What I Think when I Compose the Elements in my shots!
When I am taking photos, I determine all of the factors in which I need to take into consideration in order to make a picture relevant to what I'm trying to portray. I learned through trial and improvement that the better the picture you take the less time it will take to edit it. when I take pictures I look at things such as the lines, texture, pattern, colour, surface or the shape of the subject. The composition of my work is very important to me. The design and structure needs to make sense, I do this by using the light or negative space to my advantage to add depth or perspective to my pictures. I also acknowledge and utilise techniques such as focusing on repeating lines, irregular shapes, symmetry, tones and the contrast or pallet of the colours in the picture. I believe a photo needs to portray an emotion/feeling or invoke thought to the viewer to truly catch their attention.
Editing Pictures on Lightroom
↑Here is the un-edited picture.
↑Here I adjusted both the exposure and contrast of the photo to add depth and contrast from the light and dark parts.
↑Here I have up'd the highlights and shadows of the flower to make it pop out.
↑In this picture I adjusted the luminance, detailing, and the amount of sharpening to add a detail and softness the the flower.
↑This is the un-edited picture.
↑Here I have adjusted the amount of sharpening in the picture, focusing on the detail masking and radius of sharpening. This is to add harshness to the picture, adding good texture of the surface on the flower.
↑Here I have adjusted the exposure and contrast of the photo, adding depth and contrast the the texture of surface on the flower.
↑Here I adjusted the highlights, shadows, clarity and the whites/blacks in the picture. This emphasises the lines, pattern and edges in the picture making it pop out more.
↑In this picture I did final check over to soften the picture over all to dim the harshness as I thought I was a bit much.
Double Exposure
↑This is the un-edited picture on photoshop
↑This is me adjusting the contrast and brightness of the picture to make the lines more silhouette sharp and the pop out more.
↑Here is the picture I have to merge I with.
↑ Here is me putting the picture a layer above the Picture i want to merge it with. After I Changed It to screen which put it over the fist picture.
↑ Here is the finished product
↑ This is the un-edited picture uploaded on photoshop
↑This is me adjusting the contrast and brightness of the picture to make the lines more silhouette sharp and the pop out more.
↑This is the picture I want to merge it with.
↑This is that Picture re-sized, moved and merged with the silhouette.
↑This is the final product.