Blog Entry #5 - Alliespeare

For this picture I used a Canon Rebel, and shot at a shutter speed of 500 because the studio lighting made sure the shot had lots of light. I chose to Photoshop the face of Allison Clement into this famous picture because I liked how her face was similar to the original painting and I found that it was a good example of how lighting effects a photo-shopped image. I used 3-point studio lighting to gain the same effect of the original, by making sure the light was brighter on the left side of their faces to replicate the original lighting. I found this image off of the internet, and i was inspired by the popularity of the image, which I had seen many times before. Though the colours are for the most part dull, his face looked more on the yellow side so I adjusted the saturation. For this Photoshop to look more realistic, I made Allison's neck almost non-existent like the original, and used a "canvas" filter, to make the faces look as if they were painted on rather than photo-shopped in. The painting I chose for this project is called the Chandos Portrait and it isof shakespeare, who is the most famous playwright from the British Renaissance. What I like about the painting is that the author is unknown, so it is a mystery as to if it was a man or woman who painted it.