Air Brush

Photographic Post Production

Original image.

Auto tone/contrast/colour. These each create very subtle effects to the image.

Brightness and contrast. I manually adjusted these to achieve this image.

Sharpen and unsharp mask. Here I changed to radius to 2.2 pixel and made sure the amount was 100%.

Dodge and burn. I used the dodge tool to lighten dark areas of the image, and I used the burn tool to darken light areas. These tools helped to create shadow, highlights and set mid tones.

I auto the red tones here.

Here I auto toned the greens.

Also I auto toned the blues in this image.

Red, Green and Blue. Full edited image.

Composition Photos

Composition is how you arrange elements in a photograph in order for it to work successfully. When taking a photo you must have a focus point, so that you can work to your best ability to exploit that point and create a strong photograph. When taking my composition photos I had to consider, distance, tilt, rule of thirds, rule of triples, use of line, eye line control and framed compositions. All of these attributes are a guide to create great, professional composition photos.

Shutter Speed

Shutter speed is the unit on measurements which determines how long the shutter on a camera remains open for, so that it can capture the image. This can be controlled to change the images to how exposed or unexposed they are. The slower the shutter speed, the longer the image is exposed for, this  is a great way to capture movement. Then also the faster the shutter speed, the shorter the image is exposed, which is and advantage for freezing action shots. The shutter speed and aperture both control the amount of light that is exposed. In order to achieve a successful photo, when capturing the image I considered the lighting conditions so that the shutter speed would accompany it. If the photo was too dark it was under exposed, therefore needed a slower shutter speed, and if the photo was too light it was over exposed, which means it needed a slower shutter speed. Slow shutter speeds are also used when it's poor weather conditions. When I first started off using the cameras in media I had very little knowledge on their capability, gradually I've been building up my skills, such as learning about shutter speeds. In class we did a session on how to use shutter speed to capture movement, I've included the photos from the lesson below.

To achieve motion blur which is displayed in this image, the shutter speed needs to be set to a 60th of a second. Motion blur is when you deliberately want a blur.

I set the camera to 1/250th of a second to capture this freeze walking image.

The camera was set to 1/500th of a second to capture the motion blur on this running image.

I found it difficult to decided how fast or slow to have the shutter open for, as it was hard to judge the speed that my partner was moving. For some of the photos I used trial and error, I did this until I achieved a comfortable speed where i could experiment with different positions to capture different movement.