creating a Triptych on photoshop

First i uploaded 3 different photos 

First i cropped each of the photos with the width being 8 and the height being 10, i then pulled the crop tool from corner to corner this made them all the same size. 

Different Font Styles For Album Cover

To help me decide what sort of text i want on my album cover i decided to take a photo of madonna, edit it then add different texts to see what worked well. Below i have created 5 different ideas as to what i want my album cover to look like.

Magazine Covers

I have found a few Magazine covers that i really like, which have helped me to come up with a idea that i can create for my album cover.

i love this photo of Sarah Jessica Parker, i like the way her face fills the hole page without looking too zoomed in. I think the photo is really nice and natural and i love the way her hair is all over the place. This photo helped me to come up with a idea for my album cover, i would like to do the same sort of thing have the album cover just a face of a girl with hair all over the place but with quite heavy different make up, to make it stand out and possiably not in black and white as colour would help it to stand out more.

I love the hole layout, i really like the font at the top of the magazine. That is the sort of font i would want to use for the album cover as its bold, stands out and catches your eye. I love the photo of Rhianna, i think the flowers really make the cover stand out and bring more colour and give off the idea or summer. I dont think i would use flowers in my Photo for the album cover because i want it to just be the modle i use so everyone remember the album for her and not the flowers.

Has Digital Technology Affected Photography?

A lot of photographers are asking the question has digital technology affected professional Photography? My opinion would by yes it has affected photography, because any one can now go out and buy a high quality SLR camera and be able to talke a photography without having any or little knowlage about photography or the camera. This is then affecting professional digital Photographers as anyone can now produce high quality pictures without having the knowlage or experience they have. The more people that are able to take photos on a high tec camera the more compotion the professionals have. Making them have to work even harder to produce amasing images.
Any one can now buy then download to their computers 'Photoshop' which is a professional softwear, and be able to teach them selfs different techniques that can be produced on there. This then beguins to effect the professionals that work with photoshop everyday, as the theniques they use can be acessed to eaisly and produced.
Some people are now asking the question 'Is there any skill left in Photography?'. As i am a student studing the subject  i would say yes there is a lot of skill left. Everyone thinks Photography is really easy as to them its only taking photos, when really its the complete opposite. All photographers put a lot of time and effort in to their work to produce high quality  images. A lot of the time is spent planning the photoshoot, so it makes the final image exactly what the Photographer wants it to be like. Every photographer does a few test shoots then goes back and analyses the photos taken to find out how they can improve them, so they can go on to produce the perfect final images with nothing going wrong during the shoot. If you use film to produce photos you have to have the knowlage or how to use the camera perfectly to be able to produce decent images, you cant just go back and look at what youve done on the screen like digital, you have to have the confidence, experience and knowlage behind you to know exactly what settings is right to be confident that you have produced a decent image. Developing the photos takes a lot of skill as you have to know how to use a darkroom. Therefore i dont think Photography is as simple as what people think.

My Line Drawing

This is my original photo, i edited it on photoshop into a line drawing.

This is the photo changed into black and white and in a line drawing effect, from here i colored it in using pencils.

this is the line drawing colored in then scanned in to make it a digital file. 

From the scanned drawing i merged it into the original photo to create a finished line drawing. 

Loretta Lux

Wikipedia 

Loretta Lux (born 1969) was born in Dresden, East Germany and is a fine art photographer known for her surreal portraits of young children. She currently lives and works in Monaco.

Lux graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts in Munich in the 1990s, and debuted at the Yossi Milo gallery, New York in 2004. The show put both Yossi Milo and Loretta Lux on the map, selling out and setting prices never before seen from a new gallery.

In 2005, Lux received the Infinity Award for Art from the International Center of Photography. Her work has since been exhibited extensively abroad, including solo exhibitions in 2006 at the Fotomuseum Den Haag, The Netherlands, and the Sixth Moscow Photobiennale. Her work is included in numerous museums collections worldwide, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Fotomuseum, den Haag; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid and Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland, and National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan. She has had portfolios featured in numerous fine art magazines.

The artist executes her compositions using a combination of photography, painting and digital manipulation. Lux's work - at once alluring and self envigorating- usually features young children and is influenced by a variety of sources. She originally trained as a painter at Munich Academy of Art, and is influenced by painters such as Agnolo Bronzino, Diego Velázquez, Phillip Otto Runge. Lux also owes a debt to the famous Victorian photographic portraitists of childhood such as Julia Margaret Cameron and Lewis Carroll.

i think Loretta Lux's work is really strange, she makes young children look really creepy and doll like.  I don't know if i like her work on not. I think her works clever but i'm not sure if i like the way she makes young children look so fake and not real. 

Make up trial

I decided to experiment with different styles of make up. In the following photos i have enhanced her eyes by putting black eye shadow and false eye lashes. On the lips i've put bright pink to add a bit of color to her face.