Were hoping to get the photography studio booked so we can use the backdrop and lights to replicate the photos...failing this we'll have to improve with some paper and natural lighting which should do the trick just as well.
Replicating the post production acheived on the previous photos was not a "quick process". I played around with basic photo filters as well as off setting colour balances on a couple of test photos to see how it was achieved. Whilst this produced the "blue ish tinge" that seemed to be present in the final pictures, it was difficult to tell if i was on the right track without having an original photograph to mess around with: with similar lighting and background setup.
So after a couple of seconds pondering...i stole the photographs from the degree show website and decided the best way to solve it...was to reverse the process. I took a few examples and colour balanced them to have "normalish" colourings, from this you can easily work out the opposite needed to create the final look.
I tried this with 4 of the guys photos (thanks test lot) and the colour shifts arent consistent which is obviously due to individuals skin and hair tones. So we can probably "get away with" a certain amount but obviously want to be as true to the final look as possible.
Photo sizes are also inconsistent, which are either 4KB or 8KB in size which would explain difference in resolution quality between the whole group.
Final image sizes are 170x170 pixels.
Im pretty confident we can replicate this now and i'll be glad to sort these out post wise and then hand over to dan to post on the website.
these arent by any stetch of the means perfect but give us a good starting point to work from. These look pixelated/bad as im working with small compressed images and so reversing colour will not look perfect. You can also see the pictures are desaturated as well which will need to transfered onto the new photos aswell.
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