This week we have mainly focused on Photoshop. We have learnt about cropping images and seeing how sizes can change the quality of an image. We also looked at layers, like how we can change the colour of an image. Yesterday we looked at refelcters; these are white, gold or silver different reflective materials that reflect light to brighten up areas in your images. They also bounce light off bright coloured walls, floors or other objects to brighten up your images. They work well on portrait shots where natural light has hit one side of the person or models face but the other side would be dark so you would put a reflector on the dark side to bounce light onto the model so all the face is lightened up. We also had a look at focal length and lenses. I have learnt that our eyes see at roughly 40mm, which makes some images that have been taken using a 10 or 20mm will look really zoomed out which would be used to capture landscapes or large areas. We were also trying to find out the largest focal length, the largest one I could find was 2000mm, which would be used to take pictures of wildlife photography. We took a look at people that airbrush image and repair-damaged images. I thought it was amazing, I didn’t even know it was possible to repair the images to look like or even better than they did before they were damaged. I’m also looking forward to the next assignment, which is where we will be experimenting with images, and seeing how they come out after.