Portrait

For this assignment, we were to take all the imformation we had learn about touching up portrait photos and apply them to portraits we took of people. We learned about the healing brush, spot healing tool, patch tool, and layer masks.

My final photo was this image I took of my friend Alex. He has plenty of blemishes, and the photo was prime for editing and making into a nice portrait.

I used the Camera Raw function to first fix the lighting in the photo. I then took it into photoshop and began editing away the blemishes on his face and fixing his glasses a little. Alex happens to have many skin conditions that end with his skin being quite blemished, so I had a lot to work with and a lot to fix.

The original image.

I think I achieved the end goal of this assignment. With a fully edited image that looked much better than the original, it completed that goal easily.
I kept the image simple with good lighting so it made editing easier. I also kept in mind composition rules: rule of thirds, and how much of the image the subject is taking up. As he is placed in the right third of the image and is taking up around 75% of the image, he is in prime position for this image.

One of the biggest issues I had with the image was figuring out what really looked good. To fix this, I talked to my subject and asked him what he wanted to do. With that, I was given new inspiration and incorporated composition rules to produce a good looking, interesting photo.