David LaChapelle

David LaChapelle is a photographer and video/commercial/film director who works in the fields of fashion,advertising and fine art photography. He is noted for his unique and often humorous style of work. Here are a examples of his photography.

This picture is of a fighter. He has got blood on his hands and a black eye. I think this really captures the brutality of violence.

This is a photo of a surgeon who apears to have a face dangleing from her hand. Her clothes are tight and slightly seethough. There is the medical instruments in front of her which makes you think that shew has just performed a face transplant or something along those lines.

Edit

This was the original below.



My edit is below. I made it shorter in height to give it a more empty vast landscape effect to it. I also made the sky darker and also the ground. I think that I have completed this task well and since I have made the same landscape look as though it is a darker more gloomy place I have succeded in editing it with respect to the project title.

Levels

Using The Cropping Tool

I can use the cropping tool to improve my photograph by using ‘the rule of thirds’. This consists of dividing the photo in to 9 equal squares by drawing two equally spaced horizontal lines and two equally spaced vertical lines. You should make it so that the components of the image are constructed along these lines or their intersections. If an image composition agrees with these points, this supposedly creates more tension, energy and interest than just making it the centre of the photo.

When making my cropping decisions I do this to hopefully make my photograph more appealing.


Using levels

A histogram is a chart, which shows the amount of each tone that are currently making up an image. The y-axis is the amount of pixels there are. So the higher the reading on the chart the more pixels there are of that tone. If a histogram goes from one end of the chart to the other then there is a full range of colours in the image. This is from 0(black) to 255(white).

An under exposed image is an image that has a gap at the white end of its tonal range. This means not much light was present when taking the picture. An over exposed image is the opposite with a gap at the black end of the spectrum. It again doesn’t have a full tonal range. A correctly exposed image means it has a full range of tones and isn’t too slumped at either side of the histogram.

The difference between high-key image and a low-key image is that the tones in the images are clumped either towards the right or the left when you look at their levels. High-key images have tones that are clumped to the right and low-key images have tones that are clumped to the left. This may not be because the photograph was taken badly but it might be that the scene contained a lot of light naturally. In either case the images still need to have a full tonal range in order to be successful.

You can use levels to improve your images by resetting the black and white points of an image so that it has a full range of tones. You can change the channel as well so instead of working with red green and blue you can work with just one of them individually which would give you the ability to adjust the different tones of that individual colour depends on what you set it to.

I can use different selection tools to work on different areas of my image. I can use the ‘magnetic lasso’ tool. This lets me select the part of the image I want by sticking a line to the edge of a type or shade of colour. This makes it incredibly easy to use as it saves a lot of time and effort.