https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1GPbuv0IwM
I used these tutorials to make Laura and Renae's shadows more prominent and dramatic. http://www.bing.com/videos/search? q=Photoshop+Change+Eye+Color&&view=detail&mid=BCFAB2A84C864C1FDA30BCFAB2A84C864C1FDA30& FORM=VRDGAR In this picture, I learned how to use the selection and saturation tools to change Laura's eye color.
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s/o to carlie for actually coming to school
Yousuf Karsh was born on December 23, 1908, and died July 13, 2002. He was born in Madin, Armenia and was considered to be one of the world's most renowned portrait photographers. He photographed a lot of many great celebrated people in his generation. When he was 14, he fled with his family to the safety of Syria, because of the genocide of Christian Armenians by the Turk government. There, the Canadian Prime Minister discovered Karsh and liked him. The Prime Minister introduced him to many dignitaries, and from there, his portrait capturing career took off. Yousuf Karsh's work includes portraits of statesmen, artist, musicians, authors, scientists, and men and women of accomplishment. In his early work, he worked on artificial light (for the first time in 1929-1941.) He searched for his own form of expression during this time. During 1952 he started building on the success of is Winston Churchill portrait. During his career, he held 15,312 sittings, and produced over 150,000 negatives. This was an indelible artistic and historic record of the men and women who shaped the twentieth century. Karsh inspires me because of many reasons. He went through a lot in his early life, and he created success out of his hard times. His photographs (especially his portraits) speak so much more than a photo of a person's face. Many of his portrait subjects were very important people in history (such as Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr. , and JFK) and I find that inspiring because he came from such a rough background. His images almost show all the emotions the subject is feeling, and the lighting brings even more depth into his work. I hope to be able to recreate his work in a way to show the depth of the subjects in my photos. My Interpretation I really enjoyed trying to mimic Yousef Karsh's photography. Making Laura and Renae pose for me the way Yousef positioned his subjects really helped the photos turn out. I really tried to focus on the dark and light areas in them, and the contrast really helped bring the emotion I wanted to convey. I'm a little disapointed on the quality of the raw picutres though, they were really blurry and not perfectly in focus. But photoshop helped a bit. I'm pretty pleased on how I tried to mimic this amazing artist.
What I learned: I learned how to combine photos and adjust the fill and opacity percent's to make it more transparent. I also learned how to add two images combined onto a white background. This made more of an affect on the face of my subject.
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