Self Directed Reflectors

This photo was taken without any reflectors, I wanted to see if i could bring out some colour on the inside of the flower.

This photo was taken with the silver reflector, but overexposed the inside of the flower.

I think this photo was taken with the white side of the reflector, it lightened the shadows a little and didnt over expose the flower. 

This photo was taken with the gold reflector, even thoough it enhanced the colour of the flower it overexposed the flower a little too much on one side.

Artist Research week 7 - Bill Henson

Bill Henson (born 7 October 1955)^[1] is an Australian contemporary art photographer.

I noticed that Henson's work is low key lighting, which can create deep shadows and different effect like loop lighting and Rembrant lighting. These photos above are good examples of low key lighting and are very Chairoscuro. 

Artist Research week 7 - Yuki Onodera

Yuki Onodera (born 1962) is a Japanese photographer. She graduated from the Kuwazawa Design School in Tokyo. 

I found that alot of her photos where Chairoscuro, meaning the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition. I also saw that Yuki's work was mainly black and white and usually contained dark shadows and silhouettes. 

Artist Research week 7 - Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson is a Danish-Icelandic artist known for sculptures and large-scale installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to enhance the viewer’s experience.

These  3 photos are one of his many projects, Your Rainbow Panorama. Olafur created a giant panorama of colour that people are welcome to walk around in, This was made up of multipule lights and slightly coloured glass.

Another project Olafur took on was The Weather Project (last photo) used humidifiers to create a fine mist in the air via a mixture of sugar and water, as well as a circular disc made up of hundreds of monochromatic lamps which radiated yellow light. The ceiling of the hall was covered with a huge mirror, in which visitors could see themselves as tiny black shadows against a mass of orange light.

Artist Research week 7 - Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdson (born September 26, 1962) is an American photographer who is best known for elaborately staged scenes of American homes and neighborhoods.

Gregory uses a strange magic in his photography, and im guessing that his photos, mostly of American towns that could be abandoned and dead (the colors too bright, the light too spooky) to create such an powerful and suggestive mood that the viewer becomes part of the story. AN example could be the uses of colour temperatures, if we look at photo 3 i would assume he would of used both gels and normal light to light the photo. The grass in this photo looks unnaturally green and im assuming he would of used a green gel to light up the grass to make it stand out more, and a blue/green gel to light the other part of grass. I think the majorities of these photos are quite dark and quite cold colour tones, which gives his work the creepy and airy look.

Week 7 -Lighting Setups

Split Lighting

For this set up of lights we uses split lighting, were we had one light facing directly on one side if the model, We used a F-Stop of 9.0, a Shutter Speed of 1/125 and an ISO of 100.

Loop Lighting

For this set up of lights we used Loop lighting, were we had one light on an angle and not directly front on causing a loop to form from the shadow of her nose. The loop lighting is similar to Rembrandt Lighting but instead the loop's shadow isn't touching the other shadow of her face. We used a F-Stop of 10.0, a Shutter speed of 1/125 and an ISO of 100.

Rembrandt Lighting

For this lighting set up we used Rembrandt lighting,were we had one light on a 45 degree angle and off to the side of the model to form a triangle under her eye. The Rembrandt lighting is similar to the Loop lighting cause the shadows under her eye make a triangle. We used a F-stop of 10.0, a Shutter speed of 1/125 and a ISO of 100.

Butterfly Lighting

For this lighting setup we used Butterfly Lighting, were we had one light which was positioned behind the photographer and the light was directed down onto the subject. We used a F-stop of 5.6 and 11.0, a Shutter speed of 1/125 and a ISO of 100.

Week 7 - Digital Tech - Retouching Exerise

Before

After

Self Directed Before

Self Directed After

Retouching in photoshop.

- Removing blemishes with healing brush

I created a new layer and named it blemishes, I used the spot healing brush to remove any blemishes from her face and some fly-away hairs.

- Smoothing skin

I duplicated the background layer  and named it soften skin, I had to open the filters panel and opened it into camera RAW. I decreased the clarity of the photo to smooth her skin but i only wanted her skin to be soft so back in photoshop i clicked on the layer mask and inverted the mask so the image went back to normal, I used the white brush and painted back over her face to bring back the low clarity.

- Teeth Whitening

I copied the layer background  and named it teeth and eyes. I used the lasso tool to loosely selected the area around her teeth, then made a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. In the colour range drop box i chose yellow and decreased the saturation until the teeth looked whiter and used the patch tool to remove the blemishes from her teeth.

- Eye Brightening 1

I stayed on the background layer and selected the whites of her eyes and went to the mask properties and feathered the outlines of the eyes so that it looked softer. I went to the photoshop menu and saved the selection of the eyes and then made a new Hue/Saturation layer, i left the colour range drop box on master and decreased the saturation to remove any odd clolours that were in the whites of her eyes.

- Eye Brightening 2

I reloaded the eye selection and added a curves adjustment layer, i then increased the curves slightly to brighten the whites of her eyes.

- Eye Brightening 3

I first created a new layer  and changed the blend mode to overlay. I used the brush tool and decreased its opacity to 40% and used the black brush to paint around the iris. I then used the white brush to paint around the pupil and went back to the layers panel and reduced the layer opacity unti the eyes look naturally bright.