I was happy with this image as I thought it included leading lines with the path heading in a forward direction and it also looked slightly freaky with the effect of the autumn role with the shattered leaves on the floor and the mixture of different colored leaves on the trees. The only think I wasn't happy with was the lighting in a way as I wanted this to look dark. This wasn't my plan as I went and took this image in the day time using nothing but natural lighting. I then thought I would just edit the contrast and brightness of the image on photo shop later on when it came to editing the images.
I then went home and took a picture of a pair of sunglasses from the front view and yet again using the effect of natural lighting. I used the idea of what Mark had told me to do previously in lessons and make a seamless background so it is easier to edit/crop on photo shop.
I was happy with this image as it the natural lighting was good and you can see a lot of detail within the image of the sunglasses and you could easily see the lenses in the shot. This took me around 5 shots to get this image as the detail on everyone wasn't as good as this one. This was just a simple image and was perfect for what I needed to do as I wanted a clear shot of the front of the glasses.
For the idea of what I had I didn't really research anything so I didn't have any inspiration from that. However I was messing around previously in a tutorial lesson and I had been on YouTube watching a tutorial for photo shop and it basically shown the viewers how to merge a scenery image into an outline of an animal which has some inspiration towards my photography project. I was then in Marks lesson and I was bored and I remembered the video and I thought to mess around and attempt to put some scenery into some lenses. At this point I had roughly taken images for the project but when I looked at what I had created on photo shop just messing around I got inspiration to use it for the project. It came in handy as it would help me with my evaluation as for the first image I didn't really know what I could write about as Mark had helped me and gave me instructions on what to do last minute and I didn't really understand so I decided to change my image. This was what I had took previously using the ghostly effect with something to do with the shutter speed. I did like this image but I just couldn't think of what to write about in the evaluation.
After taking the images I went and merged the two of my images together to get it looking like what I had created before and this was my outcome.
I had edited the scenery image into the lenses like I was wanting to do. I had to use the lasso tool and quick selection tool to crop out the sunglasses from a front view and then use the same tools to select the lenses and then delete them from the image so you could see the forest through them. Making it look like in the reflection of the glasses was the forest. I had edited the forest images brightness and contrasts to make the image look darker and freakier than the original which you can clearly see on the left lens with the change of brightness. I then had to erase all of the rest of the image so that all you can see is the forest in the lenses and not surrounding the glasses.
I feel happy with the outcome although if I was to do it again I would have tried to find a way to make the bottom of the sunglasses look less blodgy so that you cant tell the sunglasses was ever cut out because you can see that I have cropped it as there is little chunks missing from the glasses. In order to take the action to improve I would research more ways to crop efficiently or any ways to crop more efficiently. I also would have taken both images with a better camera as I had to take them on my I phone so the quality could have been better with the images but they do look decent and they aren't too bad and wasn't a big issue. As I said I am happy with the outcome apart from the problems mentioned as side and I know what I could have done to improve further.
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