Personal shoot 3- Work diary

Studio set up-
For this shoot I used a black backdrop because I was using colour gels therefore I wanted the colour to stand out and not be washed out, which would possibly happen with a lighter backdrop. Overall, there was three lights being used for this shoot. Two of the lights had a honeycomb grid on to direct the lighting and onto of them I taped the colour gels to create the colour. The first of the two lights was placed slightly behind the model and the second was placed on the other side a little more forward than the other. The third light was placed in front of the model and had a light box on.


Camera set up-
For this shoot I had my Exposure set at 1/125 seconds. I also set the ISO to 200 and to F8. This allowed for the lens to capture more of the colour lighting.



Photoshop-

 Firstly I started by changing the levels on this image. I wanted the right balance of light and dark in the images so that it would look even better when enhancing the colours. I only slightly changed the levels as dramatically changing it would not have looked as good.

 I then pressed the curves button and adjusted the curves setting so that the colour, mostly in the hair, became a little bit more noticeable. The adjustment with the curves is very slight however paired with everything else will help bring the beauty into this image.

Next, I changed the vibrancy to +30 and the saturation to +3. This is very noticeable in the image as you can see that the light coming in from the corner has become brighter and creeps further into the photo, also the lighting in the hair is more solid.

 On the colour balance button I changed the colour levels. With the cyan and red I enhanced it more towards the red at +23 this is because I had used a red colour gel with the lighting. I then changed the magenta and green to -22 which enhanced the magenta in the image and for the yellow and blue I kept it at 0 because the balance in the image between the two images where perfect as normal.

 I once more adjusted the curves setting to make sure the balance was right with the light in the image.

 As my theme for my project is beauty I felt that hiding skin blemishes and enhancing specific aspect of the image would bring more beauty into the photo. Therefore I used the spot healing brush tool to hide any blemishes or spots that my model had. With the brush I changed the size to 20px, hardness to 100%, spacing to 25% and the roundness to100%. These measurements allowed me to successfully cover the problem spaces and keep the photo looking natural.

I then wanted her skin to look flawless as in most magazines and beauty shoot the models skin looks smooth and perfect. To do this is went on the filter tab at the top of Photoshop, selected blur then selected surface blur. The little box would then appear where I could change the radius to 5px and the threshold level to 10. This really helped to smooth over her skin, although I feel that in this image it over softened and blurred the image. Because of that I changed the measurements in my other photos so that it looked a lot more natural.