Exercise;
Strength of interpretation
This exercise is to experiment with the removal of colour and tonal range, I have to choose two images that would best suit the following adjustments;-
·
A strong increase in contrast that will include
clipping (loss of detail) in at least the shadow areas
·
Low or high key treatment in which the entire
brightness range is shifted down or up the scale
I have to create these effects in colour and black and
white, to be able to recognise how each colour would appear, whether light or
mid-tone or dark.
This is my original image, I have not edited this in any way, I think it’s a good image to use as I can lose the detail in the shadow areas in the water.
I feel this is a really dramatic effect, a very dark and
light one, as the key notes suggest, I used a strong S curve, although I had
not pronounced the light areas as much, as the image already had a very strong
white element to it, I knew the image would end up like this, as I use my
curves all the time, whether it to make an image “Pop” or to drastically change
it.
2nd Black and
white-low or high key treatment
For this image, I first used my levels and brought down
the mid-tones and moved the highlights to the left to gain a high key treatment
but to make it look like a low dynamic image. After that, I used the curves to
make it a lot less dynamic, I think I prefer the dramatic image in the black
and white.
1st
Colour-strong increase in contrast
I did the same in this image as I did in the first black
and white image. As the notes suggest, this does not work as well in colour as
it did in the black and white, it’s so over exaggerated, it looks fake and
unnatural.
Again, I used the same procedure as with the black and
white images by using the curves and levels.
I actually like this image, although, I do actually prefer the original.
I like the colour in the water, the sky is a bit ‘off’ and some of the detail
is lost in the building due to the overexposure when lightening the image.
2nd image -
Original
This is the original image, I chose it because there is a
bit of detail in the branch and I knew that I could lose the detail when
editing, but also gain it back, as before, I have not edited this image in any
way.
I really like this adjustment, as with the previous set of images, I used exactly the same components for all of the following four pictures.
As previously mentioned, I knew the detail of the branch
would be lost and the ground and rocks in the background would be accentuated.
I never thought I would, but I like this image. I think the detail is good and there is a sort of tonal difference in the branch, almost a slight hue of metallic to it.
Again, as the notes suggest, the colour version looks extreme,
but I think this photo works better than the photo in the first set, I really
love the way the background colours come to life and are very pronounced.
2nd Colour-low or high key treatment
This high/low key treated image is good, but by losing the blue in the image, it loses the mountains in the background, the branch does look goo though, maybe if I were to process this image, I would splice the two together to get the look I want to achieve.
All in all, this exercise was very helpful in the strength of the tonal ranges and understanding them, by using my curves and levels, I rarely experiment with the mid-tones and will do so now more often so to achieve an exciting new look.
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