Image Manipulation

     Over the last two days I have learnt a number of new skills that has helped me develop my own existing skills and some new skills I have learnt throughout different processes of work. 

     Firstly to create my images that I was later going to edit into album covers, we were separated into groups and were able to work together as a team to create our images to edit. I captured images of moving light by adjusting my cameras shutter speed and changing it to stay open for 20 seconds, this made it able to capture the light movement effectively. To create the different colours of light I used different coloured plastics such as blue, red, green, orange and pink to cover normal torches that we would make movements with to create the coloured patterns.

To create this image my group and I decided between us who would be the model, who would control the overhead lights and camera and who would be in control of the torches. Once we had decided that we decided how the model would pose. We then chose what colours we would use for the image and what movement we would make around the model. For the image on the left we decided to use pink and green and chose to use circles as our movements to show the models silhouette.

On this image we used the same process as the image above but decided to change how the model was stood and we decided to change the oculars we used. Also we changed the movement of light around the model, this time we decided to move it as one straight line around the edge of the body, with green zigzags across the back.

After creating the images in the dark room we downloaded them onto our macs and edited them on photoshop using effects such as, liner burn, vivid light, pin light, luminosity, multiply, invert and by changing the levels on my images.

This was the first image I edited on photoshop and I am pleased with the final outcome. At first I wasn't happy with how it looked because I had only changed the image to luminosity but hadn't changed the levels, so the background looked grainy and grey but by changing the levels I was able to change my image so the background was all black. I like this effect because the models silhouette stands out against the background.

This is my favourite image because I like the different colours that can be seen throughout the letter. For this image I incorporated an image from earlier work I have created, the image used in this was from the alphabet made from objects found outside. When making this image I had some issues with being able to see the text over two layer of images, I then found out that to be able to see the text over two layers of images, I had to move the text icon over the top of layer 1 and layer 2 on the right hand bottom corner of photoshop so that my text was the top layer of the album cover. 

This was the last edit I created using photoshop. In this image we derided to use two models with one person conducting the movement of the torches. Again I have used images from the alphabet work I had created previously. In this image I like the effect the light has given the silhouettes, also by using the letter V over the top by changing it into greyscale then by using the levels to increase the black in the image. Once i had dragged the V over the top of my background image i then used screen in the layers pallet to get rid of any black in the image.