Colour Correction and Building Destruction

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Damage File

This is the damage image I used within my destruction video to create a destruction within the scene. I thought it would be interesting to learn how to track a video that I have taken and add a destruction that looks 3d in the space it has. I found this really fun to do but it was also really hard. Tracking a scene perfectly is odd to do because it is actually quite hard to have a scene where using the tracking mode in after effects works properly. Even though the tracking didn't figure out its space within the scene I've still managed to add the destruction over the building and it stays attached to the building successfully. 

Darker Day With Orange Light

Road 4 from Merry Eady on Vimeo.

Bright Sunny Day

Road 3 from Merry Eady on Vimeo.

Building

Road 2 from Merry Eady on Vimeo.

Editing Colour In A Scenery

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Alternatives

After looking at the last video I did where I wanted to express the emotion through colours, I then decided to make an opposite just so I could see the contrast between the two videos. I wanted to see what emotions could be expressed through the change in colours within a single video. I wanted to experiment with the reason why people perceive things different when they have been altered differently. This allows me to understand what colours mean to people and when used together can create a whole different emotion. 


Archery 4 from Merry Eady on Vimeo.

Emotions Through Colours

This is very slight changes from the original video. What I've done is brighten everything up making the colours more intense and saturated. I thought that by showing emotion this time I would try to brighten everything up, I felt that this reflects the intensity when shooting at a competition. I've also overlaid a solid colour which I feel makes the entire video slightly better. It was a bright yellow/orange colour which I feel really adds to the whole emotion sense to the video.



Archery 3 from Merry Eady on Vimeo.

Archery And Emotions

I used the same footage but decided to make it darker in colour. I felt that by doing this it helped show a different emotion through it. If you watch the footage hard enough you see the archers getting frustrated with themselves then just getting on with the next arrow. I wanted to create a video that represents that again through the use of colours. I feel that this particular video looks better than the previous one, this is because I feel it expresses the emotion through the use of colour better. 


Archery 2 from Merry Eady on Vimeo.

Editing Colour On Video

Another way to showing emotion is through the use of a moving image. I wanted to capture the intensity of what its like to shoot at a competition, so after getting the permission of the archers I filmed them while shooting so that I could grasp the sense of emotions people go through. Between each shot you see the archer express their distress with an arrow that has gone wrong, or if they know their technique is not quite on spot. I wanted to emphasis this further through the use of colours and relate that back to the emotions they go through. 

I decided to keep the colours fairly soft because it connects well with the concentration you have within a competition. 


Archery from Merry Eady on Vimeo.

Editing Film Photography

This is another of my film photos. I like the layout of the image because it was quite a deserted place and I feel the added touch of the two people walking in the middle makes it that more interesting. I subtly altered the levels within the photo using Photoshop, I feel that by using this simple changes it really livens up the image and adds more depth to the photo. 

Editing The Photo

After looking at the original photo for this I decided later that I would try to edit it. This was just to darken things up and to make it all more refined. I feel that by doing this it has made the image feel less calming than the original because the black is coming through more than before. 

Film Photography And Showing Emotion

This particular exposure I took with my film camera I thought was very subtle with showing its emotion. It was taken with the Pentax MV1 and shot with Ilford 400 black and white film. 

I thought about editing this photo but I liked how subtle the effect has. I would say it was quite a calming image where you can see the woman reading on the bench with the birds lingering behind even quite playfully. I like how the black and white photo isn't completely shown as black and white. It has a hint of red within it which gives it quite a warming feeling. I feel like if darkened it could easily be altered to look very dark as the birds and how its so deserted could effect the mood of this still image. 

Film Photography

A form of media that I really enjoy is film photography. I feel that the colours are more definitive than if you were to use a normal digital camera and you have a sense of old fashioned photography. This particular photo was taken on a Pentax MV1 using AGFA photo. I found through my experience with using this particular film that it works at its best inside so when I take photos outside they seem a little more washy than usual. Saying this however, it still does not stop me from loving film photography and the way the photos come out when developed are inspiring. 

This first photo was taken in Brussels in Belgium. I was in a park where I saw some interesting statues that looked weathered. This inspired me because also their positioning looked quite sad. I wanted to edit the photo to emphasis the sadness and despair within the exposure. 

I have placed the original exposure so I can compare the difference between the original and the edited photo. 

Colour Contrasting with Emotion

I took a trip to Brussels in Belgium and while being there took a series of images on my digital Cannon EOS 1100D. This next image was taken in a park on a fairly average day. the sun was out but it was still a bit duller than usual. I took several images of the same shot but using different exposures and changing the iso on it to see what I could do. There was one photo that I thought looked really nice but it already had quite a high contrast on it. So instead I decided to pick a photo that didn't have such a high contrast because that wouldn't limit me on what I could do on Photoshop to change the hue for emotion. 

Here is the original image that I decided on to edit.

The first emotion I wanted to show through this image was again another bright one. One where everything bright and all seems good. 

I spent a lot of time on this photo using the clone tool. I tried to edit the trees on the right to look brighter and show more brighter colours within the image. This is because when I originally edited the photo to look bright the left side looks brighter than the right side. This gave a very unbalanced look to the image. So once I had edited out the lens leaks on the image I cloned different parts of the leaves to make it look that slightly bit more lively. I also tried to edit out some of the people within the photo. This made the image emptier but it also has given a little bit of a distorted look to it. If I were to concentrate more of developing this image further I would carefully edit out all of the people so that it doesn't look out of place but getting Photoshop to automatically take them out. 

This next image is again the opposite of the bright coloured one. I wanted to show a contrast between the two scenes so that I can compare how to show different emotion through the use of colour. I like the layout of this particular photo because it feels more emptier than the previous image I edited. This allows me to use many other concepts I could interlink with the image through colour. 

I tried to create this image to be darker and more mysterious. I feel that the sky lets me down a lot in this. I tried to darken the sky and by doing this I have ended up creating a line divide between the blue and the white. I found it quite tricky to get the sky right. I also changed the colours of the trees so that they didn't look very autumn anymore and more dark. I feel that If I were to do this image again I would add shades of brown into it so that the trees would look like they were dying and unhealthy. I could also had a filter over the top of the photo to make the sky look darker too. By doing this I feel the image would become more effective as I'm trying to give a miserable emotion though this image. 

Editing My Own Photos

I started to experiment with using the techniques within colour grading using my own images I had taken with my digital cannon EOS 1100D. I used different exposures on my camera to create a good quality photo for me to work with, this then allowed me to proceed to photoshop where I began to edit the image. 

Here I have the original image taken straight from my camera. 

I feel that the original image itself shows quite a bit of contrast already through the colours and brightness within the image. But it add a bit more emotion within the image I started ti edit it. 

The first emotion I wanted to create within the image is quite a calming one with bright colours and a sense of longing. I used the levels option along with changing the hue/saturation within the image to brighten it up. 

Just by the subtle changes of colour and levels within the image it becomes a lot more brighter. I also added an extra layer of sunset yellow and laid it on top of the image and by using the opacity and fill have created it to look like a very subtle touch to the image. The face itself looks cleaner than the original and it also adds more colour into his face making him look healthy. I also wanted to add more vibrant colours to the hair to emphasis the ginger coming through. 

I wanted to show through my images how you can really show different comparisons with images and how you can use the same image to create different emotions. So this next image I decided to go for the complete opposite from the previous one. I darkened everything and made his face paler. This makes him look a little unwell and helps the audience start to feel sad for the person in the image. 

I still wanted to emphasis the ginger in the photo, so that I don't lose what the person actually looked like. So I kept the slight vibrant ginger but also creating it darker to go along with the theme of this image. I've really paled up his face which I feel has started to make the person start to look a little unwell. I like this touch within the image because it really shows a contrast of the different emotions I could create within only one photo.