Week 6 – Post Production Task

I have decided to use and edit these photographs as they are ones that I have taken previously and feel that can be improved upon. Post Production is an essential stage for finalizing images because it can change the quaility of an image completely. These adjustments improve the overall aesthetic, making the image more professional and visually appealing.

For the image above I felt it would be a good image to edit as the original just felt a bit cold and dim. If I saw a picture of the first photo online it wouldn’t feel very appealing or give me that urge to visit this coffee shop so on photoshop I decreased the brightness and increased the contrast and saturation to create a warmer feel. Doing this made the light above the machine alongside the companies logo stand out a lot more and contrast the white wall behind it. Overall it just looks like a more polished photo with the outlines of letters and numbers really evident rather than just blending in.

For this image I didn’t feel it needed improving as such but instead just altered to fit a narative I was trying to write in a previous piece. The original picture is of a sunrise over the golf club at home on a day where the course was shut because of the weather so it sort of juxtaposed the mood. But after playing around with the adjustment layers I decreased the saturation and brightness but increased the contrast so it almost now creates an image that looks like the sun is setting. I think it really brings the trees to the forefront of the picture and creates a cleaner looking photo.