Digital Photography: 2011-05-29

German Etching Paper - creates velvet blacks
A4-Shiny paper $2
Frame with line around image
Rag cotton paper - $90 square meter
inkjet paper obsorbs ink - dye
German etching paper - ink sits on top - easily smudged - pigment on top of paper
Series of images can be displayed in box
can do framing courses - to exhibit
space between glass and frame - adds different feel to image
neutral frames
Websites - domain central
Luke simon - wedding commerical
Dave Evans
Sharpen before print open one at 50% and another at 100%
Smart Sharpen - sharpen what needs to be sharpened
"hallos" eg plants flowers
black frame next to white boarder adds balances out feel to the image not to dark not to white
sharpen to the point where the image starts to lose itself
cant sharpen images that are out of focus
look at all areas of image- no dust spots

After working on my final Narririve and finishing four of the five images:

I found that i liked the older style alot, I made my subject wear a shirt, i stuck a freaky old lampshade in our room to create that old feel. while at the same times i worked with high shadows like the remade film for the images to look modern in black and white. The first image I used the old horror font and duplicated the layer to give it a large drop shadow, and left the background and lighting reasonalbly simple to side with and orginal poster. I tried posterizing the image to create that high contrast flat image that alot of the poster have but i found that it didnt look to good with the other images as a series. I decided to keep them all the same so they all look as real as they possibly can while still looking old with the black and white. Ive use two images before the change and two images after the change. Using inspiration from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban i wanted to reflect the change with the blood shot eye and small pupils. In harry potter the werewolfs pupil grows larger and I tried that within my image, as well as an oval shaped pupil but it didnt quite look right so went with a small pupil.

Harry Potter Werewolf - Large Pupil

Example Werewolfs Eye

Eye that I started - Oval shaped.

Given more time, I would most likly chnage some of my images - i dont feel like the last two images convey a narritive very much, I would make scratches on trees or include a girl witin in the images. I feel like the last image looks good as a shot but the wolfman isnt doing anything interesting it doesnt make you ask whats happening in the image as much as id like it too.