Unit 32 Image manipulation

Paul M Smith-

Paul smith is a course directer Coventry university. He had a short army career before becoming a photographs, and his first ever portfolio was based on his time in the army. Paul smith is known for being very creative and having very good Photoshop skills, he edits himself into one photograph several times. In his career he has one many awards including 'serco competition' where he came first.
Smith also did a big shoot with Robbie Williams, Robbie had seen Smiths work and was inspired to do something like that for his album cover.

This photograph is one of my favorite from his portfolio based on his army career. I really think this is a nice personal subject to him so i think its nice that he expressed this through his photography.

I also really like this photograph as i understand that it must of took a lot of work on photoshop to have to edit in so many of yourself. Paul has ten of himself in this photograph.

Here Paul is showing off his photoshop skills, this was originally himself, but he photoshop around that to make he look like david Beckham. This takes great skill on photoshop as he had to change the face shape, hair line, lips ect..

This is the album cover for his shoot with Robbie Willaim's.  Robbie wanted this to go with his album 'sing when your winning'. I really like this photograph as clearly Robbie is pretending to have just won a football match and looks very real.

This is another photograph that Smith has based round his army career. This portfolio however was based on the 'lads nights out'. I really like this photograph because it shows Smiths creativity.








Overall i really like Paul's Smiths photography, i think he has a really cool style which suits him and his personality well.

My Scan-

Here is my sketch plan, the people are meant to be floating. I'm planing on doing this by sitting on a chair and then when rubbing out the background i will rub out the chairs as well.

How to create and image like Paul M Smiths.

To produce a image like this you will have to set up a camera on a tripod, the make sure you have it on self timer or someone to take the picture for you. You need to make sure that all you poses are going to fit into the frame as its very important that you don't move the camera, because then the background wont line up. Once you have the camera set up you can begin taking your photographs but you need to make sure you take at least one photograph of just the background, as this will be the key to building up your image. Once the photos have been taken, you need to download them your computer and open in photoshop bridge. Then you must open the back ground photo and your first self protrait photo. Yu will then need to seperate the tabs and drag one photo on to the other, and then turn the opacity down to about 50% so you can see both images.  You will need to zoom into a part of the photograph to make sure that they match up, ideally you should zoom in to something like plugs, blinds, or patterns, so you can make sure that the are lined up perfectly. Once you have done this you can start rudding out one layer to make to two one, and then every now and again you should turn the opaicty back up to a 100% to make sure its working correctly. After this you just need to keep dragging the other images onto this one and building it up. This is all you need to know on how to create an image like Paul M Smiths.
Here is my Final image, inspired by Paul M smiths.

My own photograph-

  

Evaluation-

Here is my own photograph that was inspired by Paul Smiths work,i tried to make it look as though i was floating in the air, i think i did this quite well but i did find it difficult however. As you can see i changed my clothes for every picture to make it more creative. If i was to do this again i would include more self portraits, so instead of 4 i would have around 8. I really develop some photoshop skills while doing this topic and really enjoyed it.

Communication Through A&D.

As you can clearly see, this models skin has been retouched to hide spots and blemishes. This beauty shot could easily been a make up advertisement, even though the eyes and lips of the model don't look to different in the before and after shot, this can be seen as manipulating the public into buying an item that isn't what it seems.

This can be very harmful on young girls, as many girls look up to models and celebrities as role models. Photoshopping models and celebs face/bodies could be giving young girls an unrealistic body image, which could be harmful for there confidence, self esteem and health. Young girls already worry about their weight and Photoshopping models to look 'perfect' is really harmful to a young girl as people can't help getting spots. They have also tinted the eyebrows more, and the bags under the eyes have disappeared and also the eye appears whiter. Also the natural blush has been erased.

Photoshoping-

The original photo.

 I first changed the curves to make the right side of her face a little less light.

I then went on to dodge, to help clear up any blemishes. My model had pretty clearless skin anyway, so there wasn't much work that needed to be done, but if my model suffered with acne for example, this would be a great tool to make there skin look much clearer and flawless.

Andy Warhol. 

Andy Warhol is famous for his unique photoshop technique, his most famous one being a photograph of marilyn Monroe. 

After researching Warhols work i created my own piece in his style, here is the one that i created using Morgan and photoshop. Theres a lot of work and editing involved, even though it only uses one photograph. First you select your photograph and put an using photoshop you take the detail away from the face. So you are just left with the key features, such as eyes and outline of the face. After this you choose a colour, the most Famous images all include bright colours. Yo I found it easy to learn and a good skill on photoshop.

Vinget.

I created this image by highlighting a square around the key object, and giving it a border of a colour to make it more visible. i chose the colour red as i believe it worked the best and suited the picture as the is a red post box in the background. After this i then soften the background, so nothing else is a sharp accept the rectangle with the border around. This is a very well known popular style and is used often in photographer, mostly in movement and wedding photography.

Ten years younger.

Photoshopping a woman over 50..

Here is my After image, i have used Dodge to blur the wrinkles around her eyes, mouth and cheeks. I have also used Dodge to clear up some blemish, as you can see in the before photograph the lady has a mole upon her top lip. I tried to leave some of her wrinkles and lines however, because i wanted her to look realistic, as everyone gets lines when they smile.

Here is the before photograph.

Victorian hand tinting-

This is a very simples technique in photoshop as all you do is turn the photograph black and white. and the using a photoshop tool to rub out the area you want colour. However you do have to zoom in some you can make sure you only rub away the black and white to the section you want which can be quite tricky.

This style is most common in wedding photography, with the bride or some flowers in colour, and the the background and everyone else in black and white. This is a very good way of creating a key focus for a photography, which is why its so popular in weddings photography, because everyone wants the bride and groom to be the main focus.

Here are some examples of when this technique is used.

Here is an example of how this is used in wedding photography.

Snow Image.

I created this picture of snow by using many techniques on photoshop.

Here is my before 

And here is the same photograph after i edited it and created snow.

Twenty Selfies.

I took twenty selfies of myself over 30 days, each photograph is different with either having friends, family and even a few pets included. I did this over Photoshop and had to create many layers and adjust all the photos to suitable sizes and areas where there all visible. 

Here is a mind map of all my ideas to go towards the Digital slide show.