Hannah Washbourne
My Response to lopez's work
My Response Plan
To respond to Lopez's work I will use their editing techniques and ideas and incorporate them into portrait photographs of people as well as the use of this for buildings.
I will need to use studio lighting in order to take the portraits.
The equipment I need will be a DSLR camera and a ring light.
I will include the compositional rules and formal elements of negative space,framing colour and shape and form as well as contrast.
Lopez's aim is to create a piece of work that inspires by whats's around us using colour.My project will focus on the idea of staying true to ourselves despite what society tells us so the reason i chose to study this artist is so that i can widen my understanding of how developing the finite details (e.g colour,shapes and text) within a piece of art can have a lot to say.
My Raw photographs
Contact sheet
13 unedited photographs
My Three Photoshop Edits
To edit my first photo I wanted to focus on Lopez's editing style and how I could develop an idea using this. As a result I chose to use an image off the internet as the base of this artist copy. I created a layer mask so I could then change the background to be a varying gradient of colours similarly to Lopez. I wanted to to
To edit this photo In Adobe Photoshop I created a mask of the subject in order to create a solid backgrounds colour. I used the object selection toll and then pressed select and mask in order to create adjustments. I then duplicated the layer and used the paintbrush tool to add my purple background.
The original version of this photo had a extremely low brightness so I cropped the photo and adjusted he brightness as well as the contrast to make the colour stand out.
