Image 1
For my first image, I began by cropping my dog’s nose out of the frame, allowing the photo to focus more on the seating area and place the chair completely to one side.
The images taken in my conservatory had a heavy orange tint to them, something I originally wanted to alter, however as I did I ended up preferring it with an exaggerated warmer tone, and kept the orange tones even higher than before. This created a more comforting feel to the image, removing this tint only made the image colder.
I also used the auto white balance feature, where I used the eyedropper tool to select a neutral colour. This made my image slightly less saturated by the conservatory light, and softened the brightness without loosing the integrity of the natural light. Increasing the contrast and brightening up the highlights for more detail, I then set this as a custom preset for the rest of my pictures.
Image 2
I used the preset from my first image in an attempt to match each image, however due to this photo being taken on a different day, the lighting was cooler. To alter this, I simply increased the saturation of the image until I felt to matched the image before. I also increased the highlight brightness in order to bring back some detail in her nose and eyes.
Image 3
After using the preset, I decided to remove the image on screen. My mum was watching TV as I took this photo, so to make it look like the screen is blank, I cut out the screen in photoshop, and placed the image of a blank screen behind the layer. I then darkened the screen and added grain, helping it to blend in.
Images 4-6
For each of the above photos, editing was rather simple. Because of the preset I created when altering my first image was on an image with the same camera settings, lighting, and day, It matched rather well. I cropped the images to match the rule of three, and with slight alterations to exposure and brightness where I felt necessary, these images were rather simple to edit.