Final Images

 

These are the final photographs that I have chosen to hand in. I have decided to print the middle one A0.The one that I am printing up to A0 was taken on the phase one camera and the other two where shot on the D800. In all three of the images I used flash but the last image shown I had to use a zoom reflector and bounce the flash of the celling. This was only because I could not book one out the store for the day I wanted it.

I am pretty pleased with how the images have turned out. If I was going to do any of the images again I think I would reshoot the A0 one. This is because the model is not quite were I wanted him in the frame. Apart from this I think the images have come out really well.

Still Life

In one of our practical lessons we learned some handy tricks on how to photograph glass. We started off by setting up a table with a soft box directly behind it. We then set the camera up on one of the studio tripods that was then pointing into the flash. After setting up the camera we then took our first meter reading. When we had the reading we had to close the aperture down by two more stops because we were shooting into the light.

This was the first shot that I took. It is correctly exposed and looks ok but you cant really see the glass very well.

To make the glass more visible there is a handy little trick. If you get two bits of black card and place them ether side of the glass object. The reflection on the glass will show the outline of the bottle or vase that you are photographing.

This is the setup that I had for my shoot. Also to get this affect i have placed the object on a sheet of glass this then gives it the mirrored effect hat is shown in the image above. To finish the image off you then take it into photoshop and crop the image so you can no longer see the black borders. You are then left with a long image like this.

 

 

 

 

Interim Crit

 

This is my Tableaux piece that I did for my Interim Crit. The idea behind this photograph was I wanted to take inspiration from Edward Hopper. I wanted to experiment with the light in my image in the same way as Hopper would paint it.

To create this image I placed a pro photo D1 flash behind the door. This flash lit up the subject and flooded out into the room. I wanted to make it look like the woman in the image is curious to see what is behind the door.

When I showed this image to my peers it made them want to go in and open the door to see what was behind it. For some it was quite frustrating for them. Another comment was that the door looked like it was a gateway to another world. This was because they said that the image is quite dark. However the red fabric behind the door was like the woman in the image was walking into a better more colorful world.

Overall I am quite happy with the feedback that I got. Although I don’t think that I want to pursue this genre.

Interm Crit

 

 

 

This is the photograph that I used for my portraiture in my Interim Crit. Over all I think that my peers liked the image but there were a couple of adjustments that were mentioned. One person said that they would have liked to see the sofa in the middle of the frame because it was slightly off. I agreed with this point and agued that in this setting, because I was quite far back then it was hard to position the sofa in the center of the image. However I agree that it is something that I can work on.

Another reason that the sofa was not quit in the center of the image was I had the soft box in the corner of the shot. I had to keep moving my camera so the soft box wasn’t in shot. One of the solutions to this was suggested a peer. They said that is would be better to have the soft box behind the camera when taking the shot this way it wouldn’t be in shot.

I took everything on board that was said and I am going to work on these improvements. I think that I am going to stick with the genre of portraiture, as I don’t think I have explored it enough yet.

 

Little Red In The Hood

For this little test shoot we got in little groups to come up with a tableaux. Our group came up with the idea of fairy tails with a twist. We thought of doing a jack in the bean stork, But instead of magic beans we could have had magic mushrooms. The idea that we settled on in the end was a twist on Little Red RidingHood. Instead of the innocent little red riding hood with a basket of muffins. We decided to fill reds basket with alcohol.Also the axe man that is meant to look out for red is sneaking up behind to kill her.

We wanted to make the lighting really moody. To achieve this we balanced the day light with flash heads that we took out. We then used a faster shutter speed to make the background darker. this made a really nice moody light.