Evaluation

In this assignment we had 6 weeks to choose an image that we want to re-create. I knew i wanted to do a beauty shot/fashion type of image and in the end i chose the close-up beauty shot. I found the task ok but when it came to editing it took a while because i wanted the attention to detail. I kept looking at the original image and tried to match it as close as i could. I think the image that i made was good and quite close to the original and i am happy with the way it turned out.
If i were to do the task again i would probably choose a model with a paler skin tone but other than that i think im pleased with the outcome.

Second edit...

After comparing my copy to the actual image i decided to edit it again and try to make the skin colour lighter.
This is how close i could match it:

My copied image...

These are the photo's of me carrying out the task and taking my photo's.

To re-create this photo i had to ask Kayleigh to do her make-up and get her hair up out of her face to try and get her to look like the model in the image. We set up the studio for a beauty shot with the lights just focussed on her face. 

Once all the photos were taken i took the camera and uploaded all my images and chose the one closest to the image to work on. I edited the image in photoshop, i made Kayleigh's lips bigger and changed the colour of her skin and smoothed the face and added shine by putting vaseline on her face. I also enhanced the colour of her eye to try and get it as close to the copied image as possible.

How my photograph is similar to the chosen photographers work...

Both mine and the original photographers images were taken in colour, taken as a beauty shot and was a close up shot. My photo is obviously edited more than the original but other than that i dont think the quality difference is that bad. I think both images send out the same message it could be a make-up advert or just a normal beauty shot. Both images were taken indoors which is another similarity.

Copying a photo

This is the image i chose to try and copy, Im going to photograph Kayleigh in the studio to try and get the image as close to the original as i can.

Creating my own painted image

Today we had to take a picture of someone on an interesting background from head to toe and upload it to photoshop and change it to black and white. Once we'd done this we had to print it out and paint over the image making it as colourful as we could.

This is my final image, once the photo dried we scanned the image back into the computer.

Painting over black and white images

Hand-colouring (or hand-coloring) refers to any method of manually adding colour to a black-and-white photograph, generally either to heighten the realism of the photograph or for artistic purposes. Hand-colouring is also known as hand painting or overpainting.
Typically, watercolours, oils, crayons or pastels, and other paints or dyes are applied to the image surface using brushes, fingers, cotton swabs or airbrushes. 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.

Making a 3D image

3D Photography

Stereoscopy (also called stereoscopic or 3-D imaging) refers to a technique for creating or enhancing the illusion of depth in an image by presenting two offset images separately to the left and right eye of the viewer. These two-dimensional images are then combined in the brain to give the perception of 3-D depth. Besides the technique of freeviewing, which must be learned by the viewer, three strategies have been used to mechanically present different images to each eye: have the viewer wear eyeglasses to combine separate images from two offset sources, have the viewer wear eyeglasses to filter offset images from a single source separated to each eye, or have the lightsource split the images directionally into the viewer's eyes (no glasses required; known as Autostereoscopy).

Taking the pictures:
It is necessary to take two photographs for a stereoscopic image. This can be done with two cameras, with one camera moved quickly to two positions, or with a stereo camera incorporating two or more side-by-side lenses.

• Long base line monochrome stereogram anaglyphed for red-cyan filters.
• The viewpoint is from Dinosaur Hill Park above the city of Pleasant Hill, California. The image is of Lime Ridge in the center Shell Ridge to the right, with portions of Mount Diablo in the background.
• A single camera was used to capture two images, the second taken by walking about 100 ft (30 meters) after taking the first. When taking a picture like this it is important that the baseline is at right angles to the distant viewpoint and that the elevations of the cameras are identical. The latter is best achieved by walking along a contour of constant elevation. The two images were converted to grayscale and the left image used for red channel of final image, right image for green and blue channels, although the technique is not restricted to a monchrome production.
• The separation is insufficient to resolve the two peaks of mount diablo (not shown in this image). It appears that that would require at least a 100 meter (330 ft) baseline.
• Leonard G. made this image for the stereoscopy article.

Behance Network

The Behance Network is an online portfolio platform for creative professionals across multiple industries, including photography, graphic design, illustration, and fashion. Organizations such as the AIGA, Adweek, ADC, and MTV have partnered with the Behance Network to create galleries of creative work. They did a series of 3D images in Berlin.

Research - Nick Knight

Nick Knight is among the world’s most influential photographers as well as being Director & founder of SHOWstudio.com the fashion & art internet broadcasting channel.  He has won numerous awards for his editorial work for Vogue, Dazed & Confused, W magazine, i-D, and Visionaire, as well as for fashion and advertising projects for clients including Christian Dior, Alexander McQueen, Calvin Klein, Levi Strauss, Yohji Yamamoto and Yves Saint Laurent. On the 24th October 2006 Nick Knight was awarded the prestigious Moet Chandon Fashion Tribute for 2006, which he celebrated by throwing a masked ball at Horace Walpoles Gothic revival treasure, Strawberry Hill.

As a fashion photographer, Nick Knight has consistently challenged conventional notions of beauty.  His first book of photographs, skinheads, was published in 1982.  He has since produced Nicknight, a 12 year retrospective, and Flora, a series of flower pictures.  Knight’s work has been exhibited at such institutions as the Victoria & Albert Museum, Saatchi Gallery, the Photographers Gallery and Hayward Gallery and recently The Tate Modern.  He has produced a permanent installation, Plant Power, for the Natural History Museum in London.

Different beauty shots

I am searching for different beauty shots, from the more natural and minimalistic to more make-up and posing shots and then also close ups. It would probably be easier to recreate the more natural beauty shot, i would just have to find a model who's skin, eyes and hair are as close to the models as it can be.

Possible idea's for my final image

These images are taken from shoots carried out by the models from America's Next Top Model cycles... I will probably base my final image on fashion and beauty shoots and probably recreate one of these.

This is my favourite image so far, this beauty shot has been airbrushed and minipulated. Id like to use this image for my final one to copy but i'll still look for other options.

Views of burton photoshopped

 Edit 1 - Radial blur - zoom...

Radial Blur - Spin...

Edit 2 - Hue/Saturation...

Edit 3 - Gaussian Blur...

Summary

I think i would use the gaussian blur and hue/saturation tool more in my editing than the other effects, i think they work well and the hue/saturation tool could look better on a black and white image.