Project Three: digital photography and adobe photoshop

For the project I took 20 photos using different settings on my digital camera. Then changed 5 of the photos using photoshop. These are the the original photographs. I chose to photograph my boyfriend for all twenty photos as I felt I would be able to capture him in a variety of places and randomly as he is the person I see the most. Some of the photographs were taken whilst abroad, and I used them because I had used different settings on my camera for them e.g. beach and sunlight which I could not use in the UK as the weather is unpredictable.
























These are the photos I changed on photoshop. I have only altered the colour on all of them to keep the quality of the images and to keep them looking quite simple.

Richard Avedon photography

Richard Avedon said of his photography: "A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks."
• Richard Avedon shot the Paris collections for almost 40 years, and was staff photographer for Vogue from 1966 until 1990
• Richard Avedon became the first ever staff photographer for The New Yorker in 1992, at the age of 69

From the start of his career, Richard Avedon's name became synonymous with fashion as well as portraiture. He photographed everyone from Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton to Marilyn Monroe, Dorothy Parker and the Duchess of Windsor as well as a lot of "unknown" people. Known for bringing the fashion models of the day, including Suzy Parker and Sunny Harnett, to life, Richard Avedon injected a previously unseen vibrancy into the medium of fashion photography.

Mario Testino photography

• Mario Testino was born in 1954 in Lima, Peru
• He came to London in 1976, took a flat in an abandoned hospital near Trafalgar Square, and began selling portfolios (for £25, including hair and make-up), to wannabe models
• It was 1997 when he photographed the late Diana, Princess of Wales for her famous Vanity Fair cover

Mario Testino makes anyone he photographs look the best they ever will. That's part of his magic. The rest is in making the taking of the photo as much fun as possible, using his trademark Peruvian encouragement.
His style has been described as "luxury realism", but he resists analysing it too much. When he photographs clothes they look so good they actually sell.

He has also become a semi-royal photographer, chosen by the Prince of Wales and Princes William and Harry.

Helmut Newton photography

Helmut Newton led the ultimate glamorous life. He lived in the Chateau Marmont in the winter months, to keep the cold and gloom at bay, befriending Billy Wilder, Dennis Hopper and Robert Evans. He was married to fellow photographer Alice Springs, quirkily named after a pin was placed in a map.
Newton arrived in Paris in a white Porsche, was hired immediately by French Vogue, commissioned by Playboy, had a heart attack at 50, and lived in Monte Carlo. Then in a final fling - or what Karl Lagerfeld poetically described as "his last picture, taken by himself", he crashed his Cadillac on Sunset Boulevard aged 83, on January 23 2004.

Nick Knight photography

• Born in London in 1958, Knight studied photography at Bournemouth & Poole College of Art and Design. He graduated with a distinction in 1982
• In 1985 his first book, Skinheads, won him the Designers and Art Directors Award for Best Book Cover
• In the late Eighties, Yohji Yamamoto's art director Marc Ascoli commissioned Nick Knight for 12 successive catalogues - at a time when Yamamoto campaigns were among highly admired
• In 1990, he was Commissioning Picture Editor for i-D, working alongside Terry Jones (former art director of British Vogue and co-founder of i-D)
• In 1993, Knight made fashion history by adapting ring-flash photography to capture Linda Evangelista for a landmark, post-grunge cover of British Vogue
• Nick Knight has shot advertising campaigns for Jil Sander, Louis Vuitton, Calvin Klein, Yves Saint Laurent, Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen and Christian Dior. He has also shot record covers for David Bowie, Paul Weller, George Michael and Massive Attack

Nick Knight is top of the celebrities' photographer wishlist. His reputation for pushing boundaries technically and creatively at every opportunity and being at the forefront of innovation is deeply attractive. He has worked on a range of often controversial issues during his career - from racism, disability, ageism, and more recently fat-ism. He continually challenges conventional ideals of beauty.