Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I. Case Study – Jessica spHS 9 slides Copyright © Kenji Tachibana

Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Case Study: spHS J essica’s Story: Good story with variations (story angles). Close to ‘transparent technique’, nice composition variations (though little tight), and high but good form lighting. Nice shadow under the chin but no obvious catch light… 01_lighting02_Best03_Next04_Least

Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Case Study: spHS J essica’s Story: Not Best Best is better than next in terms of composition but not expression. And the background is too close, dark, and too busy in both. The Least choice is the Best in terms of composition, background, and overall story. The expression in the top 2 is pleasantly safe. But the expression in the Least choice is more interesting and fits with the costuming. 01_lighting02_Best03_Next04_Least

Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Case Study: spHS L ighting Shot: Except for the under exposure, it gives us good information. I have corrected both the framing and light source position in the scene. The reframing is shown with the white rectangle. And the light source position is indicated with the yellow oval. The better exposure is shown to the right.

Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Case Study: spHS L ab Work: Photoshop Image adjustment process. It goes through steps starting with adding the cropFrame layer. Then the basic lab Work is applied. Then the adjustments becomes more subtle with mask painting. Then area ‘burns’ are applied to bring out the subject.

Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Case Study: spHS L ab Work: Advanced The description ‘advanced’ may be misleading. The process itself is quite straight forward. It’s done with elliptical selection, feathering selection, and brightness adjustment. In the example images, nothing else changed except for the eye. And once the eye is brighter, the small area of catch light becomes more obvious.

Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I L ab Work: Advanced It’s referred to as advanced but like most Photoshop work, it’s relatively easy ‘move’. In the example images, nothing else changed except for the eye. And once the eye is brighter, the small area of catch light shows up… Case Study: Jessica’s self portrait

Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Case Study: Exhibit worthy spHS T ight Layout: spEnv Jessica has a very good start on her spEnv shoot. In her case the next stage shoot is only a matter of Increasing image area as indicated by the 4:3 shape white line rectangle.

Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I Case Study: Exhibit worthy spHS S ummary: Jessica has a very early start on her final project. The seed for the final project image is usually born during the next psEnv assignment shoot. Early birth is good. That will give us more time to massage it up to the exhibit worthy image quality. And it becomes an excellent example for the rest of the class to emulate… Jessica has given us a lot more than a seed image. It’s almost Library Show Ready with her Least choice…

Teacher: Kenji Tachibana Digital Photography I x End