What is Photography?
In our critical and contextual studies, we were asked to answer the question, “what is photography?” There is no definite answer for this question, for photography is many things to many p... Read More
Feedback Task
We were tasked with making some minor edits to these images and to merge them together. I did this using various tools: spot healing to fix some minor blemishes and layer masks to cut the model out fr... Read More
Radial Filters
For me, this image is underexposed. The background is too dark and my model needed more light. To fix this, I opened it up in Photoshop’s Camera Raw filter and adjusted the exposure by about hal... Read More
Changing The Channel
Here’s an image I recently took. It’s technically a perfectly fine photograph but it wasn’t to my taste. So I took it into Photoshop to make some changes. Adding a curves adjustment ... Read More
Mask and Montage
Using layer masks I was able to cover the bin bag in the corner of the stairway using another photograph of an orange. This is a technique that can be used to add objects or people to a photograph tha... Read More
Opening Our Eyes
Sometimes when we have a large gathering waiting to take a photograph, such as at a wedding, some of the guests might blink or look away at an inopportune time. As photographers, it is part of our job... Read More
Does Changing Colours Mean Changing The Truth?
Photoshop is an effective tool that can completely change a scene, prompting the arguments that nothing is real in photography anymore (a topic I am keen to go deeper into at a later time!)However, as... Read More
Advanced Cloning and Does Photography Speak The Truth?
SPOT HEALING My first task was to retouch this image. It is a simple retouch which uses the “spot healing brush”. By adding a new layer, I could do this non-destructively so any mistakes c... Read More