Examples Of Other Peoples Hand Colored Photographs

Research Continuos Shooting

Continuos shooting is when the the camera setting is on 'continuos shooting' and allows you to captured photographs in a quick space of time either by holding the button down or repeatedly pressing the button. This shooting is mainly used in mixed-light conditions or when the subject of the image is moving, such as doing sports. When on this setting it will allow you to take up to three photos per second. Continuous shooting refers to how fast the camera can take images one after another in rapid succession as rated in fps (frames per second). Fast continuous shooting is great for catching action shots. Sometimes the action happens so quickly its hard catch the perfect shot, fast continuous shooting allows you to capture many closely spaced photographs so that you can pick the one which best captures the action. Many cameras allow you to shoot in continuous mode and choose the first or last n photos so that you can basically hold the trigger down until you see what you want and then let go.

Duane Michals

Duane Michals

Duane started taking snap shots when touring the world in 1958.  He said ‘There’s no other art from which reproduces reality with that kind of fidlity’.
His images are both documentary and portraiture due to him photographing people, and them documenting them into a sequence.
This image of his is called ‘Chance Meeting’ this name is significant and relates to his works because there are two men who walk past each other and relating to the name it looks like they haven’t seen each other in ages and have casually met in and ally way.
The work to me is about two men who know each other but haven’t met in ages, and then they both pass each other in an ally way and then realise who each other are once they have walked past. These images have been digitally manipulated because they look like they have been cropped down and changed in to black and white.
The composition on the images is really well done, he has thought about the lighting, and when he was taking the image. He has also thought about the location and got them out of the was so its just them to people passing and no one else is around at that time. Each image the men are getting closer so he has also thought about the distance of the two people on each image. These images are shown in one of his books, which is called ‘The Essential Duane Michals’.
His work inspired me to try and experiment doing different things with my images. That’s where the idea of sequencing my images came from. His work doesn’t relate to my assignment, however it does because I have I used the idea of sequencing my work. 

Research On Digitally Manipulated Images

This image has been manipulated due to the person on the podium being added to the image. To do this they would have had to use the 'magnetic lasso' tool to draw round the image and then they would have cut and paste it on to the original image.

This image looks like it has been done the same way. They would have cropped the image first so that they got it the right size to fit correctly onto the image. Also they would have used the 'magnetic lasso' tool to draw round the image and then they would have copy and pasted it on the the starting image.

This image looks like the brightness/contrast and the exposure has been pulled up to give it a darker effect. Also it looks like they have used the 'elliptical marquee' tool to keep part of the image in focus and blur the background. They would have also feathered it on about 200 and then used something like a Gaussian blur to blur the outside.

This image has also been manipulated. The shark would have been cut and paste also using the 'magnetic lasso' tool the draw around the image so that then only that section would copy and paste. ALso it looks like it has been cropped so that the shark looks like its jumping out of the water at the person on the helicopter.

Evaluation

For this assignment we have been asked to replicate a famous photograph. We have been given six weeks to complete this assignment. I photographed Molly doing a pose which was the same as another photograph. My work is about 'flexibility' and how you can replicate any image if you use your imagination and get the right equipment, and take all of the points from the other image into a count.

 I developed my idea because i was looking for photographs of the internet and wanted to replicate a famous fashion photograph. However i also wanted to do an image in black and white and that was very challenge, so i developed my idea to make it more challenging for me. Throughout this assignment i didn't change my idea as i still wanted to base it on fashion. 

I used a variety of equipment, i used: 

- The studio

- Camera

- Studio lighting

- Boxes

- Model

All of these pieces of equipment helped me to replicate and image. I learnt how to change the studio lighting  so that it was the same as the photograph i was copying. Also I've learnt to use my imagination when copying an image. 

During this shoot i came across a few problems. I found that the boxes we were using were to small, so to resolve this i change the boxes so that they were bigger and easier to use. Also when my model was putting her feet on the boxes they kept moving, so to overcome this problem i put a few heavier objects on to the boxes to keep them in the same place. When editing the image, i edited it to much when liquifying the image so i had to re-edit the image so that it was edit to much. 

I am pleased with my outcome, because it looks very similar to the famous photograph. I was pleased with the way it worked as well because my model didn't let me down, and was the right person to ask. However if i was asked to do this assignment again i would change the photograph i had chosen to replicate and make it more interesting. Also i would change how i edited the photograph to make it as close the the famous photograph as i could.

Comparing My Work

 

My phonograph is similar to the photographers work because i tired to replicate this image and tried to make it as close to the original image as i could. Both of our images are in black and white and have similar  shadowing. My work and the photographers image are also both individual images and are not a series of images. The photographers image is slightly smaller than my image, this is because i didn't know the accurate size of the image to replicate it into mine. I had to manipulate my image to get i the same as the original, however to me it looks like the photographer had to manipulate their image to get the writing and it into black and white. On the other hand i had to liquify my model to get her as slim as i could whilst keep her shape on her legs. Both of our images are sending the same message which is 'flexibility'. Which also links it into both images sending the same message to the viewers. Finally i think that both images have been composed in a similar way, due to the lighting, it being photographed indoors, and it is pretty close up. Also we have both used boxes so that the model has a good stance when showing their flexibility.

Continuous Shooting

For today’s task we were asked to go out and take ‘continuous’ shots of something in motion. We had to set the camera onto continuous setting so that we could click the button more that once straight after each other. I went out and got Molly to walk to some stairs while pressing the button continuously. Once we had done this we came back to class, and uploaded the images to the computers through image capture. After doing this we opened up our images into Photoshop, and then change the contrast using ‘levels’. We then chose our starting image, and with the rest of the images we cut them out using the ‘magnetic lasso’ tool, trying to do it as neat as we could. After doing this we click on the ‘quick mass mode’ tool so that we could neaten up the edges round the image. After doing this we cut and paste that image to our starting image, and moved it around so that it made a continuous image. We done this with a couple images to give it a nice effect.    

Final Image ^^

Hand Colouring Of Photographs

Hand-colouring refers to any method of manually adding colour to a black and white image. Hand-colouring is also known as hand painting.

Typically, watercolours, oils, crayons or pastels, and other paints and dies are applied to the image surface using brushes, fingers, cotton swabs or airbrushed. Hand-coloured photographs were most popular in the mid- to late-19th century before the invention of colour photography and some firms specialized in producing hand-coloured photographs.

Image Replicant

Here is my image (above) and the image I replicated (below): 

Final Image

In todays lesson, got the images i took last week and then edited it to make to look like the image i had chosen to replicate. Firstly, i turned the image to black and white, and then using the 'spot healing' tool i got rid of the bruises on her leg and the black marks that were on the walls in the studio. After doing this by using 'liquify' i was able to change the size of her leg and arms to match the replicant image. This took some time because the first image i done the legs were wobbly and to thin and they had no shape. Also on my first image i also done a bit of shading like it had on the other image, however this looked messy so when i went to re-do the image after i left the shading out, so it was kept neat and clean. After doing it again i got it as close to the image as i could keeping the shape and trying to not wobble the leg. After 'liquifiying' the image i wrote the text onto the image using the 'T' tool on the left hand side of Photoshop. I then had to rotate the writing so that it was going down the side of the image correctly, also i had to change the colour, font and text size so that it matched the replicant image. 

Below shows the stages i followed to get my replicant image:

 First try at editing the image, and realised that it was to edited and that it needed re-doing.

This shows how i got the shadow on to the text.

Above are the stages i went through to get this final image.