211 , Presentation of Theme 2 Landscape

I had originally decided upon the presentation of my two themes final images by arranging them onto a A3 size format within Photoshop and just simply print off within the collage . After some forethought as having to present two themes I changed my mind about my landscape pictures presentation. I searched on the Internet for some inspiration and after looking on several websites for example Jessops and proaminaging.com I decided upon using the Boots website because of it's ease to use and it's wide range of formats to choose from . I had tried to upload my pictures onto a photo book but it required me to have 30 pictures so wouldn't allow my to do this . After a little thought and looking around on the Boots site I then realised that with having twelve images this would be ideal for a calender. I then just had to decide on which layout. The Boots website gives a multitude of choices of themes and layouts and is very easy and navigate. With my images being in different sizes I at first struggled to find a format to fit them in but after after a little while I was able to upload them into a collage easily in a format which I found suitable. 

Below is the final images all put on a A3 format within photoshop which I was very pleased with but then went onto to present them in a printed manner.

http://www.bootsphoto.com/studio?creation_id=22518918

I have now received my calender collage from Boots and I am fairly pleased with it,the cost seemed fair at £20.98 , this included postage and the delivery time was excellent only taking 2 working days. The only slight disappointment was that the images were slightly darker then I anticipated, the Boots program had cropped some of the images and I felt that it would have been better produced on lustre paper rather then the gloss which was used. I will bring my collage to college for Steve to see and review. With signing up as a customer with Boots I was also given up to 40 free prints to use so will be able to get prints of all my images from both themes which I will order and will also bring to college. Below is a screen grab from the Boots website showing some of the uploaded pictures . Also showing directly below is a screen grab of a very good editing programme on the Boots site called "picnik" this has quite advanced tool which allows many adjustments for example , cloning , curves and sharpening there's also all the basic tools like exposure and cropping. 

Photoshop Introduction 24/11/11

Today we were introduced to the Adobe photo processing program called Photoshop , the version installed on my college computer was CS5 . I have a Nikon picture editor on my own computer but have very limited experience on Photoshop so was keen to learn some more.
Firstly we were instructed how to crop a picture this is taking away part of a picture by to show what we thought and to decide what size we were to use for our final 10 images be it A4 , A3 , 10inch by 8inch etc. For this occasion I choose 10in x 8 in and also set the DPI to 300 so to give the best quality possible if they were to be printed. Next we learnt about the layer process , as you make your changes to your image you are to build layers up with each change which can be viewed separately. I experimented within the program to change the brightness , contrast , colour , B & W , cropping and adjusting the hue and saturation.

Below I have posted screen grabs from the Photoshop program
 Firstly as you can see I have simply changed this picture to Black and White.

Here I have cropped the picture than adjusted the amount brightness/contrast then lastly Hue / Saturation was adjusted . With the contrast to the maximum and the reds adjusted this has given this image a real feeling of being taken on another planet!!

On this occasion I have cropped the picture but not changed anything else apart from identifying two areas to re touch . In then image below you can see the rectangle marque around a piece of seaweed I wished to taken out the shot.

Below you can see that the seaweed to the bottom right has disappeared as also the piece just above the rock to the right which you can see is hi lighted in the last picture of thie scene.

Below is a picture of my daughter , here you can see I have increased the contrast of the picture this gives it a bit of a rough grainy feel to it .

Then I have selected to change to picture to black and white

Above I have adjusted the Brightness and Contrast then as you can see below I have experimented with the filters giving the picture a blue tint . Overall I was happy with my progress within the Photoshop and will soon hope to be processing my final images.

Capture Cornwall

Aspects of Health and Safety ;All the pictures I took were taken on a beach so great care was needed . As there was two of us on the shoots we had to firstly ensure that ourselve or any of our equipment did not create any hazards to each other as neither of us wanted to get wet!! Whilst on the beaches we had to take particular care to try to keep the sand out of our equipment to do this we used clear plastic bags to kepp them in while not in use. Care was needed whilst setting up tripods for two reasons , one so that the legs didn't foal ourselves or any others on the beach and that they were not positioned in such a place were we could get stranded by the incoming tide.