I don't understand how, but half of my work is missing from my blog, such as 'Ducky Undressed' and the chinese lady whose eye colour I changed.
I found this class sort of difficult. Firstly I found getting to grips with doing a 'blog' difficult, and I have been going round in circles with it at times. Then later, some of my work is missing and I don't know how, but I did complete all tasks.
I found the Ducky task quite easy, but would have to think hard to remember how.
The layer mask was okay, not sure I got it properly, but learned how to select and then colour in the selected area.
Scanning in negatives is handy, and then airbrushing them.
I think I found this class difficult, or I couldn't get into it. I have been using Photoshop for years, and I do it a certain way which I was already used to, and then I found it difficult to get into it a different way, and also, my brain works on a 'need to know' basis.
I think digital is really good, but i'm not really into airbrushing that much, I like images to look more 'real'.
I think you have to practice a lot to get really good at it. If I get a job in the future where I need to do some major airbrushing, i'll call Sandra or Charlotte because they are really good at it!
Tuesday, 16 June 2009
Differences between Darkroom and Digital
Film and digital are very different techniques. Digital is more efficient and cost effective, and easier to manipulate. These days most photographers use digital. With digital you can see the image straight away, you can delete all the images you don't like, no processing and use of chemicals, you can check the quality of the enlarged image before printing, you can shoot hundreds and thousands of images at no cost because you can just delete them and start again if you want to. You can email the images, put them on websites etc, can mimick film too, and you can turn the images into black and white, and airbrush them as much as you want to create the perfect image. Digital is more effective, after you have bought all your equipment.
Film is different and more expensive because you can't reuse film and there are only 36 exposures. You can't see the images straight away, you have to get the film developed and then make the contact sheets, and you couldn't airbrush them in the past, but you can scan in negatives now and airbrush them and do the same as you do with digital, and the colour is better. For example, if you compare a black and white digital image with a film black and white film image, the film is definately much better, it has better contrast and quality and tone, and in the dark room, and you can do a lot of manipulation with it to get the contrast just how you want it. Digital overtook film, but now that you can scan in negatives and do more or less the same with film, I think film will make a come back.
I like that you can take digital photos and see them straight away, and do tests with digital cameras, but then I always want to take the real photos with the film camera, it just seems more professional, more 'real'.
Film is different and more expensive because you can't reuse film and there are only 36 exposures. You can't see the images straight away, you have to get the film developed and then make the contact sheets, and you couldn't airbrush them in the past, but you can scan in negatives now and airbrush them and do the same as you do with digital, and the colour is better. For example, if you compare a black and white digital image with a film black and white film image, the film is definately much better, it has better contrast and quality and tone, and in the dark room, and you can do a lot of manipulation with it to get the contrast just how you want it. Digital overtook film, but now that you can scan in negatives and do more or less the same with film, I think film will make a come back.
I like that you can take digital photos and see them straight away, and do tests with digital cameras, but then I always want to take the real photos with the film camera, it just seems more professional, more 'real'.
Ducky has been Kidnapped!!!
Has anyone seen my 'Undressed Ducky'?!! It used to be on this page, but has mysteriously vanished!!!
Scanned in Negatives
Below are 6 x 6 negatives that were scanned in. The top image is the BEFORE it was airbrushed, the one below is the AFTER.
The background was not white enough, it was grey, so I used the dodge tool to brighten the background, and then I burned the image of the subject to make it look more high contrast, because it was supposed to be a recreate an image by David Bailey.
Also, I was asked a question by Diane in class which I could not answer - the question was "what is the first thing you do when you scan in a negative?" The answer was to create a copy of it, or something like that, in the layers. The reason I could not answer this question was because when I work on images in Photoshop, I have always done it a different way, I always have a copy of the original somewhere on my laptop, or I after I finish working on the image, I always 'save as' it as something else, and never as the original.
The background was not white enough, it was grey, so I used the dodge tool to brighten the background, and then I burned the image of the subject to make it look more high contrast, because it was supposed to be a recreate an image by David Bailey.
Also, I was asked a question by Diane in class which I could not answer - the question was "what is the first thing you do when you scan in a negative?" The answer was to create a copy of it, or something like that, in the layers. The reason I could not answer this question was because when I work on images in Photoshop, I have always done it a different way, I always have a copy of the original somewhere on my laptop, or I after I finish working on the image, I always 'save as' it as something else, and never as the original.
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