Ghizlaine Kamir
My Response to lindsay adler's work
My Response Plan
To respond to the work of Lindsay Adler, I intend to take and edit photos in Photoshop.
My work will link to my artist because I will also use coloured gels and studio lighting.
I will need specific people to model, and in some pictures them wearing statement jewellery. I will do my pictures like this because my photographer uses women and accessories in her photographs.
The equipment I need will be DSLR camera, a ring light and coloured gels. I will require these apparatus because my artist uses them to achieve the lighting effect.
I will need to take my pictures in the studio booth and have a plain black backdrop.
I will include the compositional rules and formal elements of contrast and colour/tone.
This will link to my theme of home by associating with the idea of identity as it depicts various people expressing themselves and their mood through colours.
My Raw photographs ; Contact Sheet
10 unedited photographs
My Three Photoshop Edits
To edit my photo of my model, I opened it in Adobe Photoshop and used the Clone Stamp tool to blend the background where there was something I did not want in the image. I then adjusted the brightness and contrast in order to bring more radiance to the image. I then added a second layer and used the paint brush tool with the Colour Dodge setting and lowered the opacity to achieve a more coloured image. I set the colour picker to a navy blue and vibrant red to replicate the way my artist took her own photograph and to emphasise the vibrancy of the coloured gels.
To edit the second photo I opened it in Adobe Photoshop and adjusted the contrast and brightness to darken the image slightly. I then used the Colour Dodge tool to add green highlights to my model's hair to replicate the effect of the green coloured gels. I then added a second layer and altered the Curves of the image to darken it, however I did not approve of this change and instead I used the brush tool to create a faux shadow. I then lowered the opacity of the dark layer added to make the shadow effect on my model's face. Then, in order to make the photo more realistic, I used the Colour Dodge tool and the eyedropper to match my model's eye colour to eliminate the ring light reflection.
For the final photo, I opened it in Adobe Photoshop and cropped the image to eliminate the negative space surrounding my model. I then used the Paint Brush tool to create the illusion of a green shadow across my model's face on a separate layer. Next, I lowered the opacity of this layer to further create the illusion. I then repeated these procedures with the yellow on the other half of my model's face. Then, I adjusted the brightness to create a more mellow atmosphere in the image.
The most successful edit in my opinion was the second image, this is because I had to do numerous edits to achieve my desired outcome and replicate my artist. This also links to my theme of Home; Identity because it demonstrates the varied emotions and auras being carried out by the colours being reflected.
