Adding paint to photographs.

To make this picture we had to take a portrait photograph and then put it in to photoshop and make it black and white. From there we could print it off and add paint over the top on the areas that were pale and  leave the areas that were black. 

I don't really like how my image has turned out and if I were to do this again then I would have taken a better picture of a model that had more lighter areas that I could have painted on so as to add more variation to the photograph. I would have also used different backgrounds with different textures so as the model would stand out more. 

Frozen In Time Berlin by Lars Brandt Stisen

     Frozen in Time Berlin is a series of 3D photographs capturing the people and sights of Berlin in multi-layered photos that makes parts of each layer stand out more than the background. These images are created with a specialist camera that Lars custom made himself using parts of other film cameras produced between 1968 and 1988 and gives the photographs deeper historical meaning as well as the photograph itself. Stisen was born in Denmark and is now based in central Berlin after studying at Aros Art School in Denmark. He now specialises in advertising, fashion and editorial photography. Before photography, Stisen went through jobs such as product design and engineering, freelance software development, musician and stage producer but ultimately ended up persuing photography as a career.
    The 3D pictures have been put in to a specialised gallery and classic Red and Cyan 3D glasses must be worn to get the full effect of the photograph with all of the layers.
    I like these images as they are very well exposed on film and the multiple layers to make certain parts of the image pop out of the background further.

Research - Paul Harries.

     Paul Harries is an Essex born music photographer that has worked for popular rock music magazine Kerrang! for 20 years and has one of the most extensive portfolios of rock icons including Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne, nine piece band Slipknot and Guns n Roses guitarist Slash.
     Growing up in the 80's, Harries spent his nights hanging around the Marquee on Wardour Street photographing the bands such as Fields Of the Nephilim that had been playing there that night. Eventually he gave up his 9 to 5 job to persue his career in photography that has grew to be one of the largest and most famous photographers among the rock world.
     Harriers has a professional set of studio equipment that includes a 21 Megapixel Canon 5D MKII, a Canon 24mm-70mm and 16mm-35mm lens as well as Bowens lighting and soft boxes.
     I chose to research Harries as he has great experience with music photography and that is what I want to experiment with by trying to reproduce the MTV Unplugged album cover that has a person playing an acoustic guitar against a dark background and lights illuminating certain areas. Looking at Harries work has given me ideas on lighting and location which is what I was looking for.

Harries location shoot with Guns n Roses guitarist Slash. 

Corey Taylor of Slipknot photographed on location.

Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne in Harries studio photoshoot.

Ideas For the Final Image.

I have got two ideas for my final piece, one is still life and the other a portrait. Both images will recreate a piece of Album Artwork, one from Lady Gaga and the other from MTV. I will try out both of the ideas and choose the image that looks the best and recreates the artwork closest.

This is the portrait image that I want to recreate as the make-up can be done on the model and the hair colour changed before using a selective black and white layer.

This is the still life photograph that will need specific lighting and backgrounds to reproduce as close as possible but will need the colours altering in photoshop afterwards so as to give it the sepia tone.

This is the text that we are going to add the 3D effect to.

After typing it out and flattening the text, we duplicate the layer so as we can edit them both and change the Levels.

We go on to 'Image', 'Adjustments' and 'Levels'  where we can change the colours of the image layers.

The top layer is changed to Red and the Output Levels to 0

The background of the top layer is now a different colour and we need to change the colour of the back layer.

When the other layer is selected, go back on the Levels box and set the Channel to green and the Output level to 0

These are the colours of the layers.

With the top layer selected, choose 'Screen' out of the Layers tab.

When the top layer has been moved down and right slightly this is the effect you get with the text and it appears to be jumping out at us.  

Black and White 3D Image.

This is the original image that we will be turning in to black and white and then 3D.

To make the image black and white first, we selected 'Image', 'Adjustments' and then 'Desaturate'. 

This is the black and white image that we will now work with to make it 3D.

We make another identical layer to the other one and layer them on top of each other. 

To get the Levels up so as we can change the colour we go 'Image', 'Adjustments' and 'Levels' 

We can then change the Channel to Red and the Output Level to 0 and apply that to the image.

The same is done to the bottom layer apart from the Channel is Green and the Output Level is still 0, then apply that to the image.

We then select the top later and choose 'Screen' on the Layers tab.

We choose the move tool so as we can move the layer down and right to produce the 3D image.

This is the final image when the layers are moved and will make the feather stand out as 3D. 

3D Colour Image.

This is the original image that we are going to make in to a 3D image. 

The layer  needs to be duplicated first so as we have two identical images layered on top of each other but on separate layers. We select the 'Background Copy' layer.

Then we need to change the levels by going in to 'Image', 'Adjustments' and 'Levels' 

We change the channel to 'Red'

And the right 'Output Level' to 0

This is the top layer which has had the colour altered on it.

We then need to change the Levels on the other layer of the image.

We go on 'Image', 'Adjustments' and 'Levels' again to alter it.

This time we change the green level.

And set the right 'Output Level' to 0

These are the colours of the layers now that the Levels have been altered.

Changing the Layer setting to Screen makes the image look relatively normal again.

This is the image when the Screen Layer effect is applied to both of the layers.

Then we need to move the images apart slightly and this can be done by selecting the 'Move' tool and moving the top layer image down and to the right slightly.

This is the final 3D image that is produced and you can see that the two colours of the images are slightly apart from each other.