Object and Body: Conclusion and My Final Response

Objects & Bodies, Photo - Object: Initial idea

Here I present my finaly four outcomes to this project, they relate to the Object and body section. I used my photoshop skills to enhance these photos. Using the cloning, patching and selection tools I managed to successfully get rid of my models heads effectively. After performing the photoshoot, the first thing I done was duplicating the layer of the imagine so that any improvements and adjustments were not on the original photo. I zoomed into the photograph real close and started to select the head till the top of the torso. After I selected the cloning tool and made selections to the background after which I layered on top of the head. At that time, everything went messy, there was body elements sticking around and there was quite a bit of smudged pixels on the photo. Then I had to really zoom in even more closely and carefully I started to get rid of the unwanted flesh. After getting rid of the head I made adjustments with the brightness, contrasts, light levels and by using the colour balance dial I could make the skin tone of my models more realistic, otherwise my models would look more orange. Lastly using the liquify tool I tucked in the clothes, I poked the logos to make them bigger (they stand out way more now) and used the lighten tool to enhance the white shades to be more vibrant. 

I choosen their outfits perfectly so that they contrast by colour, style and pattern. One is more elegant and luxury while the other is more urban and street. Being influenced By Flora Borsi, allowed me to look at a photograph differntly and actualy question it, Should I do heavy re touching?, would it be tacky? and I thought that it is going to be a challenge but atleast I will know that I given my best to it.

I have traveled to soutbank, that was the most convinient place for us three to travel to. As soon as we met I explained to them that I will be scouting for simple backgrounds and keeping it steady as I didnt want the day to go anf for the sky to turn dark. I needed natural lighting as I was not shooting in a studio.

Here I present two models wearing differnt outfits, one is wearing a burberry themed, high end clothes where as the model on the left wears a street/ tactical theme. The audience can focus more on the clothes themselves now raher than also wasting time on looking at the model. Using the liquify tool, I enlarged the ring on the right, to make it more recognisable.
Here I display another example of showing the garments without their heads. I tried to guide my models so that they dont stand there akwardly but told them to do a pose. By having his leg poking up it shows off the shoes he is wearing more as there is more attention to them than the shoes on the left.
This shot is one of my favourite, The missing head really suits this imagine becasue of the bucket hat floating in the air. I wanted to include an obect in this shot and therefore I told my model to hold his scarf and whip it around to make my shot more vivid witht he bright orange colour as his clothes were a little monotoned.
Finishing with this shot is effective because of the pose, this model is a dancer and I wanted him to do numerous styles of poses and this stance did really stand out to me. The moncler jacket worked well in this shot as it made my post production east as there was no hard features I had to go around, however cloning the wall was a challenge as The middle crossing line was hard to clone, I had to really go tot detail to make it as realistic as I could.

To conclude I do really like the relation and connection all my outcomes have together. I had a lot of photos( around 800) and I had to come to the top three and select them. I did do self critiscm and managed to allow myself some time to look at each photograph I selected to check in detail for any blury shots, any wrong postions, or for the right lighting. When I decided onto my top three, I needed another photo to go with the series. I had to have two photos of both model and then one of each.

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