306 Editing portraits

 Unit 306 Portrait Editing

Original image

Cropped to improve image

Remove blemishes

Adjust levels

Sharpen the image using unsharp mask

Produce a border

A thin white border then a thicker black border

Final image

306 Editing products

Unit 306 Editing products

Oringanl image

Rotate image

Crop Image

Clone out parts you dont need like the

 not to be sold separately baner around top of drink

Adjust levels to improve image

Sharpen image using unsharp mask

Produce a border using canves option

Final image

Peter Lindbergh

Peter Lindbergh

protrait reseach


Peter lindbergh was born in 1944 in lissa poland he is one of the most famous fashion photographers today .
Lindbergh lives and works in Paris, New York, and Arles
Hes first apprenticship he completed was in window dressing in 1963 .
He then started to study painting in berlin , In 1971 he got hes 1st break in photograpy by becoming the photography assistant to hans lux .
In 1973 he began working for himself as a free-lance fashion photographer , by 1978 he had been publication in stern and this would be a mojor proffessinal breakthrough
Soon after he moved to paris and began publishing his work in all the major fashon magazines from vogue to fanity fair and rolling stone .

He has also worked for major fashion designers such as Prada , Calvin Klein and Giorgio Armani

 In 1995 and 1997, he received the International Fashion Award as the best photographer in Paris

I like the tonal range of this photo the use of her hair
The compostion and pose he has asked for makes this a great photo
I like the leading lines of her arms leading to the models face



This adverting photo for is a great use of the model kate moss
It shows kate at her best and the fine jewelry



I love this balck and whote image
it looks like it was took with a high iso to make the image more earthe




Kate moss i like the use of space
Having the model to the side of the photo
I like the use of black and white and tonal range
The hair and make up is great



I love this shot of kate using a mirror
It had great depth of field with lovly tonal ranges
The composition is great





Another adverting shot for david yurman
The model is made to look like shes naked just wearing the fine jewelry
The jewelry and is well lit and one side of the models face is lit while other side in slight shadow




A great shot slightly side on
I like the lighting and the tonal range of her skin against the dress
I like how this photo is framed using a black border



A portarit of a model laying down
i like the use of her arms and hands
I like the shapes and form of the model




A shot of kate winslet using a wall as a backdrop and the sky



I like this shot
I like the use of the arms to frame the face
And the use of black and white to bring out the freckles of the model
I think this photo has good composition and a good focal point



This is one of my favourite photos from Peter Lindbergh
I love how he captures the model
I like the use of the hand in front used as a leading line
to bring you into the photo
I also like the hand on the face
its a beautiful photo with a great composition .





Backstage at a Peter Lindbergh photo shoot

Exhibitions

The Pushkin Museum in Moscow showed photography for the first time in 2002 with a big Peter Lindbergh retrospective. His work has been exhibited many of the major museums around the world .








                                                                Books

Since 1996, his photographs have been published in numerous books.







                                                                 Films and music videos


Lindbergh has shot commercials,
documentaries, and music videos for Tina Turner
 His thirty-minute documentary film “Inner Voices” has also received many awards

Tina turner video directed by Peter Lindbergh

As i was researching John Brackenbury studio product work i decided to try and copy one of her photos i decided to try to take a photo of a water droplet simliler to his

Origanl image of a john Brackenbury water droplet

This image is great

The  Equipment i used for my water droplet was

A old fish tank

Canon 450 d
lens 60mm macro lens
Fish tank
336 vm mini studio flash to light up the background blue card
208 wide angle slave flash to help light the water
Flash gun to light the water droplets
Food dye in water and in bag hanging down

Canon450d

Lens 60mm

Shutter speed 1/200 sec

Aperture f/5.6

Metering Evualtive

Flash

Canon450d

Lens 60mm

Shutter speed 1/80 sec

Aperture f/5.6

Metering Evualtive

Flash

Canon 450d

Lens 60mm

Shutter speed 1/200 sec

Aperture f/5.6

Metering Evualtive

Flash



Canon450d

Lens 60mm

Shutter speed 1/200 sec

Aperture f/5.6

Metering Evualtive

Flash


Conclusion

I had 3 shoots and trying water droplets and with pratice i think i impoved my techniqie to quite a good standard of water droplet

Alex kolsokov

Alex kolsokov

As i was researching Alex kolsokov studio product work i decided to try and copy one of her photos the

one of the bottle in the water

orignal images

These shots where recreated with him and hes wife helping with the water

I tyre somthing similar useing the same methord and experiment with differnet teqnices

This it here video on how the shots above where taken

         This is the final image orignal image from alex kolsokov

The idea is to use water as a ultimate background is to emphasize the product: water can be transparent or 100% reflective, when you see the water surface at relatively sharp angle, it become almost 100% reflective, acting as a mirror.

Now, if we'll disturb the water surface so it will form a waves, some part of the wave will be a mirror-like, and some will be transparent, allowing light to be transmitted. Lighting setup for water splash photography:

                                                                         The set up

He has used a gray backdrop behind the tank because gray can be easily darkened or highlighted. The floor under the tank is white, aslo used as a additional reflector.

There are two lights from the top: one, more intense (1600WS full power) 10 degrees spot to be reflected from the surface (follow the dot line), 20 degrees spot to highlight a background visible through the tank.

Two spot lights were used to highlight the object, one from the front-top, shown on the schema drawing. the second was from the right behind....

I had a similer set up with 4 light

I used two 336v AC Studio flashes one was above to light up the bubbles

The seconed one was from be hide the bottle

I also used two 208W AC Slave Flash Wide Angle AC Slave Flash

One i used a yellow filter to help to bring out the yellow in the bottle

This was postioned in front of the bottle

I also used the other slave flash above to help with lighting the bottle

The first two shots are early attempts to capture the method

Canon 450d

Lens 60mm

Shutter speed 1/80 sec

Aperture f/20

ISO 100

Metering Evaluative

Add caption

Comparison

Original image and one of my images using the same method apart from i used a blue backdrop

and alex used a filter to light up hes backgrounds for hes two tone look

original image

My image

Conclusion

I was quite happy i captured some quite good effects in the water

With some work in photoshop i think i could improve the image also