Sam

Sam McTrusty, the lead singer of Twin Atlantic, probably wouldn't consider this a good picture of himself, but since this was the best picture I got at the concert I thought it would be interesting to edit.

Twin Atlantic announced their Great Divide tour earlier this year, with a stop at the Glasgow Barrowlands on the 24th of October.  That quickly sold out and they released another Glasgow date on the next day, which also sold out.  Somewhere along the way my friend got tickets for us, her parents and our other friend.  It was a really great concert (apart from the fights in the mosh pit, I had a massive bruise on my foot for a week) and we even met the first support, Nothing But Thieves, after the show.  I wasn't too keen on the venue but I did get a nice picture of the stars on the ceiling.

With this photo I used iPhoto to move the mid tone and white point sliders to the maximum, and the black point to 42%.  The saturation I increased to 100%, and I also altered the definition.  I changed the tone to green because I liked how the guitar looks and contrasts with the darker areas of the picture.

I did a digital pop art project with the youth club a few years ago, which I really enjoyed. In that case we used Photoshop on ancient Macs but I still really like having the ability through other methods to make photographs completely different.  Digital pop art is very interesting and I like the effect it has.  Most of the time though I think I just like making things looking unreal.

I liked the photo better in black and white, but I still wanted to edit it some more so in Windows Live Photo Gallery I added an orange filter, sharpened the image to make it more defined and increased the brightness and tone.  I also made the contrast darker so the light of the guitar stood out even more.  I like how the lightest parts of the picture are slightly fuzzy because I think it has an interesting effect and complements the photo as a whole.

I used iPhoto for this one, boosting it and making the temperature and tone -100.  I increased the colour intensity, avoiding saturating skin tones.  I altered the exposure very slightly, making the picture brighter.  I also decreased the mid tones and the white of the photo to 50% and increased the black points to 20%.

Here is the original photograph, which was not a calculated shot but is closer to a snapshot, since I was desperately taking photos to try to get a good one.  The ISO was 400, and the aperture f/6.1.  The shutter speed was 1/4.  This wasn't by design as I left the camera in automatic mode, mostly so I didn't have to spend a lot of time fiddling about and missing the show.

I had a lot of fun editing these photos and I really like the different results I got.  I think I prefer the blue and pink one over the rest because I like the contrast and how the bright colours go together.