Pictorialism Project 2014

This year in photo editing class the pictorialism project is the first assignment. I am working on a Photo I took in the Bradbury building. A lot of movies have been filmed there and some people call  it the Blade Runner Building. The instructor looked at ou preliminary results and thinks I should add more gold color to the gradient mapping step so the image will look like an orotone print.
































Here is the original image.

I used this image to copy what was behind the person.

 

Here is the orotone version of the project.

Yesterday I watched Scorcese's film The Age of Innocence (1993). I was impressed by his use of color in the interior scenes in the mansions of New York during the Gilded Age and early twentieth century. I wanted to see if I could create something similar. I turned off the gradient mapping layer and this is what I got.

This morning I was watching parts of the film noir D.O.A and the television episode of the Outer Limits episode Demon with a Glass Hand (1964), which were shot in the Bradbury Building. I wanted to see if I could create the low key lighting style. Here is what I did later this morning.

New Design Project

I am currently working on a calender called The Pueblos of New Mexico. There are 19 Pueblos in New Mexico. Over half of them are less than an hours drive from Albuquerque. The others are between Santa Fe and Taos. Getting the permits to photograph won't be that difficult since it will be a non profit venture and no tribal members will be photographed. Here is the first photo I will use. It was taken at the Isleta Pueblo.

Fixing Eyeshine in Pets from Flash Photography

Don't even bother to try using a red eye tool. The problem is not red eye but eyeshine. Many animals have a membrane immediately behind the retina that reflects visible light back through the retina and gives the animal better night vision. You can try painting a color over the shine area, but there won't be any of the normal architectural detail of the iris because of the intense backlighting behind the iris. The best correction is to take a picture of your pet outdoors without flash and extract the eyes from that photo and use them in the photo you want to correct.

 

Some of Katy's eyes from my files. Rotating the eyes a small amount will change the facial expression.