Evaluation

Our assignment was to take shots at unique items and then upload them onto Photoshop and then make a pop art piece from the images that we have taken. Also we taken the shots under a seamless background because this excludes all of the background colour and shadows are all erased. With settings such as a low aperture and a low ISO to get the most detailed image we possibly can and shutter speed isn’t a problem because we wasn’t taking a shot of a moving object so we could use a long shutter speed and still capture a fine image.

Pop art came about from New York when artists took everyday objects and put them into a unique background or even repeat the image but different colours and I a cartoon artistic way which also makes the image pop.

For research I looked at a lot of images from Google to look for inspiration and Ideas in which we can then add into our own pieces to create a pop art image that I can create.

I looked into artists that have created pop art work and I came across Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and David Hockney and took a few images from each artist which I liked and that could help me with my final design.

I intended to produce a pop art piece in which I will use one of my images and then use this 6 times on the page but each image has a different background. I would then edit the curves and levels of the item I have chosen and give it an electric blue look but unlike the background I will be keeping the image colour the same in the blue.

This piece wasn’t time consuming because creating the final image was simple and just a use of duplicating the same image and editing the blending options for the shapes which I used for the background to change the colour of them.

The considerations I had to take in was that I had to get a really sharp image around the bottle so I had to really zoom into the image to get all the white background of the image to give me a clean sharp image.

Yes my images matched my proposal because I took into account before that I wanted something simple and easy to do but also have the pop art uniqueness still in the image but also not having a rushed image. But If I was going to do this again I probably would have made more than 2 pieces with a range of images like the trainers and the Radox.

The things that we would usually need to take into account such as location and lighting wasn’t a problem in this because we had a seamless background and the location was fine because it was always free and during college hours. The other things such as camera setting was that we would use a low ISO such as 50 because we had a good light source and wanted to get as much light into the lens as possible so our image would look crisp. Aperture we used the lowest we had which was f8 because we didn’t need a wide depth of field because we just wanted to focus on the one image. The background was white so we could focus even more on the image and won’t have the camera being thrown off by other colours.

Editing techniques I firstly used was the curves to get the electric blue look by inverting the colours when I was playing around with them. I then changed the levels to make my image brighter and a sharper contrast. I used 6 squares to create background and then cropped them down so the image was balanced and the squares was fair and equal. Then I imported the image over then duplicated the Disaronno bottle and made them equally in the centre of each square creating the pop art piece. I then looked at my image at first and seen the background colours looked to bright so I changed the hue and saturation of the background and made it darker making my image stand out more because it looks more bright.

 From looking at my images they was the ones I wanted and fit my proposal but if I was to do this again and had time I would have used the redheads to create an even brighter area because on some off my images the shadows was visible but if I was to use a redhead that would be more time consuming setting up the background and getting all the lights set up so the one we used was a soft box which was decent at excluding shadows and quicker and safer to set up because the light wasn’t exposed at its hottest like a redhead.  But by using this I was able to get my images to fit my purpose of what images I wanted and was going to use.