Make real objects look realistic, surreal or magical with photography.
Photography can be used to document reality, enhance or highlight the look of a person, object or scene, or create an image of the fantastic and surreal. It is widely used for editorial projects, photojournalism, fashion, portraits, sports and various occasions like weddings, birthdays and other special events. Professional photography requires the use of various shooting techniques that best fit the needs of specific projects. Prior to submission, a photographer uses an image-editing program to polish and finalize the photo.
High-speed Shooting
The shutter is a part of the camera that covers the opening, which is used to allow light to pass through the image being shot. Depending on the camera's shutter speed, the shutter can open and close fast, slow or anything in between. If the shutter is set to a slow speed, which is also referred to as high speed, it can make fast-moving objects appear blurred with a ghost-like effect.
For instance, when taking a night shot of a busy highway from a high position, secure your camera on a tripod to avoid unnecessary movement, then set the camera with a slow- or high-speed shutter. Using this high-speed shooting technique, the photo you get shows long and surreal-looking light flashes on the highway instead of actual cars passing by. The rest of the shot with non-moving objects remain the same, but they actually look much brighter than usual because this technique allows more light to pass through the camera.
Exposure Manipulation
Exposure manipulation can be done in a variety of ways, such as setting the shutter at a high speed, changing the ISO setting to a higher or lower value or adjusting the aperture setting to make the camera opening smaller, larger or completely open. Any of these changes affect how much light passes through the camera to expose the image.
By either overexposing or underexposing the subject of the photo, you will be able to make the subject look normal or surreal. For instance, you can shoot a panoramic day shot of a beach from a high position, but it can look like a weird night shot when you significantly lower the exposure settings.
White Balance Experimentation
The white balance, also called color balance, refers to the image's color temperature. The process involves the adjustment of color intensities, mainly the primary colors, to render an image's specific colors correctly --- the way the camera sees it. This allows the changing of the overall color scheme and mixture of color elements seen in the image. The camera's white balance should be set according to a base color, usually white, prior to the shoot. After this, the camera renders the colors in your subject according to its base color.
If your base color is not balanced with the ambient lighting of your shooting environment, for instance, you use a tungsten balance setting on a cloudy day, the shot will look unusually blue. This enables a photographer to experiment with the white balance to shoot images with realistic or unrealistic colors.
Post-image Manipulation
Post-image manipulation allows the application of specific changes in the quality and other elements of an image. In film photography, manipulation can be performed to the actual negatives to create special effects. In digital photography, image-editing software, such as Photoshop, can be used.
Post-image manipulation allows users to create multiple exposure effects where two different shots are combined; apply solarization, blurring or smudging effects; change the image's hue, saturation or contrast; reverse highlights and shadows; make color replacements or enhancements; and add or remove certain elements from your original photo to make it look more surreal.
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