Photoshopping

We were taught last week by our Media teacher Matt how to use basic Photoshop, how to cut out and change elements of photos, increase or decrease colour/brightness/darkness and add effects to pictures. This week me Spooner and Hector went around the school taking photos and then had a go experimenting with Photoshop and editing the images in the editing suite. Here are some examples of the images I edited and how I edited them.

For the photos of me as superman I used the lasso tool to cut myself out of the photograph of me lying on a bench and I transferred myself into an image of a sky I took for photography. I added a wind contour filter to the photo to give the impression that I am flying fast, and a lens-flare filter behind my head to show that I have powers. Also I used the dodge and burn tools to create shadows and highlights on my flying body.

For the second photo, of Spooner and Hector as zombies I decreased the lighting of the photograph dramatically to show that it is a horror thriller themed picture of zombies. I then used a white low transparency paintbrush to give the 'zombies' a pale glow on their skin. The use of dodge and burn tool created the effects of bruises and a black eye on the zombies and the paintbrush again to draw on blood.

Photography Composition

Photography brings a visual language that is universal in understanding. We must then understand its vocabulary which consists of shapes, textures, patterns, lines, colours, shade of light to dark and sharp to blurry images. Just as we must learn to arrange words in a coherent order in order to make sense when we write or speak, so too must we put visual elements together in an organized manner if our photographs are to convey their meaning clearly and vividly.

Composition means arrangement: the orderly putting together of parts to make a unified whole; composition through a personal, intuitive act. However, there are basic principles that govern the way visual elements behave and interact when you combine them inside the four borders of a photograph. Once we have sharpened our vision and grasped these basic ideas of principles, then we will have the potential for making our photographs more exciting and effective than ever before.

About Myself

My name is Charles Lindsay I go to Hurtwood House school where I study Media, Photography, English and History. I enjoy media studies and I did it as a GCSE subject at my previous school. I enjoy listening to music, and watching films, some of my favourite are Wild Child, the Notebook and Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging.

I am looking forward to the planning and filming of our thriller and all the fun that we have along the way, it will be super! I hope to be envolved in the media when i'm older so I think this will be interesting and beneficial to my media understanding.


Some day I hope I can be as famous as Cliff Richards.