Montage
I saw some shots on a wedding forum that looked really cool, like a collage of pictures that were essentially the same picture but with slight variations. I’d thought I’d use some old pictures of Rachael playing fallout and try my hand at it. I converted them into black and white and imported them all into Photoshop, I made each picture portrait and free transformed them as individual layers. I found it quite relaxing and fun to find shots that relate to each other. These were otherwise redundant pictures but make a pretty good piece all together.I might try some more…..
Out of focus, but still good?
I’ve been a member of a photography forum for a few months now and on this forum they have a critique section. I look at the “people” critique quite a lot. I want to learn more and think I learn a lot from listening to them. Particularly when it comes to portrait pictures and how to get the focus on the eyes. i never realised how important it was until someone pointed it out. I do find that they tend to stick to the rules, a lot of the older members are very into rules of thirds and correct whitebalance, they can never just say it’s a good shot.
I know that if I were to post this picture on there it wouldn’t go down well, they would say it’s out of focus and the exposure is causing detail to be blown out, but despite all of that I like this picture.
I like it a lot. It makes me want to go back through my pictures and take another look at all of the ones I dismissed just because the focus was slightly off or the lighting could have been better.
I wonder how many people who follow the rules miss out on pictures because they don’t tick a few boxes.
Poster Images
We’ve completed a couple of the poster images for AMT Productions. I personally hate photoshop and would happily throw it onto the nearest motorway, but Rachael has been very patient and tried to teach me some basics.
I decided to try what I thought were the easiest ones. Lord Of The Rings and Clerks….simples…or not.
The actual Posters will be made by the AMT team but we wanted to get the images as close to the inspirational ones as possible. The Lord of The Rings was problematic due to the original positioning of the hand and the colour tone. Rach taught me how to cut out the arm and move it and also how to burn and fade the shadows.
Clerks is a very iconic poster to people of a certain generation and although we couldn’t get the angle quite right (height issues, even with a stepladder and a chap of over 6 foot tall!) I think we caught it quite well. I had to convert to black and white then cut out all of the actors and place onto a white background. As you can see i seem to have mastered the cut out tooly thingy, but I can’t get rid of the pesky shadows…maybe another lesson is in order.
Lock and Key Shoot.
We wanted to do some images for this site and twitter. We wanted something that reflected some of our personalities and had an element of fun.
This is the first time we have both been in shots together, normally one of is dictating to the other. The timer was used which meant Rach had to leg it round to the other side of the table, but we think they came out pretty good.
AMT Shoot.
Amt asked us to shoot some pictures for their revamped website (www.askmetomorrow.com ). They have recently added a new member to the team and wanted to have some shots of all of them together. They were unclear of how they wanted the pictures to feel and left it up to us.
Knowing what their new project is about and how much they like tea we met in a lovely place called North Tea Power in Manchester. they were happy enough to let us use it (as a plus point they have wonderful teas!)
As is the norm in Manchester the weather was rubbish and cloudy. we found a few locations and decided in post processing to make the pictures have a film like feel.
Here are some results;
Lock and Key Photography 