Applying The Right Colours for the work



(From Left to Right) Stephanie Seymour, Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Tatjana Patitz and Naomi Campbell in 1989.

 In the 1980's, they believed they were 'ahead of their time' with their photograpic technology. The photos had a natural grain specular to them. When they weren't mirrored with a sepia or black & white effect, they were mirrored with a green-blue effect. As much as we would like to try, photographers nowadays can never get the right 1980's effect on our work today. All we can do is try. And try is exactly what I am going to do.






Linda Evangelista (1989) a very washed-out green tint.



Christie Brinkley (1983) this photo has a blue tint to it.

POST PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE 80'S
(LINDA EVANGELISTA & THE SUPERMODELS)
TALK ABOUT THE PHOTO/ THE COLOURING/ LIGHTING/ CONTRAST

After analysing the photo colouring of some of the 1980's photography, I wanted to make sure I understood it completely so I went on to Photoshop to do a little experiment. I tookthe photos from the D&G Anthology Perfume campaign and edited the photos. These are the originals:

Noah Mills

Claudia Schiffer



Tyson Ballou




Naomi Campbell



To make sure that I get the right colouring, I used the layer adjustments tool to get an accurate edit.

These are screen grabs of the process of layer adjustments on Adobe Photoshop. It will prompt a question box asking you what you want to name the new layer and to adjust its opacity, colour and mode. I done all the editing on the photo of Claudia Schiffer (the first one) and then I copied and pasted it on to all the other campaign photos. This not only saves time, but also ensures that all the photos have exactly the same toning and colour adjustments.