Fashion Shoot Reflection

Shooting this project was a lot of fun! Though my prints ended up dark and out of focus because the settings on the camera were wrong for my film, I feel that my photoshopping definitely improved them. I brightened each of them, and especially focused on putting more contrast in the clothes and brightness and contrast in my model's face, in order to shift attention onto those aspects. On one image, I tinted the clothes different colors to bring them out and left the rest black and white. One another, I drew in flowers and vines spelling out "fashion by francesca" to give the look of a fashion line ad, and my final picture I simply edited for brightness and contrast but left it black and white with no added features because I really liked the original shot and pose. I loved having spontaneous ideas and trying different poses with my model and then highlighting key features of the pictures through photoshop, which is definitely an important asset in this project. I would love to try another fashion shoot like this again. It felt very professional because of the fun clothes, white background, and strobe.

Fashion Photo Shoot

Self-portrait reflection

I truly enjoyed creating the self-portrait. I started with only a simple shot of myself (taken with the computer camera), and ended up with a creative image that expresses who I am. I layered a picture of the sky (from Flickr) and a shot of piano keys to symbolize my love of nature and music, and chose "f" (for francesca) and "7" (my favorite number) as my number and letter. I repreated f's and 7's and a rainbow-esque pattern to show my openness and love of diversity. I used a watercolor effect on my actual portrait to make it look more artsy, and filtered the piano keys and sky with different effects to create a more varied, interesting texture. I thought using Photoshop was a lot of fun and I liked using different techniques to create a new image.

Self-Portrait