24th march 2014
Display Idea – Series
After editing the set of images in the previous post and thinking ahead about the nearing degree show I am beginning to wonder about how I am going to display my pieces. I am still contemplating the acetate idea however I am beginning to wonder whether to display them as a series.
Have the models in the same position but on different backgrounds in a row of a set of say 6 images. This is to emphasise that the images have been edited as I have put them in such neutral backgrounds some people may just assume they are unedited images. Having the same images on a range of backgrounds will make people look and wonder how all the images have been edited so precisely. Hopefully adding to the uncanny effect and linking back to some of the ideas I touched on in my dissertation.
15th March 2014
Lizzie and fee background
Here are a few images I have been working on for now I have ignored the slight lack of perspective and tried to make them look as natural as possible in their chosen backgrounds. I have done this by adjusting the hue and saturation as well as adding shadows accordingly following the lines of shadows already cast in the picture.
10th March 2014
Unusable images
The images in this post are unusable for the intentions I have, they don’t look right to my eyes due to technical errors in my work which I am working towards being able to remove completely in future images. Perspective has been my worst enemy in the creation of the majority of my failed pieces although in this instance that has not been the case. I now understand the full importance of pre-planning every aspect of the production process I should involve with this medium of art.
One of the models fingers is slightly covered by the green screen meaning that when the green screen is edited out the model is left fingerless and pasting that image onto a new background looks odd and unrealistic due to the models body being incomplete.
4th march 2014
Vanishing points and perspective
After finally figuring out how to remove the greenscreen I was then able to easily play around with a few images trying to get them to fit into different scenes. However, with some of the models positions it was difficult to get them to fit in the background this is because of the vanishing point of each picture was different.
I then watched a tutorial on vanishing points and attempted to fix my images using the techniques shown in the video.
As you can see from the images, I haven’t managed to fully master this yet as the models still look stretched and distorted across the scene. This can be solved with proper pre-planning and shooting the models to fit the intended environments.
1st march 2014
Lizzie and Fee edits using Colour range
After further research into Photoshop and greenscreening I have discovered an efficient and effective way of removing all the green from the image without affecting the image I want to keep within the composition.
This is done using a tool in the Select toolbar called ‘Colour Range’ this tool allows me to select a colour I want to remove of and allows me to select the greenscreen while leaving the models in the working layer of Photoshop.
In my images there is obviously more than one tone of green but with this tool you are able to hold down the shift key to select each tone of the colours I wanted to remove meaning I could remove the darker green shades in the shadow’s as well as the bright greens using one simple tool.
As you can see from the images, this tool can take a few refinements to accomplish the desired effect. While selecting the colours I was left with a silhouette of the image, called a matte, which allows me to easily see which sections of the image will be kept and removed. In the first attempt I didn’t remove the green shadow underneath the model after a second attempt I was aware of that problem and selected that area and removed it.
