Salon Shoot!

Here my friend who is a hairdresser wanted me to help her shoot some photos to enter into a Loreal composition which involves a lot of photoshop work to make the image like a front cover of a magazine.

I could wait to shoot for her as this was all new for me to do, using heavy photoshop. I used one big flash gun using the umbrella to reflect light onto the model. The photo below is the original image I took with my Canon 600D camera.

After researching tool and techniques on photoshop I began to edit the image as you can see a huge difference, you can see how much editing has gone into this with getting rid of the frizzy hair around her forehead and around the outside of the hair, and with airbrushing the skin to make it look smooth as well as bringing the detail of the eyes and colour of the purple hair.

Please let me know what you think, as I love to hear about you feedback, sorry its only a short blog but I really wanted to show you guys this image.

Remember to check more about me at - http://millichocochips.blogspot.co.uk

Emily Millichip Photography.

Creative Landscape Of My Hometown

This project is all about creative landscape, making the original image, which was just a river with a view of the country side of multiple of beautiful Autumn colours. I added the bridge, the lamppost, the gates under the bridge, green plants on the right bottom corner and the houses and church on top the hill. 

I have played on Photoshop before but not to this level and discover a number of skills you can to manipulate an image to create such a unique image. People freak out on there first time with Photoshop like it there world worst enemy, I was one of them but once you discover what tools does what and how to create the image in your head on Photoshop you start to amaze yourself and discover actually Photoshop is awesome. I am not the best Photoshop editor but I am still learning and finding out how tools still work. People say how do you learn Photoshop? Best way is just grab a image you really like and do not be afraid to really go to town with the image playing with every tool you can find to see how they work, yes there are tutorials on the web and they do help out if you follow the steps, so there are a number of way how you can learn. I find the more experience you have on Photoshop the more helpful it will be for you.

   

 First I researched a number of artist and photographers that used landscapes or cityscapes in a creative manor just to get some ideas what I wanted to create for my creative landscape the image above I created this effect using a number of artist style such as, David Hockney with the jigsaw looking cubism style and Peit Mondrian with the boarding of black around the edges of each section of the cubism.
Then putting my own style using the colour balance tool on Photoshop to make each section a different shade of colour which I find a bit of Picasso style showing cubism which I did not intend to do but having a play can lead you to better ideas or in fact a pleadable image.
At this stage of my progress I was happy with what I created but was not 110% satisfied and knew I could improve on the photo but was struggling to find out what was my photo missing?

After going back to my research board and the list of my favourite artist I then began to research Andy Warhol pop art style and got so excited to try the pop art style out on Photoshop and loved how it turned out and how it show in some areas a strong definition of pop art and other places you can still see its a photo more then a painting. I am so please how the photo I created turn out and I am going to use this image as 1 of my finals even though this was meant be a play on Photoshop. So 1 final image down 2 more to go!

I would like to say thank you for reading my blog and any questions on about this image feel free to comment and a cheeky follow, you will have to bare with me as I am really new to the blogging world and so far I am loving it. I also want to hear your feedback about my creative landscape, what do you think of it? what do you like about it? What do you dislike about it?

Thanks again for your time!

Emily Millichip Photography.

Preview Photography Work.

Juggling Balls!

This photo was taken in my first year of my photography course, on a project called Movement. Capturing the movement of the object while taking the photo, learning techniques or camera setting such as BULB. This photo was taken by continuous shooting in low lighting and then overlaying the series of images to create the show of movement of the model hands and juggling balls.

I love photography and learning new ways to create a beautiful image, weather its a landscape, portraits or just for fun, as I have always been a creative human being and I am a hands on learner and with my photos I like to bring the art side of photography as I see photography is art, creating and manipulating the photo you created.

Feather Girl!

The photo above was taken in May time as it was a part of my project where I had to plan a photo shoot, organising the props I need like the two fan that I made using a deck of cards and artificial feathers and used a painted I did when I was studying art and design, also had to organise getting a model to shoot and make up and hair, which I asked for other college students to help out which would then help them out with their portfolio. Not only I had to thing about props and model but also had to thing about time and how am i arranging the lighting.

Emily Millichip Photography.

Welcome To My Photography Blog

Hi Bloggers, how are you doing?

I final decided to show off my Photography skills and created a new blog based on my photography as my other blog is more about my life. I enjoy my life blog because it is nice to go back and read what happened that day or what event happened that day to remind me the good memorise. However I wanted to create another blog to separate my photography work and my life just so it more organised and structured then having one big blog fill with my life and photography.

If you wanna check out my other blog its - http://millichocochips.blogspot.co.uk go check it out to find out more about me.

Introduction of me.

My Name is Emily Jayne Millichip and I am 20 years old, and I am in my second yeah at college studying extended diploma photography level 3. I have a big passion for Photography and can not wait to share my interest with you guys. My inspirations are David Bailey, David Hockney,  Dave Hill,  Erik Johansson, Gregory Crewdson, and loads more.

Cant wait to show you all my skills and my photography, as I really hope you enjoy my photograph and reading about my work, would be helpful if you could comment you blogspot so I can check out your work too, I am interested in other people Photography and seeing there work.

Thanks for you time reading my first blog and I will post some of my work shortly.

Keep Snapping!

Emily Millichip Photography