In a technical sense I would have to say that I learned the most while doing the portraits. With my self portrait, it took so long to get the lighting just right in my very dark apartment. And only after shooting about 50 shots was I able to get a clear reflection of myself TV. When I photographed my friend Jake (the climber), my flash completely blew out his hand so there was nothing but a white blob that needed to be completely reconstructed. I found the hardest thing about working on a photograph is that there are always continuous tones and any paint you put on the canvas is obviously not part of the original. This made it very hard therefore to reconstruct his hand without it looking like I had copied and pasted an image of Bart Simpson’s hand clutching the rock.
The ‘other’ photo I shot was a set-up. I told her about the project and that I’d love it if I could take her photo as my stranger pic. I’m not sure if she really got what I was talking about but she let me take the photo none-the-less. The first thing I did was crop it so that it wasn’t a full body shot. She told me that I needed to crop it so it didn’t show her belly. She hadn’t been expecting me to take the full shot and she said she would have sucked in had she known. It had been raining when I took the photo but her personality in the shot come across as very warm so I raised the color temperature up a bit.
My favorite letter-form was the Orange “J”. The pipe jumped out at me on my way to the rock gym to photograph my friend and since I had my camera with me I took a quick shot. It’s funny that those unexpected photos that have no planning or thought put into them, sometimes make you favorite shot of all. Once I got it into Photoshop I realized that it wasn’t obvious enough as a letter so I isolated it with the lasso tool and then inversed the selection and made everything else black and white. This along with some experimentation with contrast made the photo to my liking and officially complete.
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