Carol: Unit 57 Task 1

Self Portrait Unit 57 Carol Task 1

Kirsty Richardson

Original Photo

1) Adjust Exposure

For this photo, I used the exposure tool in photoshop. The settings I used were:

Exposure - +0.87

Offset - -0.0492

Gamma Correction - 0.91

In this photo, I wanted to have the picture a lot lighter than the original as the original was quite dark and musty. I wanted the focus point to be the face and using this exposure, it helped even out the skin tones more and make the face look more flawless as it was lighter.

2) Adjust Colour: Dark and Moody

For this image, I used the Vibrance and set it at -26. I wanted the picture to be dark but still have a little colour in. The typical thing to do when you think of an image that is moody is to typically make it straight to black and white, and that is why I wanted this image to have a little bit of colour. The facial expression doesn't really match the tone I was going for with the image, but the adjustments in photoshop were what I intended them to be.

Bright and Sunny

For this image, I used the tone curve to create a bright and sunny effect. I like how this image has highlighted the face a lot, like how it would if sun was directly shone at someone's face, the face would be the lightest part of the image. 

In this image, I also airbrushed the hair slightly. I wanted to make it look more shiny and also get rid of the fly away hairs on the right hand side of the image. Because of the tone curve, it made the fy away hairs really stand out and made it a focus part of the image so I wanted to get rid of them so the main focus point of the image would be the face.

Abstract

For this image, I just used the saturation filter to make the whole image purple. This is not as abstract as it could've been, however it is still abstract as no one has a purple face naturally.

3) Cropping: ECU

For this image, I use the cropping tool to create an extreme close up. I wanted to focus on the eyes as they aren't that visible on the original image so I wanted to focus on those more. 

Non Central

For this image, I also used the cropping tool to crop exactly half of the image. This is quite effective as the space next to the main focus of the image is equal to what it would be on the other side, and this was the effect I was trying to go for.

4) Cover Star

For this image, I airbrushed. The face, hair and also cropped it.

I wanted to make the face look flawless and have the teeth looking more white. I don't really like this image as it looks too fake and unreal. I also should have made the crop more equal so there was the same amount of space on the left than there is on the right. I tried to go for a cover girl portrait magazine look but it doesn't really look how I imagined it.