Monday, February 23, 2015

Double Exposed Portraits

Portrait photography, or portraiture, is photography of a person or a group of people displays the expression, personality and the mood of the subject. Portraits relate to profile pictures because profiles are side shots of your face and a little bit of your body as the Double Exposed Portraits below show.

Double exposure images are made by simply getting two images of nature or anything that represents you and a profile picture of yourself, then you go to Adobe Photoshop and simply click on File > Scripts > Load Files Into Stack. Then you click on the Dodge Tool and go around your profile image and on 50% opacity, you trace along the edge of yourself on your profile picture and keep going until your profile of JUST YOU is the only thing showing on that image. Then you Rotate, Resize, and Crop by clicking on Shift > 8.5 in x 11" inches Resolution 300 px/in . To access Blend Mode, Double Click Layer > Blend Mode > Screen, and to adjust the Color Tone, click Layer > New Adjustment Layer > and Explore !

My two pictures represent that I stand out and when something happens, it affects everything . What shows that I stand out, is my Red Hibiscus Flower. I chose this picture because these flowers really called my name and were screaming for a picture so I just looked for a pretty good angle to have some shadows into it. The image that shows that my actions affect my self and others is the Water Rippling. I took this picture at Loop Road and I just tried my best then I saw the ripples and I took the shot. I think I could've gone further into customizing these Adjustment Layers.
Double Exposure ( Draft )

Multi Exposure ( Final )