Digital Technology 1 - Week 6 - Photo Merge and Diptych Exercise

High ISO Portrait edited in Camera Raw to reduce noise.

As you can see, I adjusted the noise reduction and sharpening panels in Camera Raw. I zoomed in to my subjects face and the background so that you can see the significant difference between the two images. The reason the noise was so high in the first image was because it had such a high level of ISO that in order to capture the image with such little lighting, the ISO had to be risen.

In class exercise (photo merge):

After we took a photograph of the scenery outside, we then opened them in Photoshop and allowed Photoshop to merge the photographs into a panorama. This was done by clicking File > Automate > Photomerge.

Below is before and after cropping and flattening the layers of the image. This ensures a flat and cropped image .

In class exercise (diptych):
I used Photoshop to put both these photos on the black background evenly. This was after I edited the photos in Camera Raw by decreasing the contrast and increasing the highlights and exposure to really bring out the detail in the photographs. I made sure that both of the images and the background were all on seperate layers to ease the manoeuvrability of the images.

Self Directed Work (Photomerge):

This process was the same as the in class exercise. I used different images this time and opened them in photoshop, once again clicking File > Automate > Photomerge. Below is before and after cropping of the photo merge process that I have documented in a screen shot and below that is the final photo merge panorama of a section of my room. I am pleased with how it turned out and am also glad that it captured a lot of the detail I was afraid the camera would have missed, in colour and texture. For example, I like how the light from the window casts shadows around my wall and the objects in my room. It really captures that morning light feel thats cooler than, to me, that of evening light. It's important to note that I saved the final as a jpeg so it was web compatible.

Self Directed Work: (diptych)

The images in this diptych are meant to be grainy, it is part the artistic effect I have tried to create with the photographs. This, again, was the same process as the first diptych that I did in class. I really like how this turned out. It resembles the grainy, vintage and low saturated colour theme I was going for that resembles the work of the Brandy Melville Fashion Catalogues.

Their photos have much more orangey tones to the skin where as I prefer the pale tones that make the image look a lot cooler rater than warm with sunshine. So that you can get an idea, here are some examples from Brandy Melville that I used as a theme model for this diptych: