For this assignment, I have stuck to my chosen flower theme. This way, I find that everything ties in quite nicely. I have also used a few other images of photographs that I have previously taken to use as by main background image.
I used a Nikon D90, a full battery and sufficient memory card room.
I have to manipulate 4 images and display them with the unmodified images.
Software used for all images:- Photoshop Elements 9.
Bath
Taken with Nikon 18-105mm Lens
F5.6, ISO 2000, Exposure 1/30 Sec
Taken with Tamron 90mm Macro Lens & Tripod
F5.6, ISO 200, Exposure 1/3 Sec
Taken with Tamron 90mm Macro Lens & Tripod
F5.6, ISO 200, Exposure 1/20
Finished Image
For the flowers in the bath image I started with the bath image as my background. I clicked Enhance then Lightening-Lighten Shadows and set that at 46%. I also set the Brightness to 32 and the Contrast to 44.
For the flowers, I used the Magnetic Lasso Tool and cut around the flowers to be used. I then clicked on Enhance, Adjust Lighting, Lighten Shadows 34%. The flower was then dragged onto the main picture. I then clicked on Image, then Resize, then Scale to shrink it down. It was then placed in the required place and then further flowers were shrunk in the same way.
I quite like the image but upon seeing the images printed out, I could've lightened the small flowers a little more maybe. Marie told me to lighten the bath a little, which I did, and I like the result.
Sea
Taken with Nikon 18-105mm Lens
F5.6, ISO200, Exposure 1/125 Sec
Taken With Tamron 90mm Macro Lens
F5, ISO 200, Exposure 1/15 Sec
Taken with Tamron 90mm Macro Lens
F5, ISO 200, Exposure 1/2 Sec
Finished Image
For this image, I used the back ground from the sea at West Runton, near Cromer. I changed the settings a little to, Enhance, Brightness 20 and Lighten Shadows 25%. I used the Magnetic Lasso Tool to go around the images of the flowers and then they were dragged onto the image and then shrunk down, as previously explained. With the pink flower, I changed the Brightness to 27 and the white flowers were changed to Brightness 14. The 2 flowers at the end of the pier had their colour removed.
I really like this image as I love photographs of the sea, especially when it starts to get rough. I also like the way how the pink flower fits onto the pole with the seagull on top.
Tree
Taken With Nikon 18-105 mm Lens
F13, ISO 200, Exposure 1/125 Sec
Taken with Tamron 90 mm Macro Lens
F5, ISO 200, Exposure 1/13 Sec
Finished Image
For this image I used a dead tree which I photographed one Winters' morning before Christmas in Bradgate Park, Leicestershire as my background. I didn't alter anything about it as the sun was shining and I thought that the brightness and colours didn't need tweaking. I went around my flower image with the Magnetic Lasso Tool and then altered the Brightness to 53 and the Contrast to 23. The flower was then dragged onto the tree trunk and the size was altered as explained previously.
I really liked the look of the tree when I first took the picture on that frosty morning in December. Marie gave me the idea of adding large flowers into landscape images and I really like the result.
Metal Book
Taken with Nikon 18-105 mm Lens
F4.5, ISO 500, Exposure 1/15 Sec
Taken with Tamron 90 mm Macro Lens
F5, ISO 200, Exposure 1/30
Finished Image
For this image I used the metal book as my background. I cropped the flower image to cut off any background detail that I didn't want showing. I dragged in the metal book image, and then I dragged the flower image in too. I then clicked on Layer Mask. I clicked Eraser and took the Opacity down to 8% for the flowers and 100% to knock out any background around the book. I then clicked Enhance, Adjust Lighting, Shadow/Highlights, Lighten Shadows and set it at 25%.
I struggled like mad with this one, as I've only just brought the copy of Photoshop Elements 9 and seeing as it doesn't come with many instructions, it was like the blind leading the blind. I found that youtube was a very useful tool for getting me through this layering image. I was so pleased once I had finished it. On the whole, I liked the image produced, I also like how the flowers were faded, still leaving the image and the water marks.
I have had to elaborate on how I have achieved these results as I wasn't able to do any screen grab. So I'm hoping that I've given sufficient step by step instructions.
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