Symmetrical image - wednesday 20th

we were set this brief on the wednesday by andy, we had to get into pairs and take face on portraits of one another in different locations such as the studio or outdoors. I was paired with sarah and we decided to go outside and take some shots in different natural light. I also wanted to use the studio to see what the different locations and lighting would do to the image and change the mood of it. As the studio was full we decided to take a trip down to the fire exit stair case which Andy told us had really good lighting, I struggled at first when trying to change my camera settings to fit the lighting but i feel that i have learnt a lot more about aperture and shutter-speed and how it works.

Once I had taken the photographs on the staircase i uploaded my chosen photograph from the staircase to photoshop to brighten to image I then used the marque tool to select half of the image 

I then selected the feather tool and selected the feather radius to 44 pixels

Then I went onto edit - transform - flip horizontal














After that I copied the image and made it into one single layer














This is the overall outcome of the left side

This is the overall outcome of the right side

I enjoyed this excersize and feel it has helped me to understand how to use photoshop more quicker and easier , as you can see I  have screen shots of how I edited and flipped the images I felt that this would help me in the future to look back and be able to do it again.