Week 6- Editing and Taking More Photos

  First, I started to edit the photos that I had taken from last week and see how they would turn out.  So here I'm going to show you how I got to editing these.

Before:

  So for this picture I aim at having the graffiti and fence in the background to have a nice effect. I think what makes this photo good is how your eye strays immediately to the doll on the left. Of course the rule of thirds has to do with this, but I think it was worth mentioning.

After:

  As you can tell I turned the photo black and white except for the doll. I think this makes the doll stand out and that's what I was aiming for. I used history brush to put the colour back on the doll. History brush is by far one of my favourite tool to use on photoshop. Even though I've recently learned about I can use it I now used it on almost all my final photos because I think that some colours and figures need to stand out in black and white and I pick those specific colours or figures to use the tool on and a new effect to my photo.
  Let me now show one more example on another final photo that I will use in my project.

    Unfortunately for this photo I don't seem to find the original version, so I will explain the one only difference. I have yet again used the black and white and history brush technique. Although this time I have used the history brush on the background, not the doll. As you see I have kept the doll and hand in white and black. The main reason for that is because the background has such a nice colour scheme and it would've been a shame to keep it in black and white, so I decided to use the black and white on the hand and the doll. I am thinking though that it may have been a mistake to put the doll and hand in black and white since now they don't stand out to me as much, so I'm going to keep in consideration to maybe change the picture and just add a bit of contrast and levels instead.
  After all the editing I went out to take a few photos and also help another classmate with some of his photos. So after the photo taking this day was done. I'm going to put some of the photos we took on this blog. They are all un-edited and will show the edited versions next week.
  Next week I'm hoping to start on my mounting piece and my final project. I also will get around to printing some of my photos to go on the mount. So next week is also a big day.