Tuesday, 20 October 2009

More Portrait Ideas

Here is one of my portrait ideas where I've put together pictures of all the strong women in my life. I over feathered the two women in the middle because they are no longer with us I wanted to give them a ghost like quality. In this portrait there are quite a range of different generations.

Here I wanted to explore using words within a portrait to help get the point across

These two portraits were just experiments to see how brightness and backgrounds change

Saturday, 17 October 2009

Maya Style Lighting




Right ok I didnt have enough time on thursday to finish the style lighting and unfortunately dont have maya at home so will have to do the rest when im back but in the mean time gonna blog as much as I can

Point Lighting in Maya




Thursday, 15 October 2009

Digital Manipulation

Here I thought I'd explore photoshop and try out manipulating my imaghes digitally. I wanted, in this photograph, to distort my face so I turned this black and white and then added red to where my nails are to look like im bleeding. Unfortunately you cannot see the red very clearly unless it is enlarged.
Here I try smoothing out my skin, getting rid of spots and blemishes so I look as if I've been airbrushed but using curves I've seem to come out quite shiny.

Here is the same image in colour giving a weird futuristic feel to the same photograph, and even though it's a photograph it deceiving.


Wednesday, 14 October 2009

Here I was just trying out using black and white and then editing the brightness to use shadows to hide my face.
Here I was trying out ruining my image by adding cuts to my skin and scratching out my eyes

Here I used the colour selecter to pick out shades of my skin and then using my graphic tablet to paint over the original photograph




Here I edited the brightness and contrast to create just an outline image of myself with no background


Maya Models







Sunday, 11 October 2009

Essay Ideas

My computer has been messing up alot lately so havent been able to blog at home as much. My idea for my essay was too explore your face being a logo either that or females in portrait. I feel that women can seem very strong in more modern portraits compared to the old traditional where women where just a thing of beauty and to be looked at. I really want to get my teeth stuck into the essay but have no idea where to start at the moment.