UNIT 1 Past, Present and future Postcard
I started out using Photoshop to create more of a dramatic sky.
I had removed the original sky by selecting the quick select tool in Photoshop to basically to select the sky and delete it.
At first I had to add the Stonehenge to a new layer on (Ps) and add it to the top of the darker sky image.
Once I have removed the sky I the chose the smudge tool just to bend the edges of the Stone just to add a seem less look to it with the new background.
So I have tried some different background with more of a Sci-Fi as a planet passing over where Stonehenge is located.
What I had to do is get new background and I did the same by selecting the sky but this time i had to rotate the other image to be facing towards the structures.
I also low the opacity of the planet to match with the Stonehenge.
I do quite enjoy using Photoshop and I will keep learning about it.
Original images used
UNIT 1 Past,Presentand FuturePostcards
The Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a research and development project that produced the first nuclear weapons during World War II. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was the director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory that designed the actual bombs.
Two types of atomic bomb were developed during the war
(Fact)
The first nuclear device ever detonated was an implosion-type bomb at the Trinity test, conducted at New Mexico’s Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range on 16 July 1945. Little Boy, a gun-type weapon, and Fat Man, an implosion-type weapon, were used in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. In the immediate post-war years, the Manhattan Project conducted weapons testing at Bikini Atoll as part of Operation Crossroads, developed new weapons, promoted the development.
FINAL
For my final piece I am creating a montage of images being put together to tell a story about the Manhattan Project in World War II.
The reason I chose this topic I found it really interesting and how the atom bomb was made and the back story of the people who was involved in making of the atomic bomb.
In this image I am lowering the opacity of the alarm clock to give the effect of time fades away. The alarm clock represents the time that would be left over until the first atomic bomb in development in World War 2.
Little Boy was the for the type of atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 by the Boeing B-29 Super fortress Enola Gay.
Using the rule of third made it easy for me to place where exactly I should place the atomic bomb even if everything is centred with the explosion while the clock melts and fades away.
The clock is in the centre of the horizon of the image.
The reason why I chose the desert is because the first atomic bomb was tested in one. The road would symbolise the path how things had changed after the World War 2 and how came to be after the war, (For change to happen, disorder and chaos has to take place and then order will take place).
I tried to add a filter to make the smoke more of an old picture and make it stand out more.
GREEN SCREEN
Monday 14 September
Today in class we learned how to remove or change the green screen behind a person or an object and change it to be a different background or to add in something different on a layer by selecting colour range in Photoshop. Green screen is been used in movies, T.V shows and even images.
Green screen is a less expensive way for movies because it would be easy for the actor so they don’t have to move to a new location each time they shoot a movie or TV series.
The women with the green scree should be on top of the sky and you would see it in the layers.
In Photoshop to select the green portion you would have to go to select and then to colour range and then by selecting the green.
You would then need add a masking layer.
What the layer mask will do is will not remove or delete the green but just make it invisible so when ever you the green back it would be easy to get the green back.
In the image you can see green that was not selected and did not blend well this is call colour bleed. The colour will bleed through sometimes from the light reflecting and bouncing off the person or, an object but is a easy to adjust and blend the colour to make it more seem less. By using the hue saturation and just adjust the colour.
The process is fairly easy and I enjoy green screen
Green screen is also know as Chroma key
Chroma key compositing, or Chroma keying, is a special effects / post-production technique for layering two images or video together based on colour hues (Chroma range). The technique has been used in many fields to remove a background from the photo or video – particularly the motion picture and videogame industries. A colour range in the top layer is made transparent, revealing another image behind. The Chroma keying technique is commonly used in video production and postproduction. This technique is also referred to as colour keying, colour-separation overlay), or by various terms for specific colour-related variants such as green screen, and blue screen – Chroma keying can be done with backgrounds of any colour that are uniform and distinct, but green and blue backgrounds are more commonly used because they differ most noticeable in hue from most human skin colours. No part of the person being filmed or photographed may duplicate a colour used in the background
MY EXPERIMENTS
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I did a few experiments in Photoshop and with green screen and other still images. I used different means of bending and using blend modes in Photoshop. The blending modes that I have used the most are screen, overlay, darken and lighten.
In my first image I experimented with green screen and it looks as if I and my friend and we were having our last fight watched over by a UFO. I used various tools in Photoshop the enhanced the image. The burn tool will make the shadows more dark and using the brush tool to add highlights to the building and draw a completely new building where we are having battle.
In my second image of the eyes I used various blend modes in Photoshop on top of the layers pallet and a few layer masks. In the image you see an atomic bomb been set off in the refection in the eye as a skull forms the mushroom cloud. I do love that the colours are complementary. Using the burn tool brightens up and the burn tool darken.
In the third image the cactus and I look as if each other are racing one another. I tried something simpler but did not blend myself into the background.
In the forth image I had made myself drive a tank. I did use the hue/saturation to change the colour of the tank to a blue and made it look futuristic.
MOOD BORAD
in my mood board i just took a few ideas that were in my head like the Pollo 11, The manhatten project and the industrial Revolution and eyes meaning what the people had seen throught their eyes.
DAVID HOCKNEY
Interesting way how he pieces a large amount of individual images together and it turns out to be a bigger image. David`s art is amazing and really colourful as its only a collage of images rather giving it a unique composition.
John Stezaker
His work is surreal in tone and is often made using collage and the appropriation of existing images such as postcards, and publicity photographs.
His work is very likeable and odd but has some sort of deeper meaning behind it and each art work he does.
FINAL Postcard
FINAL
The final postcard is a montage of the images that I have put and place in a certain way in Photoshop. The postcard will tell a story, albert Einstein was helping with the post-production of the atomic bomb in world war 2 but knew it would be a bad that the Nazis would use it for war.
For my final post card I didn’t really have a fully structured idea in my head and not knowing what the outcome but tried to gain inspiration from other people in my class. I had the idea of Manhattan Project and Apollo 11 for the final but leaned towards world war idea. I found that my experiments were more interesting with a meaning and sometimes random. I did overall enjoy this project even with my final postcard to be up to par but does have some sort of deeper meaning which makes in that much more interesting. I had learned more things about photoshop like green screen and masking and colour correction.
Stop motion Animation
28 September
today I had experimented with stop motion animation. this is where images is taken and played in a sequence how the character or and prop would be animated. we had to be in a group of four and come up with a few ideas. one idea we would use a swan fighting the mannequin but seem a bit to complicated by the movements on the camera and to quick. the second idea we changed to a less complicated movements of the swan circling the mannequin and the it would step on the swan and lift up its arms in victory.