High Key Photography - Miniature Photoshop Trick - Julia Margaret Cameron

We start the first week of the new semester with two new assignments and a profile of a great photographer of the Victorian Era.

High-Key Photography

High-Key photography is where you properly expose the subject, but you have a white or "blown-out" background.  This is often used for magazine covers and product shots.

Here is a video that explains more about the technique.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-li99i9d4w8


Miniature/Full-Size Combination in Photoshop

There is a type of lens that makes the whole world look miniature (it's called a tilt-shift lens), but we can also shrink people, or cars, or whatever with the magic of Photoshop.

The assignment you are getting this week is to do just that.  The main thing you have to remember is that the lighting, color temperature, perspective and shadows must match in the two combined images.

Here are some examples of this type of "trickery".

https://petapixel.com/2013/01/11/surreal-photoshopped-self-portraits-of-life-in-a-miniature-world/

http://www.ufunk.net/photos/inside-my-dreams/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Ufunknet-GadgetsJaponaisEtArtsInsolites+(Ufunk.net+-+Gadgets+japonais+et+Arts+insolites)

http://www.ufunk.net/photos/fiddle-oak/


Julia Margaret Cameron

Julia was a photographer well ahead of her time.  She photographed in an age where you have to mix up your own chemicals to make your negative, and everything was cumbersome and time consuming.

Here are some videos about her work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI5ZVXHgMdI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WihqL0NImqc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqnVLwRagbs

In case you doubt her influence, here is an International Photo Competition you can enter in her honor (150 years after her work).

https://www.thegalaawards.com