Evaluation

Our brief for the topic was to research and create a pop art picture using Photoshop. I started out by researching the origins and how pop art was first created, I didn't have much luck as all the information really told me was when and who and not how. Afterwards I went on to look at other inspiring pictures and grabbed a total of 10. the characteristic of these photos where all modern pictures but with very vibrant colours. I also went into looking at set ups for the photo shoot and annotated a nice picture that fit what ours looked likes.

I had to set up out camera onto its stand, the softbox lamp that creates no shadows on the table making it easier to edit and I also set up another lamp to also create no shadows in the back ground. The camera was sitting on top of the flatbed. The camera settings were set to an ISO of 100 to capture all the detail and aperture to 3.2 how ether id prefer a 8.0 so it creates a deeper depth of field.For my picture I went for a simple bottle as I thought editing the image would be easier with a bottle. It took me two tries to finally get a decent looking end result as the first one i didnt print screen my process and it was also really bad but the second time around i went over my mistakes and made a crisper looking picture, even if it still bad.

The project was enjoyable and the editing was good, if i could change anything in my project it would be the items I chose and I would of brought in more better items instead of a bottle like a potatoe to really grasp the randomness I found in my research.

Final Picture

Using the line shape tool I created a perfectly straight lines and lined up my image with it, I then went on to removing the background with the erase tool.

Afterward I filled in the background with a pink colour and then went into the colour balanced and played with the sliders until i found a colour I like. Ill be doing this process another three times.

After I saved my other three images and the one shown above I opened another A4 sized landscape page and sized the shape of of all the images to the exact same size and put them together. There was excess whit page and I used the crop tool to fit the image with out any bits hanging off. 

Contact Sheet final edit and process

When taking this picture there were things i had to keep in mind the ISO and the aperture then the shadows in the image, the two bottom picture are more crisp and clear maybe and the shadows at the top could be caused by my positioning. The aperture and ISO wasn't

edited in any of the pictures as i like the way it looked, aperture was set at 3.2 so it could focus on the bottle and the ISO was at 100 due to the amount of light there was.

To edit the picture I first started with editing the levels to bring out the white background in the back so i can edit it clearly and get rid of a few of the shadows.

This is the results of editing with levels the background is whiter and the image is a lot more clear which will allow me to change the color of the image.