Experiments • Finals

I took the final images for my series of photographs today and I think they turned out fabulous (not to blow my own trumpet or anything!). I took these in a RAW format and opened them in Photoshop, I then changed the exposure up because I originally shot them dark to retain detail outside the window, I then brought the whites down to bring the outside back into detail and highlights down to 0. I then changed the clarity to +29 because I like my photographs to have a sharp feel to them, it's my signature style, and then I added +16 of contrast.

I then used the content aware tool to fill in where the box and photo frame was above the chair, as seen in my previous post. As I was using a newly updated version of Photoshop, I did not have to use the healing brush tool as much, as the content aware tool covered them up perfectly. I then copied the newly edited section onto each image, as they were all identical apart from the minor changes. I then changed the colour balance, as the light changed in the room, causing the light to go from a cold blue to a warm gold as the sun set (see the section"improvements" for more details on this)

I cropped the entire photograph down to get rid of the television in the far right hand side as well as the start of the dining table on the left hand side. I wanted the chair and the table with the vase to be the main viewpoint of the photograph so changed the composition to suit this. The crop was in the size 5299 pixels by 3420 pixels at 300ppi.

Improvements

Upon looking back at my captured images, I realise there were a few features that could have been improved. I could have shot at a different time of day, as I shot at 6pm when the sun was setting, so the light changed a lot during the half an hour I was shooting. I fixed this to a high standard in Photoshop by using the colour balance tool, but it would have been less time consuming if I had of thought of that prior to shooting.

I also realised that upon removing the petals after each shot, the position of the flowers changed, which takes away from the person noticing the slight change. However, I think if someone was looking at this in a gallery exhibition they would not be able to notice the slight movement in the flowers, and they would notice the slight movement as a element within the photographic change too.