(Across) This image is a close up of the model, she is almost glaring into the camera. This is something I really wanted to achieve in my images as she seems moody and has an unstereotypical way of portraying red riding hood. The contrast between the red of the hood and lips really contrasts with the bright green landscape, the paleness of the models skin and the black ribbon. As for editing, this wont be a final as I don't think its striking enough. For this, I adjusted the levels of saturation, on the hood and lips, to make them stand out and be very vibrant. I also slightly raised the saturation on the green location, however, it does look over saturated. I also cut out the models face, leaving the eyes and lips, and added a Gaussian blur. This was only slight but gave the models face a smoothness and made her almost doll-like.
This image is another lightly edited shot. Here, you see more of the models outfit and specifically the cape. I really like this image for the red reflection on the models face. This gives the models cheeks a blush, this was also affected by me raising the saturation of the red in the image. I like this as the model seems very fashionable, but doesn't portray the usual views of red riding hood.
Again, I used a Gaussian blur on the face, just to stop any red marks and unsmoothness on the skin. Again, as this image isn't highly edited and attracting to me, I wont be using this as a final.
The image across shows a full body shot of the model sitting on a wall. She is looking away from the camera, this suggests she isnt aware of the cameras presence or that she doesnt care and is confident. She is wearing a cape, which drapes down the wall, this to me is really attracting as it reminds me of a curtain that blocks her feelings. It also makes me try and see shapes. The model is wearing typicaly 'goth' and dark clothing. This was used to show a different, darker side to the story. I like the way the red in this image really contrasts and is vivd compared to the dark, almost black background. This forces the focus onto the red cape and the model herself. For editing, I adjusted the levels slightly, I still wanted the image to be very dark and underexposed. I then adjusted the saturation on the red only, this also picked up the pinkness of the cheeks. I also added a slight gaussan blur on the models face, just to make it smoother and more appealing.
Here, I changed the blending mode to 'lighten'. This has made the background lighter and has increased the saturation. It has also made the detail in the two images more visable and compared to the above experiment, this is the stronger. However, I am uncertain of those two images working together and feel like I need to experiment with image types, models positions and even blending modes and opacity changes.
Here, I wanted to try adding a red hue to the images. This was to express danger and to also combine and portray the theme of red riding hood. However, I found that the red made the image lose some of its impact on the viewer and that I wanted to achieve the contrast between the red cape and the dark green location. I experimented with changing the hue to blue and green just to see the difference in images. This really reminded me of the work by Andy Warhol, but as I have previously used this technique I decided not to expand.
Like the red, I prefered the original coloured iamge more. The same reason applies here, I wanted to achieve the contrast between the red cape and the dark green location.
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