post production diary

1. Post-Production Diary
March 21
For the first day of production, I decided to start by editing the poetry shots. Since I thought this one
may take the longest, I decided to start with it so I will have longer to complete it. I first started by
using my phone to draw some light not the picture since my intention is to make it seem as though
sunlight is seeping through a partially opened curtain. Since I wanted it to look like sunlight, I used a
yellow and drew in a beam shape, I then changed it to a soft light to make it see-through.
After doing this I saw that it looked very unrealistic, although this is
only a draft version it doesn’t have to look perfect, I wanted to at least
get an idea of what colours to use to make the process easier. After
this I decided to try a colour that is closer to white to see if that we
look more fitting.
After doing this I was much happier with it and feel that when
properly edited it will look fairly realistic.

2. I went on to open photoshop and began editing the final print.
As I mentioned before I wanted a beam of light to go through the image so I searched for a
transparent image of a beam of light and eventually found one that worked and added it in.
After looking at it I decided for definite that I want the light to be coming from the right side since I
know that there is a window there so I flipped it horizontally to make it face the way I wanted and I
immediately liked it.

3. After doing this I wasn’t actually sure how to move the light so that it would go fully across the
picture since keeping it at its original size would’ve looked strange. After looking at different tools for
a while I decided to use the warp tool to make it fit the way I wanted.
After looking at this I felt as though the beam was too bright since you can hardly see the words
underneath so I lowered the opacity to 85anf after this I was much happier with it.

4. Below is the final image:

5. March 22
The second image I decided to edit was the music image since I wasn’t very sure on how it was going
to look. The reason for this is because the space the photo was taken in was small so a few parts
would have to be cropped out which would make it difficult to work with.
As can be seen the original image has a lot going on in the background that’s distracting and looks
messy distracting from the intention of the image.
After cropping it I was worried about the ukulele not being in the centre but I continued editing and
hoping it would turn out well.

6. I then added a gradient so it would seem as though there is a shadow in the corner since I felt this
was a good contrast compared to the previous image.
I felt that the shadow was too dark so I turned the opacity down to 85 and was much happier with it.
I feel as though the shadow also did a god job of filling up the blank spot on the left side.

7. Below is the final image:
March 23
On this day I decided to start editing my scrapbooking image. After first looking at it I didn’t have
many editing ideas.

8. To start with I realised there’s some empty space on the right side of the image so I first of all
cropped that out.
After looking at the image for a while I decided to airbrush a shade of purple over it to give it a sort
of hazy effect and I think it does give off that effect.
Below is the final image:

9. March 24
The image I decided to edit on this day was the knitting image. I wanted this one to have a similar
feeling to the previous image since it is another talent that I find to be a little more obscure so I felt
that they fit together.

10. I proceeded to crop out the top of the image since you can see a picture that is on the wall and I
didn’t want that to be visible.
As I said before I want this image to be similar to the previous one so I added another haze over it by
air brushing over the image on a new layer but this time in a light pink.
I feel as though the colour matches the pink of the blanket well and ended up being happy with it.
Below is the final image:

11. March 25
On the last day of editing, I edited my final
image which is the photography image.
The first thing I did was crop out the bottom
of the image since material can be seen
there and it is unnecessary.

12. After this I was thinking about how the photo that is displayed is in black and white which was
honestly due to issues with the printer but I thought back to my research and how the first ever
photo was in black and white and whilst thinking about this I decided to make the final print fully in
black and white in reference to that.
Below is the final image: