Week 11 - Portraits

This week I would like you to take some portrait shots and post at least one to your blog. When you post please let us know the difficulties you ran into with this assignment and how you solved them.

I have been doing portraiture all along, but I wanted to post my most recently-edited photo from a shoot I did with Marissa. My friend Dylon of Intensity Photography allowed me to use his studio setup and work with him as Marissa modeled. I updated a photo from this before, but this is my favorite shot of the night:

This was my first time working in a studio setting and I had to do a lot of tweaking to make sure I was keeping my subject within the confines of the backdrop and pointed towards the best light source. I was also in a narrow living room so it was hard for me to get the angles I wanted on Marissa. I was getting in to some very awkward positions to add some depth to my extremes. I did end up actually working more with Marissa to position her where I could get a better angle. I would ask her to scootch one way or turn another and once I started doing that it helped a lot.

This weekend I intend to model for some shots that I am setting up for a costume I created, so I may some out with some more photos come Monday. We'll see!

Week 10 - Cloning & Patching & Text, Oh My!

Here is a link to a clone stamp and patch tool tutorial. You will be fixing one photo this week with these tools (you may use either or both) this week and posting it to your blog. Let us know what you did and post the before and after shots. Also post two photos that you have added text or painted over.

So I apologize (yet again) for the late update, I decided on a pretty major project this week and then spent the entire weekend at a convention O.o.

My goal this week was to combine aspects of two photos using the clone and patch tools. I also found this tutorial while doing research for my paper and the artist uses clone/patch for most of his skin-based retouching. I decided to try that on all photos, after trying the blur/layer method I posted before.

My goal with these first pictures was to take my eyes from the half-face image and layer them over the first image (where I am looking directly at the camera), but I would need to make a number of small adjustments to chance the proportions and the like to make it seem natural. The angles are similar without being exactly the same. I used the clone and patch tools to clean up my skin, as well as smooth out the whites of my eyes and reshape my face sightly.

Originals:

Edits:

This photoshoot was intended to be used as stock images for my website - the hairpieces you see me wearing in these I hand-make and sell. I am in process of creating a website to sell them through and needed good images of the items. So I took one of the above edited photos and added in text to make it more of a header-type image for the site: