Photography- Producing our FreakorUnique images

Images for my advert:

In this lesson I created an advert by shooting pictures of 6 objects and I had to use different equipment to do this such as a camera, tripod, red head, white background (paper), and a light stand.
The red head is a bright light which is shone on the prop you are taking the picture of and it can get very hot when it is on for a while so I had to turn it off for about 5 minutes to cool it down before I could take it off the light stand. The paper is used as a white background to make it easier to crop the image when you are using photoshop. 

My objects were:

• Spongebob
• A shoe
• Little toy dinosaur
• A camera
• Kit kat bar
• Eyes of a person

The first image I took was a Kit Kat bar and this is going to be use this for my own advert.

 The second object I shot a picture of was a little crocodile key ring which could give my advert a more cartoony look.

 The third object I used was my own camera which will be used as an object at the background.

 The fourth object I used was a Spongebob toy and this will be used in my advert to give it a more fun and strange look.

Fifth image I took an image of was a shoe. This image will be the main object I will advertise as it will be in the center while the other objects will be smaller and at the sides. 

To make these images brighter and better, I will need to go on photoshop and use levels and curves tool to make the background white and to make the object stand out and to make the colour of it brighter or darker.

Using these objects we had to create our own freaky advert on photoshop and I chose these props because I thought it would go well with the advert and it would give it a cartoon effect and also they would make my advert stand out.

The location of the shooting was at the corner of the room in the class room where we set up our equipment. 

The images blow are the ones I photo-shopped and made the background white and made it stand out more.

For this last image I used the curves tool to make the background different so I can see what it does to the images. In this image it shows how I made the image when using the curves tool.

I made the background look pink and purple and I made the camera have a lot of contrast.

Both of the photoshop tools I used were new to me so I had no idea how to use them but I asked for help when I did not know what I was doing and eventually I learned how to use both curves and levels tool.

I thought the shooting will take about 10 minutes but it took longer than that. It took about 30-40 minutes as we had to set the camera right, focus the camera on the image, and shoot more than one image of the same object which we did just in case the first image was blurry and we didn't notice it.

What I would do differently next time would be shoot the same object several times from different angles because they might work better for my advert.

What I thought went well was the shooting because I know what techniques to use when taking a picture. For example, before you take a picture, you need to hold the shutter button half way down to focus the image on the object, when the green rectangle on your object appears you then press the shutter button all the way down.

I used many different editing techniques on photoshop to create the advert such as the cloning tool to clone the third eye on spongebob, pen tool to crop around the objects and place then on the same page, text box to create the two texts, blur to make the colourful spongebob blurry which gives it a ghostly effect, black & white to make most of the objects look creepy, curves tool to make the colourful spongebob look more yellow that it was when I took the image, and levels tool.

What I found difficult was photo-shopping the images as this is new to me and I am not familiar with different things I can do on it to make my image better and I sometimes need to start again as I go wrong many times. 

What I would do differently would be working quicker on editing my objects to have more time to think about what kind of advert I am going to make as I had to rush that bit and quickly think of a title. 

Using these objects I went on photoshop and used different tools to make the images look freaky.