Tuesday, 7 May 2013

Toning and Colouring/Duo-Tone

Different colours and tones can help to instil images with subtle moods and can be used for expressive purposes. Toning has been used by photographers for a long time and can now be emulated in digital photography using software such as PhotoShop. Below are two images I toned copper and blue:




A duo tone is an image that is made up of just two colours and typically these colours are black and a spot colour. The Modes on PhotoShop allow the photographer to create one-colour (monotone), two-colour (duotone), three-colour and four-colour (quadtone) images. Below is my experimentation with Selenium Duo Tone:




Thursday, 2 May 2013

Fashion Photography Workshop

For this workshop, Fashion photographer Talia White came into college and gave a presentation featuring her own work, different lighting situations and tips for fashion photography and locations including preparation and code of conduct for this genre. She then took us out on location to photograph her model Ashleigh Holder and we were allocated 15 minutes of shoot time. I edited the below photographs using PhotoShop CS6 and Silver Efex Pro 2.