This assignment was basically to take an image and edit it to change the mood using whatever methods you wanted. I took some pictures of my friend this weekend so I decided to incorporate that into this week’s blog post. Depending on the look I am going for I can heavily edit my photos and I figured that would work perfectly for this Switch up the Mood assignment. I don’t have any fancy lighting equipment, just one light, a reflector and a blank wall and I used all these to create this image straight out of the camera.
I went through a heavy editing process in Photoshop where I changed the lighting, saturation, contrast, hue/saturation, coloring, blurring, sharpening, etc. I did a lot to get this finished product:
I feel like all of my edits switched up the mood which I was going for. My model was sick the day I took these pictures and I was still trying to figure out where I wanted my lighting, but I liked this picture and wanted to use it. There is a greenish orange cast in the original image that doesn’t look very good and I knew that I wanted to change that. I wanted to make it look like there was more of a grey studio background (not the apartment wall I was using). I did a lot of color changing using several adjustment layers, edited her skin/lips, and dodged and burned her body to give it more depth. I added a purplish color at the end as well as a motion blur to give it a more styled look. Overall, I think the tone dramatically changed from one image to another, showing you just how powerful Photoshop can be.