Since the previous post I have finished editing out the suspended girl from the background and the hair to as good of a quality that I could with the lack of a green screen used on the original image.
I have since then been figuring out how to edit the photos and put them into different backgrounds to do this effectively I have to change the saturation, rescale the image so its relative to the background, distort the image so it is the same perspective as the background and also create and place the shadow of the image to make sure it is as real as possible.
I wanted to put the images into more realistic backgrounds the images in Sam Taylor-Woods, Clare Strand and Joel-peter Witkin photographs are all realistic backgrounds and as I am using either images with a background already or images on a screen the background will have to be edited in later.
With the 1st picture I used the already edited image from blog post 6 and then edited it onto a picture I found on Google images. I have used images off Google for all of my tester photographs, later I would like to take the photos I’m using as the background myself too. To add my image to this background I had to position the background and crop it accordingly. I then had to place my photograph into the image she had to be right at the front of the image as her feet are not in the photo this did however make editing and placing her easier. I decided to place her slightly to the left as not to make her the centre of attention to the picture as this would look too fake as the perspective was wrong. I then had to pull the saturation right down as the woman was in black and white and the background was in colour.
The second and third image I made to look like she was floating in a room much like she is in Sam Taylor-woods ‘self-portrait suspended’ series. With this image I had to change the size of the suspended girl. I also had to take into consideration the lighting is above her so it would cast a shadow which I had to make I did this by duplicating the layer with the girl on. I then lowered the lightness so it was completely black. Finally I added a Gaussian blur so they look more natural to the type of light that was above her. I had to do this 3 times as there is three lights above her I then had to judge where I thought the shadows should be and place them appropriately. One thing I don’t like about this image is the hair again it was not done to the standard I want but that is due to the quality of the original image and the lack of a green screen. Another fault would have to be that the editing isn’t completely done I still need to take out the cushion she is being supported by. To make the third image I then just changed the saturation of the girl to make her black and white with the room still in colour as I felt it looked quite interesting.
The fourth image was the most difficult to edit so far. Again using the image I had used in the previous two photographs. I had to place her into a background of a derelict building. The image itself was black and white so I first had to change the saturation of the girl to black and white to match the background. I then had to shrink the girl down to a suitable size to fit the building. I wanted it to appear like she was levitating parallel to the concrete beams above her to do this I had to distort the layer so she was in the right perspective. I then had to do the same as the above image to get the shadows right.
