Computer Experiment 4

Face Swap:

The image I will be editing in this computer experiment is from my shoot number seven, whereby I focused on pets and their owners. The photographer Sebastian Magnani was the inspiration behind this idea, as he photographs owners and pets changing faces, this highlights the saying "owners and their dogs look alike." 

Firstly, open the image you wish to use twice, this is because you need one image to cut the faces from, and another to paste them on to. After this, so to the quick selection tool and select the area of the photograph you want to swap, as shown below: 

After this, press cmd C, and then go on to the other image you have opened and press cmd V to paste the image, next use cmd T to resize the image and drag it into position holding down the shift key so the image doesn't become distorted, as shown below: 

Next, the same thing must be done for the dog, therefore on the other image, select the dogs face, and again use cmd C and cmd V to paste the dog's face onto the other image. After you have pasted the image, use cmd T to resize the image, holding down the shift key so the image doesn't become distorted. 

The overall outcome of the image is shown below:

I believe this image is interesting as it's reversing the roles of the owner and the pet, this also adds humour and irony to the image as usually the human is in control, however in this image the dog appears to be in control by holding onto the human. This humorous tone is something which I wanted to add to my shoots, in order to include more interest in my work, and also to appeal to a different type of audience. Overall, I do not think the image is perfect, as you can roughly see the outline of the two changed images, also the dogs face is slightly blurry where it was smaller on the original image; therefore if I was going to edit this properly for a shoot, I would ensure I edited each layer so that it blended efficiently with the background, to avoid any outlines being evident. 

Below is another rough edit from my shoot seven, that I have attempted in a similar way to the one above: 

Computer Experiment 3

Selective colour:

Open the image in photoshop by clicking 'file', then 'open' and selecting the image. Once the image is open then click on the 'quick selection tool' on the panel on the left hand side of the page, the tool you should select is shown below:

Once you have selected this tool then you must click on the parts of the image you want to remain in colour:

Then go to the tool bar at the top of the page and click 'select', then go to the option 'inverse', this will selected the other areas of the image, as shown below:

After this go to the menu at the bottom right of the page and click 'black and white', this will then turn the area of your image selected black and white, as shown below:

You can change the intensity of the colours with the menu that pops up (shown on the right of the above image), until you're happy with your overall image.

Final image-

This is the final outcome of the edit, overall I like the image as the colouring of the flower is bright, and eye-catching due to the luminos yellow colouring of the flower. This edit changes the meaning of the image, as the idea may be to focus on pollution as the focus within the image is on nature. If I was to create another edit I would possibly have more of the flowers within the image in colour, in order to create more focus on this area of the image, however I believe that by only having one flower in colour is beautiful in a simple manner. Also, I could have placed the viewers focus elsewhere by having other parts of the image in colour, not the flowers; for example I could have focused on the subject in the image, which would have again changed the meaning of the overall photograph. 

Computer Experiment 2

Placing images side by side:

I chose to experiment with placing images side by side, to allow direct comparisons to be made likewise to Mark Laita's images. I chose to use two images from my shoot number three for this edit.

Firstly, I opened up the two images I wanted to put together, ensuring they are both either landscape or portrait. After this I then dragged one of the bars down so that the tab became a separate window, as shown below: 

After this I clicked and dragged the separate image and placed it on to the one already in photoshop, like so:

I then clicked on the different layers and pressed 'cmd T' in order to resize the images so that when they're placed on top of one another they would be the same size. If you hold down shift whilst dragging then they will stay in a perfect rectangle. 

Once this is complete you should place the two images side-by-side, like so:

You cannot see one of the layers, therefore next I clicked 'image', then 'reveal all', this allows me to see all of the two images, like below:

This is the edit complete, you should then save your image by clicking 'file' then 'save as'.

The below is the final outcome of the image, I believe this is effective as it allows for direct comparisons between the two images, this would be effective in my shoot numbers one and three as I could place the two images, from the two different houses, next to one another in order to allow the comparisons to be made. To do this I would have to ensure all of my comparing images are the same dimensions and both either portrait or landscape. 

Computer Experiment 1

CCTV effect:

I was inspired to try and create this effect myself by James Russell cant's series of images known as 'Haringey', whereby he photographed youths both in normal images, and then he edited these images to make this appear as though the youths were on CCTV, which is often associated negatively with youths stealing and committing other crimes- this series challenged societies perceptions and beliefs. Therefore I chose to edit some of my shoot two images of my elderly neighbour smoking, to make this appear as though she too was on CCTV. 

Firstly I opened up the image I wanted to edit in photoshop, next I placed a filter over this by clicking on 'filter' at the top of the page, then selecting 'filter gallery', and then choosing the filter 'diffuse glow.'

 After this I double clicked on the background layer and made this a normal one just by clicking 'OK' ion the following pop up that came up:

After this, I then selected the elliptical tool, and drew a circle around the area of the image I wanted to highlight. 

After this was done I then inverted the selection, which then selected all of the background around my chosen area, before then clicking the backspace button on the keyboard, which deletes all of this area.

Once I was left with the cropped circle, I then went to the crop tool in order to crop around the circle, and make a smaller square around the circle. I then went to file and save as to save my image.

The image below is the overall outcome of this computer experiment: 

I like the overall grainy effect as CCTV is often not clear, therefore this is realistic to actual CCTV. I believe the meaning of this image is now changed as it now challenges societies perceptions of elderly and the youth, as usually you would expect to see youths smoking on CCTV at night, not elderly ladies. Moreover the inspiration from Russell James Cant heavily influenced, and aided me when trying to create this image. 

A few more images I tried to experiment with: