Eldon Kika
My Response to alberto seveso's work
My Response Plan
To respond to the work of Alberto Seveso, I intend to take and edit photos in Photoshop.
My work will link to my artist because I will also take images of different coloured paints mixing together.
I will need different, bright-coloured paints, a clear water box and a box light. I have chosen these because Alberto takes pictures of different colours of paint mixing together so I will need a box to fill with water- the ink will go in this. I will also need a plain background so I will use a thick piece of plain white paper so that my camera is able to focus on the ink.
The equipment I need will be DSLR Camera to get close up by zooming in and to change the camera setting like the shutter speed and ISO setting. I will use Studio Lighting so that picture is well lit.
I will include the compositional rules of contrast Between Subject and Background and the Formal Elements of Negative Space, Focus, Texture, Colour.
This will link to my theme of strange and fantastical as the different ways the the two colours fuse together makes the image very unique and captivating, gathering the viewer's attention.
My Raw photographs;
Contact Sheet
My Three Photoshop Edits
To edit my first photo, I opened it in Adobe Photoshop and I cropped it so that the focal point of the work was the coloured ink and so that I didn't have as much negative space. I then increased the saturation and vibrance to bring out the coloured paint, an in the style of my photographer. I increased the brightness and contrast of the image as well to replicate it being taken with a flash as the photographer does, making it look less dull. I increased the hue, vibrance and saturation of the image and slightly increased the blue and green colour balances of the image to reinforce the strength of colours. I then used the select and mask tool to remove the background, and I added a layer underneath to subject and pasted an image of black behind, to contrast the bright colours.
To edit the second photo, I opened it in Adobe Photoshop and I rotated the image to centralise the ink and then selected and masked the subject and removed the background. I then increased the brightness and contrast of the image, then the vibrance and saturation to enhance the colours and their brightness. I then created a new layer underneath the subject and copy and pasted an image of a warm, calm nude/cream colour to contrast the bright orange and hints of pinks, as Seveso usually does.
For the third photo, I opened it in Adobe Photoshop and I increased the vibrance and saturation, then increase the colour balances to enhance and deepen the blue and green colours, then also reduce the channel mixers of the blue and green to do the same. I also increased the brightness and contrast to strengthen the shades. I select the ink using the object selection tool to remove the background and cropped the image, then I created a new layer underneath the subject and added a soft cream colour to calm the image, and contrast the blue and green.
I think the third photo is most successful as it portrays my theme well, through the shape of the ink and the colours mixing in with each other, in a peculiar and fantastic way. They compliment each other well and merge together to form a distinctive image with radiant colours as the subject, but a gentle background, calming the image.
