Research

Erik Johansson

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Erik Johansson was a full time photographer and retoucher from Sweden based in Berlin, Germany. He works on both personal projects and commissioned projects and creates street illusions. He says, “He doesn’t capture moments, he captures ideas”. To Erik, photography is just a way to collect material to realize the ideas in his own mind. Erik gets inspired by all the things around him in his daily life, and all the types of things he sees. To Erik, every new project is a challenge and his goal to realize them as realistic as possible. 

Infrared Photography

(Write Up)

What is Infrared Photography?

Infrared photography allows photographers of all their skills and the opportunity to explore the brand-new world. 

http://photographylife.com/introduction-to-infrared-photography#ixzz2ElYwEudv

What is the History of Infrared Photography?

Until the early 20th century it wasn't possible to take infrared pictures because silver halide emulsions were not sensitive to longer wavelengths. Infrared sensitive photographic plates were first developed during World War 1 in The United States. Infrared photography became popular in the late 1930's when proper film was introduced.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_photography

History of Infrared Photography:

Infrared photography was develop in 1910 by an American physicist named Robert Williams Wood. Infrared light was discovered in the 1800s by Sir Frederick William Herschel. 

http://www.lifepixel.com/infrared-photography-primer/ch1-development-of-infrared-film

http://www.lifepixel.com/infrared-photography-primer/ch1-history-of-infrared-photography

How Is Infrared Photography Achieved?

The infrared images are achieved in many different steps. The first thing I had to do was to take an image of something and put it in Photoshop. For this section of the project, there was only about six steps to complete this process. The first step that I had to do was to put this image in Photoshop. the next step was to change the colours of all the pictures. After that I had to click the Channel Mixer in Photoshop and you get to adjust the slider. After that I had to change the hue and saturation and I had to reduce the the saturation and then adjust the hue a bit. The next step after that was to use the Photo Filter and change the Density of the image. The final step was to finish editing all your images.

http://photo.tutsplus.com/tutorials/post-processing/creating-an-infrared-effect-to-photos-using-photoshop/

Infrared Photography

Location: Clayton Heights Secondary

Image #1

Image #2

Image #3

The Personal:

I worked with this source http://photo.tutsplus.com/tutorials/post-processing/creating-an-infrared-effect-to-photos-using-photoshop/. I used this site because it made it easy to understand and create these images. I made these my own images because I put a little bit of my own ideas into it. I manipulated the tutorial to make my photos looks better then before. I followed all the steps on the site, but I also added more hue and saturation to make my images look much better. I learned that using infrared photography makes people start thinking about the images and what's actually going on in the images. I personally took these images in the back of the school near the pond and one was actually taken of the pond. 

Artist Statement:

The first step of this process was to take the images. All three of these images were taken near the pond at the back of the school but the first image was taken of the pond. Then used the handy shortcut and press CMD/CTRL + J. Then I inverted the colours of the image by hitting CMD/CTRL + I. Then I had to Select Layer, New Adjustments, and Channel Mixer and adjust the layers panel. Then in the channel mixer I selected the colour red and moved the red slider to 0. Then I moved the blue slider to +100 and then select the blue channel and this time I to do the opposite. I increased the red to +100 and move the blue to 0. Then, for the green channel I just had to double check that the green slider is on +100. Then I had to go back and Select Layer, New Adjustment Layer, and Hue and Saturation. Then I selected the red channel and reduced the saturation down so that the result is almost grey. Then I adjusted the hue slider until I got the hint of yellow in my image. I also found that increasing the lightness up to around +50 helped me out as well. Then I went back to Select Layer, New Adjustment Layer, and Photo Filter and had to add a cool blue photo filter. I used one of the default cooling filters at the density of about 23%. Then I simply created a new layer and then applied my image to it. The theme is outdoors and it's played throughout the image because if it wasn't outdoors then there wouldn't be any trees in the image. I chose this theme because outdoors always has a beautiful scenery.