Digital Imaging

Been a little while since I last posted, sorry about that. Things are coming on nicely with just under a month of uni left and just over 2 until the baby is born!! busy times :-).

For the most part I have been working on uni stuff including the projects you will find on my unit 110 page HERE

By far the image I am most pleased with recently though is this one

We were tasked with replicating an iconic image and I am pleased with my results so please do check out the rest of the tasks and see what you think :-)

Advertising Project

We we're given an advertising project in which we got to choose 1 of several briefs all for well known businesses but each of which had an extra consideration to take into account.
The one I chose to do was for the makeup company 'Urban Decay' but I had to somehow incorporate their lack of animal testing while keeping my design consistent with their current advertising.  
The first thing I noticed whilst researching the product was their love for the colour purple, the second was that they seem to have two strings of advertising, the first was to show their products and the second to show models wearing it. I decided to go along the model rout as although my photography is based a lot in portraiture I have little experience with fashion so I thought this would be not only good practice but a bit of fun as well
I also noticed that most of their advertising has extreme landscape cropping so trying to include this, some sort of purple and to show the bright colours that their eyeshadows come in this is what I have come up with so far, this is a very rough idea and by no means the finished piece but here's to hoping i'm on the right track!

new advertisement for urban decay.

Flowers

I decided to do a little playing with some photos I took of flowers. I wanted to have some fun and be a little more artistic and here are the results :-)

Here I cropped the photo, changed the levels and changed the hue slightly to make it seem as though the flower was in a spotlight.

 In this one I changed the levels on the colours almost completely eliminating any red from the photo to create an almost x-ray like image. I like this one particularly as originally the flowers behind the white one were all red or pink. I enjoy taking photos and changing them completely and seeing the difference.

 For this one I wanted to try something a bit different, I have always wanted to be able to paint. My sister is an amazing artist and if i could draw to the standard of her "crappy doodles" I would be happy but alas that skill is not mine. It does amuse me that she struggles to use a camera set on auto so I guess we all have our strong points :-).
Anyway while browsing photoshops filters I have discovered that I can now apparently turn my photos into lovely paintings, I believe this to be some what of a cheat but not one that I am going to argue with!
This is a photo I took many years ago but thought it looked absolutely beautiful as a watercolour painting.