I Get My Blue

I sat down with two SD cards full of hundreds of photos and began narrowing them down. I was very surprised at how amazing these pictures came out but there was a big problem: it is quite obvious that I'm not a model when I am looking directly into the camera. Most of the shot that I did not delete were of profiles or me looking off to the side. I'm not sure if a cover photo looking directly at the audience has the same effect when the model looks uncomfortable. Anyways, I decided I would just narrow down the photos and choose from there whether it was a profile or a front facing shot. Here are how some of the shots came out, I was really happy with these pictures' quality.

Blake Repp, my photo specialist, told me that we can work together on photoshop to edit these pictures properly. I still had some concerns about how to make the background blue in these shots, and whether I would do it or not. So we began by editing a draft picture and just playing around in the program. Blake was able to connect his laptop to a Television screen so we can easily see the picture in a bigger frame and with a brighter backlight.

When we sat down and tried working the program, Blake showed me an interesting layering technique where he cuts out a part of the photo and is able to edit solely that piece over the entire photograph. I immediately thought that this can be used to change the hue and temperature of solely the background while the front remains completely intact. The result is subtle but I think this will work perfectly for my magazine. I finally found a way to incorporate light blue.