Henri Cartier Bresson

He was famous for creating some great decisive moments using one of the first hand held cameras made by Leica. Before that you couldn't really take photos fast enough to capture a split second in time. His work has helped us today to capture stories while they are happening, newspapers get to capture a story as it is happening to visually describe a story. Learning about his work has made me appreciate the story that can happen in a frozen moment in the tiniest fragments of time.

Here is a great link I found brilliant while looking for some of his photographs:  http://erickimphotography.com/blog/2011/08/22/10-things-henri-cartier-bresson-can-teach-you-about-street-photography/

Here are some of his photographs:

Film Poster Re-Edit

I re-edited the poster after I was told it wuld look more professional with the logo and rating at the bottom.

Film Poster

This was interesting to edit, to make the smoke I drew simple squiggles with a white paint brush on a new layer, smudged the action and changed each colour the erased over the front fingers.

I cut around each characters photograph and added them to a individual layer. I actually used Microsoft Paint for the credits. I added the rating and the logo in Photoshop.

My Self Portrait

These are my original photographs, the landscape photograph I did not take but I edited it which can be seen by my later post.

 I cut around each photograph of myself and put the front me as the top later.

As I had already cut around myself I could delete the original background and put the landscape photograph in its place.

Our brain storm sheet

Audience Links

 Here are some links of some sites with pictures advertising days out for families.

http://www.dayoutwiththekids.co.uk/family-fun/Sea_Life_London_Aquarium/295

http://www.kew.org/visit-kew-gardens/garden-attractions-A-Z/bee-garden.htm

http://www.dairylandfarmworld.com/

Good Poster, Bad Poster

This is a good poster of a great film. The wording at the very top gives you a feel and a slight explanation to what its about. It has pretty much all of the characters in the center, with obviously the main characters at the front. Just under the picture it has the title of the film written in a style that also give you more of a feel to what its about. At the bottom has who is in it and who made it, to help reference people to people that might recognize their other works.

This is a poster from an iconic film and my personal favorite, but I have put it as a bad poster. The main picture has got a lot to do with the film but it gives nothing to you. Just under the basic title without capital letters, all it gives away is its from a terrifying best seller. Above the title are three actor names which can draw you to the movie but you will have no idea what parts they play at all. At the very bottom is actor names and the rest of of the main people behind the film.

Blur and Sharpen Tool

With the image below I was asked to create a depth of field to made a large area look like a macro photograph. I blured the back-ground and fore-ground and sharpened up the mid-ground.

This is the original image:

This is the edited result:

 I used a 180px brush for the blur tool to blur the back-ground and fore-ground with 75% strength the a 40% strength for the edges of the blur. I sharpened the mid-ground using a 149px brush with 35% strength. I also used image auto-tone the auto-colour then cropped the right and bottom edge slightly.

Photoshop Patch Heal Tool

With this, I cut around parts of the wall that needed changing. This was the original image.

I removed bits of concrete in the wall.

Photoshop Spot Heal Tool

Today I was given this image to edited with the spot heal tool.

I removed a few birds with this tool.

Missing Posts

Genius of photography questions.