Photoshop - Blur and Sharpen Tools

The top photo is the original image and the bottom one is the one a experimented the blur and sharp tool on Photoshop with. I first used the blur tool to blur off the background with an 85 

%  strength blurriness on the mountains with the hills i decreased the blur tool to 50% and then i blurred off the front of the image but i used a 33% strength so it fits and makes the image professional. I used the sharp tool to sharpen the church in the village and used a 18% strength otherwise if it was to strong it wouldn't make the photo look professional and would be too strong for the image. 

Here i have edited a photo of my choice and i chose a football match image because it is perfect to blur out players and focus on the player on the ball and the ball. I done a similar process to this with the first photo i first used the blur tool to blur out both players behind the player closest to the ball, using a 80% strength blurriness and then finally used the sharp tool to sharpen the front player a bit more using a 20% strength.

Ideas for photoshop images will be crawley in a 1000 years or have cralwey set in a Lord of the rings set theme.

Adobe Photoshop

Here i had to edit Alan Sugar onto a pile of sugar by using Adobe Photoshop. First i had to open both images onto Photoshop. using the lasso to cut around Alan Sugar head to put onto the pile of sugar, but before i feathered his head to 5 to give it a transparent look around the head. Then moving Sugar's head onto the pile of sugar then decrease the size of the image to fit move heads on the sugar.

Hot Keys

Lasso Tool = L key

Quick Mask = Q key

Copy layer with ctrl, cmd and J

Scale layer with ctrl, cmd and T

Here i have done another photoshop edit, this time i have used a baby picture and cut out its body and used a random person and cut out his his and then put his head on the baby's body to create this image.

Robert Capa

Robert Capa, famous for decisive moment in photography and was a WAR Photographer and was in action in World War 2, Vietnam, Spanish Civil War and the Chinese Resistance to Japan. Working for 'Life' Magazine, Capa was paid to go into action, not to kill but to capture moment during the wars.

 

World War II

During the World War II Capa went into the most famous event in history 'D-Day Landing' and was in the boats that landed first. Capturing 106 photo's most of them were  and was left with only 11 also known as 'The Magnificent Eleven', because Life Magazine had a deadline to publish the photo's, devloping the photo's in a london caused 95 photo's being destroyed. 'The Magnificent Eleven' were truely amazing has it showed the landing of D-Day, capturing soldiers running onto the beach.

Tony Vaccaro

Tony Vaccaro was bored on December 20th 1920, in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. The American solider/photographier was in action during World War II (1944-45), while going to war Vaccaro took a camera so while he was fighting he would take shots of enemy tank's been blowed up, dead soldiers ect.

Vaccaro had to go into battle and could take shots, he got his first job as a photographer for the U.S. authorities stationed at Frankfurt and then with the weekend, the sunday supplement of the U.S. Army newspaper Stars and Stripes, Until 1949, Vaccaro photographed throughout Germany and Europe, documenting post-war life.Vaccaro would get much closer into the action to get his shot's unlike Capa, as you can see between their photos on here.

Capa and Vaccaro Comparison 

Both photographer's risked their life during World War II to get the shots we see today. Capa was recognised more because he worked more LIFE magazine and more people would of seen his photography work getting published, where as Vaccaro was working for a little newspaper company and fighting in the war, but I think Vaccaro's photo's will be remembered the most as his world war II images touched most peoples hearts and will be part of history as there aren't many photos of world war II

Photo Journalism - Henri Cartier Bresson

Photo Journalism is a captured moment and which communicates to the public and telling news through photography.

Henri Cartier Bresson

- Why is he famous
   He captured decisive moments in life and his most famous shot was the photo in Paris, where a man is jumping into a puddle and Bresson captured it the moment as he was about to land into it. Also that shot represented Europe jumping into the unknown as the man representing Europe. Also he is the 'God Father' of decisive moment and changed the ways of photography.


 


- Why is his work significant in Photojournalism?
    Because he captured the decisive moments in life and would get into a position where there wasn't life but then waited for life to come to him

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- Find and upload to your blog some work of theirs
- What Camera/Technique did he use

Starting Photography at Crawley College will be a new experience to me from last years Photography lesson. Last year I studied portraits and landscape photography and ended up getting a C for it, but this year should be an exciting year. Using Photoshop to improve or add detail to the photo, but this year I still want to continue studying portrait's as it's an interesting topic to do and it can produce inspiring images. I used a canon 600d as my camera last year and i produced some great shots from it.