David La Chapelle

David La Chapelle is a photographer and video/commrcial/film director who works in the field of fashion, advertising and fine art.

He has published four books on his art work. La Chapelle also directed Elton Johns show 'he red piano' in Las Vegas. He has also directed adverts for major brand companies such as Tommy Hilfiger, Nokia, Diesel, Burger King. In 2006 also he directed 'Romeo and Juliet', also directed the season one of 'Desperate Houswives'.

David La Chapelle has also won many awards for his work :

- 1995 Best new photographer of the year.

- 1996 Photographer of the year.

- 1997 Art directors club award

- 1998 Best cutting edge essay and style photography

- 2000 Won best video

- 2006 Presented with GLAAD's Vito Russo award for outstanding contributions toward eliminating homophobia

La Chapelle’s work has been described as surrealist, shocking and ironic. His use of celebrities

exaggerates aspects of their personalities and their personal lives, I have found some work to prove this.

Negative image

Here is my original image and I will be turning it into a negative image, first I will use the hue and saturation tool and saturate the colour out of the photo right down to 0. Then I will be using the invert tool and finally turn the image into black and white.


Here I have a print screen of the first step, this is where I have used the hue and saturation tool and have saturated the colour out of the image. It doesnt look too different to the original , this shows that the original photo doesnt have a very rich colour pattern.

This is the final image and this is where I have used the invert tool and changed all the black colour of the image into white and all the white colour of the image into black. I have now achieved my aim by turining my original image into a negative.

Hue and Saturation

This is my original image that I am going to be editing. I am going to select a part of the image and intensify the colour, use the colourize tool on hue and saturation.


This is my second image and as you can see I have tried to intesify the colour of the sky to a light blue, this hasnt planned out to well as it has got a clear cut throught some of the see making it look like it has been edited to much. I didnt this using the 'magic wand' tool high lighting the area I wanted to change.


This is my final image and in this as you can see I have been playing around with the hue and saturation tool making it lighter, saturating the colour out and fiddling about with the hue just to make a type of image that showed the effects of using the tool.

Using the crop toll and levels

I am going to crop this image to try and make a better focual point of the photo.


This is what I decided to crop out of the image to make to the focus on the horizon on top of the moutains.

Cropping tool

You can use the cropping tool to improve your photo by cutting out bits of the photo you don't want. for example you could have a tree to one side that you don't want and you can crop that out of the picture. You have to consider though when using the cropping tool is that is it going to really make an improvement on your photograph and that you are not actually taking out something that is eye catching out or meaningful to the photo. Also always save the original first so if it goes wrong you can always go back.

Levels

A histogram is a graphic representation of the range of tones from dark to light in a photo. Some digital cameras include a histogram feature that enables a precise check on the exposure of the photo.

An under-exposed image is one that has to much exposure to light

An over-exposed image is one that doesn't have enough exposure to light

A correctly exposed image is one that has the right balance of light

The difference between a 'high key' and 'low key' image is that a high key is a bright picture with low contrast and a low key image is a lot darker and also have a high contrast.

Levels can improve your image by adjusting the brightness and contrast if its not right, and improve tonal range and remove flat spots.

You can use the magnetic wand which you go around the area you want to edit , which makes another layer and shows you where you are working.

photoshop first image

In my first photoshop image I played around with using different backgrounds and colours. I also used some tools for example I used the magnetic wand to select certain parts of the image I wanted to edit. As you can see I changed the image to a bit of a blur and also was able to copy one colour of skin and put it over another for example I put clear skin over a mole, This was my first time using photoshop and I expect the quality of my images to get better and hopefully look at things like layers etc.