Ancillary: image creation process

I opened a new project in Adobe Photoshop 2015, which is the software that I decided to use; I chose this because I felt that it had the large variety of tools that I would require to carry out extensive editing.

The above image is the picture chosen to use from the selection that I took in the photoshoot we held a week prior to this creation. I had asked a number of people present when I began this process to look though the pictures I had taken, and to select the one that they thought was the best; out of the 5 people asked, 4 agreed that this had the best quality. I agree with them and I felt that this image was the best as it correctly focuses on the lens of the camera, which is the idea I was going for as inside the lens I am going to superimpose an image of the figure that the female sees in the photos. It is also the figure that is used at the end of the trailer, and so will link well between the poster and the trailer. 

I had taken the image with a white background so that I would easily be able to select the main image using the lasso tool and transfer it onto a different background. I wanted the background to be similar to the scenes in the trailer where the female protagonist is taking pictures in the park, so I used an image I had taken on the outdoor shoot and remove the figure from it.

 Having used the lasso tool to select the main image of the female, as shown above,  I then selected the image that I wanted to transfer it to. I decided that I didn't need any audience feedback to decide this because this was only going to be the background, and so would be the focus of the poster. I removed the image of the figure using the rectangle tool, and left the gap white; I did this because I knew that the main image would be large enough to cover this space and so it wouldn't require editing to cover it over. I created a new layer in the project file and copy pasted the image of the female on to the background. It did create the desired effect, however it was very obvious that the image was pasted, so I used the blur tool to blend the outlines of the female into the back layer slightly so that they weren't so harsh; this made it look more natural.

In order to project the image of a figure on the lens of the camera, I had to cut the figure from the same image used on the background using the elliptical tool, and pasted in onto a new layer that bought the circle to the front of all the images. I then placed this image over the top of the lens, and ensured that it fit the same size to make it look realistic. I lowered the opacity of the circular image so that the internal elements of the lens were still visible, as I wanted this to be a reflection not a solid fill. 

 I don't have an image for the next part, but the contrast between the background layer and the focal image was significant, so I altered the brightness and contrast of the background layer to remove some of the warm colours to ensure that the main image was the focal point of the poster and attention was directed towards this rather than the background, which is fairly insignificant. This introduced more grey/dull colour tones, reaching the effect I wanted. 

I don't have evidence of the final image that was used, but it will be shown in combination with the text in the next post that will explain the typography process and how this was achieved.