Initial thoughts and mini task

Thinking about the letter 'G' I would think of fun activities like gaming and gambling. I think I am drawn towards gambling because I can base clothign and fashion designs on symbols and items that are involved in it.

For the mini task I am going to get some cards and place/hold them in specific ways that resemble gambling or form a good composition.

Edits

I first opened my chosen image in Photoshop.

I then used the horizontal type tool and rasterized a capital 'G' layer so that I could change the the size and shape of it. I had to use the clone stamp tool in order to make the black of the letter cover a larger area. This was so that I could fit everything I wanted inside the black.

I then used the quick select on the letter and inversed the selection, I clicked on the image layer and filled the selected area with black. Hide the original 'G' layer and you are left with the image in the shape of the 'G'. I then cropped it down so that there wasn't an uneven black background.

I adjusted the levels using an adjustment layer however I didn't like how dark the the cards were so I made another adjustment layer and made them brighter. This layer only focuses on the white of the cards. I made another adjustment layer for the hue and saturation to make the red of the back of the cards and the orange of the light stand out.

 I finally made a high pass layer to define the edges in the image. Unexpectedly it also sharpened the letters edge but made it look a lot more defined and a lot better.

Final image

Using a small aperture has worked quite effectively however I think I should have pushed it as low as it would have gone because I left it on f/4.5. This is so that the focus of the image would be focused on the cards even more than it already is. The image is mostly made up of warm tones. I feel that this makes the red on the back of the cards stand out. This was caused by the type of lighting that was in the restaurant I was in; the lighting was a normal bulb. However I feel that this has been used well because it makes the top of the image have something to look at; it makes it interesting. The shape of the G has split the lightest part of the image into 2 and takes a chunk from the side. I think this takes a lot of the focus away from the hand and draws it to the Joker card because it is fully in the frame of the G.

Introduction

This assignment is focused on location photography. Location photographers are usually very skilled at providing the right images for their category of clients and they work indoors and outdoors in order to get the right conditions for their images.

i-D Magazine is a publication dedicated to popular topics like fashion, music, arts and anything associated to youth. Over the next 6 weeks I will have to produce 1 front cover using their logo, 'i-D wink' and model displaying format, and I will have to produce 2 double page spreads based on A-Z fun & games. The A-Z was randomly selected and I got 'G'. Once all the articles have been produced by the class we shall combine them to create our own class Magazine. Only one front cover will be chosen.