Computer Experiments

Here is a photo that I have edited to look as if it was taken on a Lomo Camera. Lomo Cameras were developed in Russia in the late 1980s and despite being a knock-off of another camera of the time period, have increased in popularity due to their high contrast image and vignette effect. Above, I have recreated a Lomo style image using photoshop, which I learned from this tutorial. The image displays a high contrast, as well as a vignette around the area of the salt pot shown in the foreground. Below is the original image I used to create the Lomo edit, from which you can compare the differences.

Above is an example of my use of selective colourisation. As you can see, the yellow banner and the blue text on it is in colour while the rest of the image has been converted to black and white. To create this image in Photoshop, I selected the yellow banner along the card using the quick selection tool, then inverted the selection with select>inverse. This meant that everything that wasn't the banner was selected, meaning I could convert to black and white and the banner would be excluded from the conversion.

Here is another example of my use of this technique. In the image, I selected the red section to remain in colour and converted the rest to black and white.

Another technique I frequently used throughout my final shoots is vignette, and an example of this can be seen above. To create a vignette, the first thing I did was create an ellipsis marquee that takes up most of the image

I set the feathering to 150px on the marquee selection in order to avoid hard edges in my vignette. The next step was the inverse the selection, using select>inverse.

This meant that the area surrounding the ellipsis was the area selected. This was the area in which my vignette would be created. The final step was the create a brightness/contrast adjustment layer and lower the brightness, which creates the darkness around the image that is the vignette.

Another use of computer experiments in my work was the use of duotone. Below can be seen my Duotone image. I created this by opening the original and going to image>mode and selected greyscale. This allowed me to go into the mode menu again select the duotone option. I set my main tone to black and moved my secondary tone to be a very muted shade of orange, meaning the image has an almost sepia tonal effect.