Week #6 — Portraits and Portrait Enhancements
This week we were to take portrait shots and enhance them in Photoshop. I have never taken portrait shots before so this was a very new experience for me. I really like the 3 bannack shots and could not decide which one to use of Jared so I put 2 up. I enhanced the color of teeth, blemishes on faces, and the colors of the environments in which the shots were taken.
With the shots I took at Bannack, the wall was a very beautiful color and didn’t show up in the shots so I tweaked it a little. I also mixed 2 shots together of Jared. I had used spot metering and one shot was darker but had more detail, and one was brighter had had more of the original color. I copied one onto the top of the other and then loved the image around so they matched up.I then changed the opacity and some of the levels, and I loved the outcome. It seems a lot more realistic now.
With the river shot, I loved enhancing the green in the plants because, again, the color was just not as real with the camera. I had a lot of fun trying out portraits! Hope you like them!
1. Jared: May 15, 2009 12:50 p.m Bannack, MT; f/2.7; Sony DSC-H7
2. Bryce: May 9, 2009 12:25 p.m. Heise, ID; f/7.1; Sony Cybershot
3. Jared 2: May 15, 2009 12:48 p.m Bannack, MT; f/2.7; Sony DSC-H7
4. Jamie: May 15, 2009 12:46 p.m Bannack, MT; f/3.2; Sony DSC-H7
all of these shots are great! i am not just saying this because i am in them. they were well composed. The lighting works well for your shots