different poses, However I do not like the background and so will probably cut out the background.

The editing process and how it’s doneTo edit all my images I used the program photo shop.

BEFORE AFTER

BEFORE AFTER

1.The first thing I did was improve the saturation of the image. I did this by clicking on this icon found at the bottom the ‘layer’ box on photo shop.

2. Then this brings up a list of options to go onto. So I clicked on the one that says ‘hue/saturation’.

3. Then this brings up a box which gives you the chance to change the saturation, lightness or hue of your image. So for my image I increased the saturation to bring out more colour.

4. I then decided to increase the brightness and contrast by again clicking on the same icon as before except choosing the option ‘brightness/contrast’.

It then brings up a different box where you can increase or decrease the brightness and contrast of the image. I increased the brightness to make my image more bright and increased the contrast to make the colours of parts of my photo brighter.

5. I decided I didn’t like the background as it clashed with the colour of some of my features on my magazine and so I changed it. I did this by clicking on the hue and saturation again. I decreased the hue and saturation until I liked the colour of the background.

I then clicked on the paint tool as I didn’t want the whole of the image to be that colour. So I used this tool

to erase the changes on the model.

I did this to both of the images so it showed it was from the same photo shoot.

BEFORE AFTER

1. I made many changes on this photo shoot. The first thing I did was blur the background as the background again clashed with the layout of my magazine. So I did this by clicking on this tool here. This then let you draw over where you wanted the picture to blur.2. The next thing I did was increase the brightness and contrast and the hue and saturation.3. I then changed the colour of the jumper, which I did by using the same method as the photo shoot before where I changed the hue and saturation and erased the bits I didn’t want changing. I also changed the background colour as well, again using the same method.

BEFORE AFTER

1. For this image I changed the brightness and contrast of this image. I then had to get rid of the shadows. I did this by using the brush tool.2. I then used this tool which let me click on the image to get that specific colour, I then used the brush tool by colouring in the shadows with that colour. This colour was the same colour as the background which meant you couldn’t see where the shadows were erased.

Before After

BEFORE AFTER

BEFORE AFTER

BEFORE AFTER

3. I then needed to crop out the rest of the background using the pen tool 4. So then I had to click around the model which create a chain.5. You keep doing this until you meet back to the start.

1. For these images I cut out the background. The firs thing I did was crop the excess background. Using the crop tool.

2. This then let me drag a box around the part of the image I wanted to keep.

6. Once you’ve finished you right click in the part of the image selected and choose the option ‘make selection’.

7. This then gets rid of the background .

8. I then finished editing the image by changing the brightness and hue and saturation.

I then saved all my edited images as a JPEG file.