Shutter Speed Pictures

To take these pictures, I had to change the shutter speed of the camera depending on what kind of picture I was taking. The shutter speed controls the length of time that light passing through the lens reaches the film

To improve the quality of an image you can change the shutter speed. To capture the images of throwing the leaves the shutter speed was set to 1/250  sec.

To make the last image the room had to be dark, we then used torches to draw shapes and patterns repeatedly whilst the camera captured the whole of the image. It was very hard to get these images in focus, so I think it would help if I experimented more with ISO settings and with autofocus. I think the first three images turned out quite well since they are not blurred. However I think it may be beneficial for me to experiment using continuous shoot mode to get the best possible picture of things such as the leaves falling.

Composition Pictures

Composition pictures

Shot Distance

In this picture, you can see that it was taken from a distanace since it shows the body as opposed to only showing the head. Although the feet are not shown, the picture is taken showing the body from above the knee, since I was stood far back when taking it.

                                             Framed

This picture shows the use of framing, as you can see, the face is framed in between two banister poles that I had taken from the other side of the banister. The picture also shows a very slight use of tilt as the stairs where I took this where higher up than where I was standing on the flat floor of the other side,

                                            Eye Line

In this picture, you can see that Georgia is looking directly into the camera, she is at the same height as the camera and is therefore an eye line picture.

Lines

Primarily, this picture shows use of lines, the banisters lead up to where Georgia is standing, and the lines are very clear. This picture also shows framing between the archway and the stairs, Georgia's whole body is in the picture, however I did not stand far enough away to show the left side of the archway,

Using the Healing Brush

Before

After

When using Photoshop to change the image, I used the healing brush to make the skin clearer, I had to change the brush size to be able to cover all of the spots, such as making the brush smaller around the nose to clear the spots. I used the 'Alt' button to chose the colour of the skin that I wanted to use.  I also used the magnetic lasso tool to change the eye colour, I did this by using colourise and altering the hue/saturation of the eyes. 

Vampire Tutorial

Before

After

In Photoshop, using a range of tools, I was able to create this vampire look, firstly I used a tool that allowed me to desaturate the skin to give it that grey look, I did this by using the sponge tool and setting it to desaturate at around 80%  I kept changing the size of the brush to make sure that I did not go over the eyes or the lips in the picture. I then used the burn tool set to shadows at about 60% to make the lips a brighter shade of red, and I also used it to make the outer eyes blacker. After finishing with the burn tool, I used the magnetic lasso tool to circle the colour of they eyes and then used hue/saturation and colorise to change the colour and the lightness of the eye, I made them a deep red colour. To make vampire teeth, I again used the magnetic lasso tool to circle one tooth, and then I copied it to a new layer, after I'd done this I used the warp tool to change the shape of the tooth using the grid points provided. I then did the same steps with the other tooth. To practice downloading and using brushes, I added blood splatters to the picture. I downloaded the brushes online and then opened them in photo shop, I chose the brushes that I wanted to use, and changed the colour of them to red. I was also able to change the direction of the blood splatters by opening my brush palette window. I changed the size and direction depending on where I was placing them on the image.