Shoot 4

Shooting list

(Rachel)

Location: Wyggeston & Queen Elizabeth I College (Studio)

Time: 12:30pm onwards

Props: Peacock feathers

Mood: Serious and Happy

Composition: Majority central

Contact sheets

Best images and Adjusted images

Screenshots

EDIT 1

For this image, I only had to make one adjustment to it in which was the eyes. I thought that the eyes could do with a bit more brightening and darkening in places to stand out. So, what did was select the ‘Elliptical Marquee Tool’ in which allowed me to draw around the part of the eye that I wanted (eyeball). So I did this then a right clicked on the shape and it gave me a drop down list full of options, I then selected ‘Layer via Copy’ which copied it on to another layer so that when I was editing the eye that’s all it was editing and not the whole image.

I then selected ‘Image’ --> ‘adjustments’ --> ‘levels’ in which I then changed the levels of the brightness and darkness to get the best final outcome that I was happy with.  

EDIT 2, 3 & 4 

To start off editing this image, I selected 'Image' --> 'Adjustments' --> 'Vibrance' in which allowed me to change how bright the colours where, but as a whole image. I couldn't just change the vibrancy of one colour with this option. 

After doing that, I used the 'burn' and 'dodge' tool to change the eyes. These allowed me to darken the shadows and brighten the highlights and midtones within the eyes to make them stand out more.

 After doing these steps for edits 3 & 4 I then smoothed out the skin to give it a good overall look. To do this I first duplicated the layer.

 Secondly, I selected the option 'Layer' --> 'Layer Mask' then --> 'Hide All' so that when I was selecting the amount of surface blur I wanted, it wouldn't affect the actual image. 

Then lastly, I selected the 'Paint Brush Tool' which I then drawn over the skin so that the smoothness would appear through, so that it'd blur it giving me smooth skin. 

Review

This shoot so far is the best one. Personally, I like this shoot a lot. I'd taken the colour of the back drop and type of make up into consideration and the shoot thankfully turned out very well. In my opinion, I think the colour back drop suits the model a lot more, and I like how the colour of the lips and back ground are the same colour. I may keep the idea of the lips and back drop being the same colour for my next shoot, however I might try it out with green instead of the blue colour, or may try it with white or black.