This week was about getting to grips with photoshop and editing images and changing the lighting and contrast of a couple images. I chose to edit a picture I took of will walking under scaffolding as the darkness needed changing and making lighter so you could see the image better and all the details.
In summary, the changes made to the photo increased the quality, as the details were easier to make out and the person in the photo wasn’t too dark.
The second image I edited was a sunset where there was a harsh difference between the sunset and the rest of the image and the contrast needed softening.
In the original, you can see that the sunset is far too bright and the rest of the image is hard to make out because of the brightness and the contrast. In photoshop, to solve this I decreased the contrast and the brightness and the hue of the image. This made the image much better as the drama of the sunset was still there but turned down to a level where you could make the rest of the image out better.
Photographic Journalism 