This is the photo I used for these experiments. This was one of the first times I had shot in raw and now I much prefer it as I have a lot more control of the outcome of the photos using camera raw before opening in photoshop.
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This is another edit of the messed up strips experiments. I really like this one as I feel the depth of field gives a bigger impact on the photo. I did another one of these are they're my favourite and I think work really well with my theme. As I really liked this effect I wanted to expand and see where else I could take it so I started doing some other experiments similar to it.
I made a template for making the messed up strips photos. All I need to do is place a photo into the document and then adjust the vertical rulers to the width of the model.
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Instead of strips I tried using circle cuts outs instead. I think this technique gives a different type of distortion which is nice. Because the shapes are round it's softer on the eye and more calming. Looking at this image reminds me a bit of looking through a kaleidoscope, a bubble or water in a glass. Because the image is sharp and clean this technique suits the photo. I still prefer the strips technique but I'm going to further experiment.
A template to make a circle cut out image. You will have to duplicate or delete some layers depending on the size of the model in the image.
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In this image I combined the strips cuts outs with the circle cut outs. I felt this worked really well and I like the circles being a combination of over and under the strips.
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This edit is done by using the smudge tool. I wanted to see what it would look like to smudge the whole face and see if I get a nice pattern or effect. I liked it because you can't see any of the facial features and it's almost like the model's wearing a mask and hiding their identity which I like.
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This idea I got from when I used the photoshop blank canvas in one of my strip edits earlier on. I thought it would by cool to have just a paintbrush stroke of the image shown. I decided to use the photoshop blank canvas as oppose to a plain white rectangle as I felt it worked well as it's a digital photo and it's all done digitally it made sense to have the default photoshop blank canvas.
I did this by opening a photo, deleting the layer it was on leaving the blank checkered canvas. I then did a screenshot then pasted it into a new document and then cropped. After cropping I dragged that layer onto whatever photo I want to use.
Then I'd duplicate that canvas layer and hide one of them (as a backup) then used the eraser tool as a paintbrush to draw my photo. I also can lower the opacity of the canvas layer to see which areas I want showing and then change the opacity back up to 100%.
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These four images are some images from a personal shoot that I did that I liked and may use in some experiments.
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I wanted to do a magazine cover as i felt photos from this shoot would work well in it. I decided to use New a photography magazine as I liked their front covers of contemporary photography with a simple white logo and text. I decided to make a logo/title using the model's name as I thought it would be good if the focus of the front to page to be about her. I also study graphics so I like implementing that in some of my photography work. As a magazine is portrait and the image I wanted to use was landscape I combined two images one ontop of the other. I thought the worked well and partly inspired me for my next edit.
The previous edit to this gave me an idea to create a polaroid sized image out of two photos. I really like how the main image fits with the border image. I really like this idea and I think I'll experiment with it in the future. I searched for the dimensions of a polaroid photo on the internet and made a document that size and used the rulers to mark out the areas. I used a rectangle that I then rasterized and then paste the image into for the brighter image.
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