(SOMEWHERE) somewhere I visit often

I chose to take a photo of my xbox controller because i usually visit my room go to my sofa and pick up my xbox controller and play xbox for quite a long time usually. I also used the light box's to take the photo to give me better light against the controller.

What i wanted to do to this photo was get rid of the distracting brown in the left hand side of the photograph and also make the buttons a little more colourful and deep.

I used the "crop" tool on photoshop to crop my photo so that i could remove the left hand side of the photo so that the distracting brown will be gone and the xbox controller will be center of attention. 

I selected what i wanted to crop and then pressed the "tick" button to confirm that was what i wanted to crop. 

The photograph has now been cropped and you can see the left hand side of the photo is gone leaving just the controller in the photo. In this print screen i have now moved on to making the buttons on the controller i bit more colourful. I made a marquee box over the buttons and then created a layer for hue and saturation of that box. I then changed the hue and saturation to what i felt looked best and gave me the effect i wanted of more colour and a little bit deeper.

This is to show you the hue and saturation bars after i had changed them to what i wanted. 

This is a close up print screen of the buttons after i edited them. 

This is my final edited photography for somewhere i visit often

(SOMEWHERE) editing

For editing this photograph i decided to edit the hue and saturation of the picture. I wanted to do this because the blood in the original photograph i felt looked too red and like paint and i wanted to change this to look more realistic. I moved the hue and saturation bar around until i found a colour that i felt looked best. 

This is the photograph after i changed the hue and saturation, the blood looks more realistic and grungy rather that too bright and colourful like paint.

(SOMEWHERE) somewhere i would leave my heart.

These photos are of the development of making Laura's hands look bloody and trying to make it look as realistic as possible. I wanted to create a gruesome theme to this photograph as well as having a strong meaning behind it. If i was going to symbolically leave my heart somewhere i would choose to leave it with Laura as i know i can trust her with it and it would be safe and cared for. Realistically if Laura was to actually look after my heart i would imagine it to be rather gruesome. I wanted to combine both the symbolic and realistic sides of this into one photograph and i feel that i have achieved that. 

For taking the photographs i used a lamp to shine onto Laura's hands in a dark room.

I took this photo to document this project from the start, to show that before i put the fake blood on to her hands i was choosing how i would like Laura's hands to be and positioning them in the way i wanted.

This photo is showing the start of putting the fake blood onto Laura's hands and i felt that it was not enough blood and i wanted to cover more of her hand and in fact put some blood down her wrists.

I had then put more blood on to her hands and also put some down her wrists. I positioned her hands how i wanted for the photo and i started to take my photographs.

What i did not like about this photo is that you could not see the different thicknesses of the blood or the different tones and it all just looked one colour.  

This photo was too bright and the blood looked too much like paint and unrealistic although you could see the thickness and different tones in the blood a little easier.

I decided to experiment with the way the hands were positioned and so i instructed Laura about how i wanted them. Unfortuanatly in the photograph the lighting was not on her left hand and i think that i ruins the photograph an it is not how i wanted it.

I changed the position of Laura's hands again and i found that i liked how this position looked more than the first one. In this photo you are able to see the different thickness and tones in the blood as well and that is what i wanted in the photograph. The only thing i found was that maybe the photo was too dark but i decided that if this was to be my final photo i can edit it and make it lighter.

This was just another experimental photo in front of the glass in the back door of her house. I wanted to see whether or not the pattern went well behind her hands or the lighting in the room gave a better effect. I found that the doors glass pattern did not work in my opinion but the lighting in the room did show the different tones and thicknesses in the blood and gave it that realism which is what i wanted.

This is just a photo of her washing her hands. The funny thing is it was perminent and didnt exactly come off!

(SOMEWHERE) editing my somewhere i could go to dream

This is my editing of my somewhere i could dream photo. I needed to make the stars brighter so i opened up the photo into Photoshop and i decided to used the dodge tool and selected shadows so that it would brighten the shadows in the photo where i wanted. I used the tool and i clicked over all of the stars and planets to brighten where i selected.

The photograph below is the edited photo once i have used the dodge tool to brighten up the stars.

What i then wanted to do was fill in the space in the middle of the stars so i decided to use the cloning tool to clone some of the stars into the empty space. I used the "alt" button to select where i wanted to clone from and then filled in the stars where i wanted. This made the photo look less empty and you are not distracted by the big space in the middle of the photo as it is now full of stars.

This is my fully edited using clone and dodge tool photograph for somewhere i can dream.

(SOMEWHERE) somewhere you can go to dream

Here are my two photographs for somewhere you can go to dream. They are of the glow in the dark stars in my bedroom and i thought that they represented somewhere you can go to dream because i have always thought of shooting stars and space. What i wanted to do was take a long exposure photograph of  the clear sky at night and have a photograph of star spirals but my camera does not have long enough exposure.

 This photo was of the glow in the dark stars on my wall with an exposure of about 8 seconds and the F stop to around 5.6. The setting that i had used did not allow enough light to come in and therefore the glow in the dark stars did not really show up at all.

To get the stars to show up alot more i set the shutter speed to the highest setting which is 30 seconds and i set the F stop to i think 29. This would let more light in and the stars show up more.
The photo still does not show up the glow in the dark stars completely and there is also a space where there are no glow in the dark stars so i plan to use the clone tool to fill in that space with some stars and a moon. I will also use photoshop to brighten the stars.

(SOMEWHERE) Edited somewhere you should not go

This is my edited version of my somewhere you should not go photo.
To edit this photo what i did was the same as what i did to my somewhere dark photo so i have not shown how i edited it. I used hue and saturation and selected the sky in the photo and then changed the hue and saturation to get the colour i wanted.
I like this photo with the sky edited purple rather than the original but i think that maybe it looks a little to bold and im not sure if it goes with the colour/tone of the wall.

(SOMEWHERE) you should not go!

These are the photographs that i took for "somewhere you should not go". These photos are of the scary witches door that i have explained in a post further down my blog.

I took these photos using a tripod and long exposure. I had to use a tripod so that the camera would not shake whilst i was taking the photo. I used the setting TV for all of the photographs so that i could change the shutter speed easily and it is also a lot easier to use than manual which im still not very good with (but practicing).

 This is a more close up photo of the door and i thought that it looked a little boring as there is not much to see and i had not made full use of the trees in the back ground or the arch above the door.

 This picture includes the trees, the arch and a lot more interest is added to the photo because of this. I like the sky in this picture and the colour of the green on the leaves of the trees. What i did not like about this photo though was the big shadow of a tree trunk in the left and side. What i could do to get rid of that is to just crop the picture or i could use the clone tool on Photoshop although this would take up a considerate amount of time and attention to detail would make it very hard.

 For this photo i used an exposure of 8 seconds and got Laura to stand to the left of the door while i was taking the photograph. I counted down to 4 then shouted to laura to run out of the shot a quickly as possible. This meant that for only 4 seconds of the full 8 was she standing in the cameras view and this gave her a ghost like effect where she is see through and not very visible. She is very hard to see in this photo as i asked her to move a little too quickly i think.

For this photo i used an exposure again of 8 seconds but i got laura to stand in the shot for longer that the last time so that she would be less translucent and easier to see but still appear ghost like if looked at closely. This photo is my favorite because the way laura is standing and looking in at the door makes it seem like she is hesitant of going in, it shows curiosity. This is what i would associate somewhere you should not go with because you would be curious because you want to know what is behind the door that you should not know about a go, but also hesitant because its the unknown and you know your not supposed to be there!

(SOMEWHERE) editing my somewhere dark photo

This is my original photograph without any editing. What i want to do is just add some extra colour into the photo and make it look a little more out there!

I dont have very much experience with photoshop so i chose to spend some time just tinkering and messing around with the tools on photoshop for practice and to get an idea about each tool and what they do.
                           This is a print screen of the photo after i have used the posterize effect.

                  

In this print screen i was changing the hue/saturation of the picture and this then gave me the idea to change the colour of just the sky in my photograph, i thought it would look good and if i could do it correctly look more realistic than just photoshopped in.

I made a rectangular section covering the sky which would be the only part of the photo to change colour, i then used the brush tool to erase the purple colour from where i did not want it. It took quite a while to have to zoom in and use a small brush diameter to go around the edges of the trees and the rays of light coming from the street lamps.

Then i decided to alter the hue/saturation of the grass in the photo, i did the same thing as i did to the sky. I made the grass a lighter green and brightened the highlights.
                                    This is my finished edited photograph for "somewhere dark"

(SOMEWHERE) you can only go to make wishes

I have had an idea for this photograph and that is to take a long exposure photograph of the stars at night. This is because when i think of making wishes i think of shooting stars. Once i have taken the photograph of the stars i can then include my image manipulation by using photoshop to add a shooting star.
To take this photograph i will need the sky to be clear and i will also need to use a tripod and shutter remote to be able to set the amount of time i want for the shutter to stay open.