Photo Manipulation

Assignment 1 - Photo Manipulation Assignment

             

       Original Images were taken by me to convey different types of lighting techniques in photography. The Image on the left (Bear_Vio_Original) was taken using incandescent lighting. The image on the right (Tiger_Yel_Original) was taken using natural light or window light.

Changes to Both Images

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- Creator, City, State, Country, Email and Date Created

Using Adobe Photo Shop I rotated the images so that the composition is upright in portrait format.

I then cropped and colour correction of the images.

Next I changed the resolution of the images form 72 pixels per inch, (default by the camera used) to 300 pixels per inch this was done for better the quality prints.; However the version on my blog is only 150dpi and low quality of the final images so that they could be appropriate for the web. 

Next I added a sharpen filter to bring out the detail and reduce blur in areas that are not needed.

Finally I blurred the backgrounds so that the subjects /Stuffed Animals.   Could be lifted off of it or stand out from the background.

Incandescent (Bear_Vio_Colour_LowRes) - Final

Noticing that there was too much light, which was creating poor shadows, I adjusted the image's levels of black and whites until it looked more balanced. I then reduced the brightness and contrast to make the subject (The Bear) stand out even more. To help reduce the artificial light brightness, I brought down the exposure of the image.

Natural/ Window light (Tiger_Yel_Colour_LowRes)  - Final

The photograph was a good example of rembrandt lighting using the window light as that one source of light, so there was little to edit, when taking a realistic approach. How ever I did increase the  blacks of the image just a little to raise the quality of the shadow.

Further editing of both images

After viewing Robert Capa's amazing capturing of realistic images, I decided to further edit my photographs and bring them to greyscale. 

Next I added a lens correction filter, to help reduce the camera blur because it wasn't on a tripod when I took the photographs. Also with the lens correction I decreased the vignette so  that the corners of the image would be darker than the subject, this would place more emphasis on directing the eyes of the viewer to the subject in the photograph.

DB3: The Reproduction of Art

Questions

When something is reproduced for so many times is that art? What's the importance of the mechanical reproducibility of the art? What was the impact on mechanical reproducibility on the society?

- Is photography art, a contribution to the art? Is it just a tool used by artists?

- How and why Henry Pitch Robinson created Fading Away? What was the reason?

- Photography has impacted the world of art and influenced some changes in the area of accessibility to art. If mechanical reproduction created revolution, what is happening now with the digitalization?

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Answers

Something as delicate as art loses some of its sentimental quality in the sense that its authenticity may only have it recognized as mere copy. However, regardless of art being reproduced many times it is still art.

The importance of mechanical reproducibility of the art is to protect the original work of art, or to widen the views or viewers of the art by spreading the copies to different museums or locations.

Mechanical reproducibility's impact on society wasn't a single one. In the art and design industry, as well as the deep admires of art the original work of art, could have had the perception that the only version of art worth seeing, is that of the original and a copy cannot capture the true essence of the emotional being conveyed by it. In the present day the number of persons in society whom share this view has decreased dramatically, as the capability of reproducibility of art as increased due to printers and internet. In another view, it would be a pleasure to have a copy of a work of art that no common man/woman would be able to obtain and even decorate their home.

Photography art is both a contribution and a tool to the art; Why? as time goes by, techniques and technology improve, thus such is the birth of innovative or new forms of art. In my view, it is an idea that photography art is a tool which contributes to the improvement of photography.

In 1858 Henry Pitch Robinson created Fading Away by the use of a dark room and the rembrandt lighting technique using that one window as a light source to convey a deep emotion between the viewing and their own perception of the relationships of the charters in the scene. The focus in this composition is the tall dark figure at the window with his back towards the young woman laying on the bellow in the direct sunlight. 

Digitalization of art is expanding the first footsteps of photography. Globalization is the main focus in this modern society, as the means for communication improves the means for communicating art improves as well. Though there are copyright laws created to help protect art digitalization, has played a major role in the sharing of art in all forms generally in present society that art is meant to be experienced by anyone. 

Introduction

Greetings,
         My name is Cecil James; I am a current G109(Game Development) student and I am found of photography. I have taken photography courses before In G108(Art & Design Foundation) in 2010 - 2011 and enjoyed it.

This is  just one of my photographs.

2011 Photography - for NuYu International

Thank You

Cecil James