Day 1-
Today I finished editing my image titled ‘Vulnerable’ which was one of the spur of the moment shots from the shoot with Ailsa. I often find that a lot of good ideas come when I least expect them- I should remember to not get too hung up on necessarily meticulously planning everything in advance and leave some room to be freely creative.
One thing I had to tackle while editing today was the fact that initially your eye was lead to the top of the frame to the dress as it was the brightest point; I wanted the viewer to instead be drawn to the flowers at the bottom. I tried various ways of drawing attention to the flowers, initially I created a glow behind the flowers but that ended up just washing the flowers out. What ended up working was increasing the saturation in the flowers as your eye is not only drawn to the brightest and biggest element in the image but also the most saturated. I learnt this concept in Lindsay Adler’s posing video, it will be especially handy when I come to do more busy compositions.
When I initially exported the image to upload online I did my standard thing of raising the black levels to give the image a more painterly feel but after looking at similar images with deeper blacks I decided I might have been taking too much black out. I uploaded a few different versions and I eventually settled on a version where the blacks were still raised but to a lesser degree than before. The image with pure black was just a bit too modern-looking for my liking.
Easter Weekend-
Shot 'Scandal of Grace' playing off the same theme as my gold fairy tears/blood
You could look at the Easter story as being similar to my story of the fairies, they are innocent but yet abused- just as Jesus was.
Today I finished editing my image titled ‘Vulnerable’ which was one of the spur of the moment shots from the shoot with Ailsa. I often find that a lot of good ideas come when I least expect them- I should remember to not get too hung up on necessarily meticulously planning everything in advance and leave some room to be freely creative.
One thing I had to tackle while editing today was the fact that initially your eye was lead to the top of the frame to the dress as it was the brightest point; I wanted the viewer to instead be drawn to the flowers at the bottom. I tried various ways of drawing attention to the flowers, initially I created a glow behind the flowers but that ended up just washing the flowers out. What ended up working was increasing the saturation in the flowers as your eye is not only drawn to the brightest and biggest element in the image but also the most saturated. I learnt this concept in Lindsay Adler’s posing video, it will be especially handy when I come to do more busy compositions.
When I initially exported the image to upload online I did my standard thing of raising the black levels to give the image a more painterly feel but after looking at similar images with deeper blacks I decided I might have been taking too much black out. I uploaded a few different versions and I eventually settled on a version where the blacks were still raised but to a lesser degree than before. The image with pure black was just a bit too modern-looking for my liking.
Shot 'Scandal of Grace' playing off the same theme as my gold fairy tears/blood
You could look at the Easter story as being similar to my story of the fairies, they are innocent but yet abused- just as Jesus was.
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