I went back over my images to further refine them. I wanted them to look as coherent as possible. I had previously adjusted the curves and although they looked the same, I wasn't happy with them as they lacked the warmth I wanted them to have. After Jame's lecture this morning on adjusting certain colours hue's by selecting them, I used this technique to go back and try again with my images. I edited them side by side so I could easily see the changes against each other as I went. I brought the original warmth back into the image, and brought the saturation of the green down slightly.
Whilst playing around with the hue and saturation selecting samples to work with, I experimented with altering the background colour of my portrait. I was happy with the three together but the possibility of having some of the yellow colour was quite appealing to further link them together. I decided that it didn't look right and that I preferred the original blue.
When trying to keep a good level of coherence within my images I wanted to experiment with these two images to see if I can get the blues to match and for it to look realistic. I think altering the luminace of the blue in the second image changes the image quite drastically.
original
Luminance of the blue altered
Then I adjusted the hue of the original slightly to bring out a bolder colour, and to bring it closer to the colour of the background of the previous image. This right image will be my final one to submit, I don't think the darker one on the left is as strong as an image, and the right is still visually coherent with my other images. I am glad I experimented though, as I was always wondering if I could bring them closer and how it would look.
Today I experimented with putting my images into professional contexts to see how they would look. The first mock up works better and looks more realistic. I think the image works well in that context, its more plain than some of my others which is the reason I chose it for toyshop as the majority of their advertising is shot on a plain background when in the studio. I chose to aim the second mock up at Zara because its where the styling came from, I don't think it looks as authentic, but that is maybe because of the large scale of the billboard and it isn't really something Zara would do.
I experimented with the combination of a GIF and stills over the weekend. I really like the border and repetition of the same image. This was my first attempt. I think it came out okay, but you can see where the background colour changes really clearly, so I plan to try again later and see if I can rid of this by editing the original stills.
I found JH Zane on Instagram after they came up as a sponsored post on one of my friends phones and they thought it would be relevant to me. What I found I liked most was their short moving image pieces; I've still got to edit together my moving image from my Diversity brief, and was planning on doing this monday in our workshop on creating gifs and cinemagraphs, however I wanted to try out this as the combination of still and moving really appeals to me.
Links for the clips:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BPHaMmMh2ds/?taken-by=jh.zane&hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/p/BNPrhEGhXqW/?taken-by=jh.zane&hl=en
Lazy Oaf is another brand who's fashion stories containing gifs I thought worked really well. Again, its the combination of both still and and moving image which I want to experiment with.
They use these GIFs as part of editorials to add another aspect other than flat stills, something I really like as its understated but still creates another dimension for the stories to sit in. They're so simple; literally an infinite loop of two images but together with the speed and in combination with the still for the first example, and the fact its such a subtle movement in the second that it still works as a still.
We're going to be taught how to make a cinema graph too as we could submit one as part of the third and final project. It presents itself as a still image, but contains a small element of moving image.
