Photo shoot, before and after photo-shop

As it was a sunny day, we was asked to take a DLSR outside to take some pictures to fill certain criteria for typical album photo shoots. For example one of the categories was 'the serious one', 'the not looking at the camera one', and 'the great mate’s one'. For this blog post, I will be sharing the original photos that we took, and the outcome of them on photo-shop. We actually ended up taking about 80 photos because none of felt like we was doing the right poses. However, we eventually got there, but we think that only about 3 photos turned out okay.

For this effect, I altered the colour, saturation, and hue. I had to do this separately to each picture as otherwise the effect would be applied to each picture and that was not my aim. I like the Andy

Warhol connotation, the album cover looks like it’s from the 80’s and that the artist is fun and has an ‘I don’t care’ attitude. I did have some difficulty with trying to figure out how to put the pictures together on photo shop, as I had to save them all separately. In the end I used a photo collage

maker, but Niamh did figure out how to do this effect properly on photo-shop, eventually.

This photo is suppose show ‘the great friends’ album cover as Rae and Niamh are smiling at so this symbolises friendship and optimism. This is enhanced by the bright colours used in the bricks, also

the mise en scene of how they are wearing summer clothes. I did not create this, it is in fact Niamh’s work. For the front layer, she kept the same, and the under layer was transparent so she was able to

Photo shoot, before and after photo-shop

draw over it, thus making the bricks stand out. Also the before photo is a lot darker than the after photo, so Niamh increased the brightness to give it a more positive effect.

This photos portrays the idea of ‘we are a lot of fun’ category as it is unique to have blue hair. For this effect, we clicked on the black and white filter in the adjustments list. Then we found the

paintbrush tool, selected the colour blue, by using a small circle we could be precise about which places we wanted to be blue. In this case it was our hair, and this is the outcome.