Self Portrait: Beauty & Age
Lecture Topic:
Portraiture, Issues of Beauty:
What is beauty? Cultural historical, ethical
& economic considerations, are we commodities?
http://www.ephotoartist.com/Home.jsp?digitalphotoretouching=g
Screenings:
Visiting artist:
Dan Ostrov The Faces of RPI Project, IDI Sp’06
Open in IE browser only:http://www.arts.rpi.edu/~ruiz/IDI-spring2006/final/ostrov/realization.htm#
Photo-retouching
Project:
1. Photograph yourself in three close up views: front, profile, and three quarter view. Bring
your images into Photoshop at 300 dpi 1142 long x 768 wide pixels. Work from
copies of the original images.
2. Select the front on view that you feel is the best
and retouch the image to look as “beautiful” or “handsome” as possible. Experiment with the many tools in Photoshop
including layers, filters, paint and drawing tools, colors, palettes, etc…..
3. Take the original “best” view again and this
time age your image to look at least 20 years older.
Studio skills:
Basic digital photography,(camera, lighting set
up) retouching, levels, image enhancement and correction, tonal and color
manipulation techniques, layers, masks, selecting and cutting, pasting
techniques (marquee, lasso, magic wand tools), tolerance, multiply, pen tool,
paths, inverse, color range, feather, modify, magic eraser and background
eraser, channels, saving selections to
channels.
Deliverables:
1. 5 images 1142 x 768 pixels at 300 dpi image
using RGB colors saved as jpg
2. Presentation of your 5 images using the
classroom projector. Your presentation should include a short description of at
least three new techniques you used while making the images.
Grading Criteria:
1. Assignment completed on-time.
2. Adherence to the size and file format
specifications
3. Appropriate use of Photoshop tools. (e.g. if jaggies are intended as an
aesthetic, that’s fine, but they shouldn’t be in the image because you used the
wrong image resolution for the size of the images)
4. Exploration and application of creative tools
in Photoshop.
5. Quality and clarity of class presentation
6. Quality, Realism and Believability of photo-retouching
as illustrated in your final beauty & aged images.