Final 6 images

Close-up/ Macro Photography


This image was taken outside of the door of the house I was stayin in when I was in St. Ives. I walked past this and it automatically caught my eyes because of the wispyness of the plant, which you cannot see on this picture, and the bright colours from the flowers.
I used my 18-55mm lens with the lens set at 55mm. I got as close up to the flower as my lens would let me without any adapters or macro lenses. I stood above the flower so that I could get more detail form inside the flower. I haven't edited the picture too much, all I have done is put the contrast up quite high to give the image more depth.
The green and the purple work well together. The flower seems to stand out more against the green back ground.
I have used natural light for this image as I thought that a flash would have been too harsh to use for photographing a delicate flower.




I took this image whilst I was on a walk with my parents. I was stood looking at the sea over a deep wall. I placed my camera on the wall and focused the lens on the closest point I could. I gave enough space for the sea and rocks to be in the background. I added contrast to the image to give it more depth and make the image look a bit darker. The darkness of the wall works well against the bright background. The water that the camera has focused on catches your eye as it is reflecting the sky, making the stone look brighter.




Natural/ Organic Forms


This image was taken when I walked down to the old jetty. I turned my camera to portrait rather land landscape so that I could get more of the rocks, sea and sky in to the image. I forgot to change the white balance to day light on this picture so it turned out very blue as I had it tungsten. I edited the image by importing it into lightroom, putting the temperature up towards the warm side. I then exported it in to photoshop where I used the preset 'auto-color.' This brought the image back to its real colour. I then put the contrast up to make the image look more colourful and inviting. Natural lighting was used when I photographed this image. I placed the stump in the middle of the picture to break the colours up a bit.




This image was taken just after I took the one above. I was sat on the rocks pointing the camera down towards the rock pool. The water looks very clear, warm and inviting. I made the image look like this by putting the contrast up and sharpening the image. There isn't one point of focus in this image which I like as it is all very interesting. The colours work well together. The part of this image that I do not like is the shadow on the right hand side. I used natural light, with the bright sun to phtograph this image. The bright light from the sun makes the sea look warm and inviting.




Commercial Product


I got the idea to do this photo shoot by seeing Adams boxers. I did some research in to Calvin Klein images and found that most of the images are black and white and quite sexy. I chose this image because I think that the image looks more like a Calvin Klein one. The picture isn't too sexy, but in a way it is because of the hand coming from behind Adam holding on to his jeans.
I placed a light with an umbrella on the right hand side of the image, placing it low to the point i was photographing. I used artificial light to light the picture. Natural lighting wouldn't have worked as well as the studio lights as the studio lights make the image look clean, fresh and even.




Highly Reflective Subject


It took me a while to find a reflective object that I liked. I didn't like this image when I'd first taken it as the image looked too blue. Once I had tried out a few different edits I decided I liked the high contrast black and white image the best. I cropped the picture quite a lot to achieve this effect. This is because the image looks as though it has been taken on film and looks like an old picture.
I like how you can see the reflection of the beach so clearly in the picture, but how you can still tell that the image is a reflection.

reflective and incandescent contact sheets

St. Ives contact sheet

Writing a caption

To write a caption for a photograph, you first have to select/highlight the photograph you want to name. On the right hand side of Lightroom there is a section called 'Metadata.' When you scroll down to the bottom of this section you see a part that says 'Caption,' which is highlighted, this is where you add a caption for your image.

Organising in Lightroom

To organise your files in Lightroom go to 'File,' and click on to 'New catalogue'




This comes up with a box where you can name your catalogue so that you can always find it.

Importing images in to Lightroom

To import an image into Lightroom, go to 'File' and click on 'Import from disk'





This brings up a window with all the pictures you have taken. You choose an image or a folder to open.





The images have now been imported in to the Lightroom catalogue

Wide and Telephoto

This first image was taken from my drive when the snow was bad and I was house bound. I liked how the snow fell on the trees both in the fore ground and back ground.

This image was taken at the focal length of 18mm:





This image was taken at a focal length of 35mm:





These two images were taken whilst I was in St.Ives over the weekend.



This image was taken at a focal length of 55mm:





This image was taken at a focal length of 18mm

Shallow Depth of Field

http://www.emmettlollis.com/tutorials/digitalphotography/shallow-depth-of-field.asp


Depth of Field or DOF for short is a description of how much of your photograph is in focus. A shallow depth of field simply means that one specific area of your photo is tack sharp while other elements remain blurred.


Here are a few images that show DOF:











These images were taken when I was on a photo shoot with my friend, doing some photographs for his portfolio. I decided to use these images as I like doing portraiture and fashion and wanted to incorperate bits of this in to my brief.


I like how you can see the ice and snow on the river in the background of this image, but not too strong to take your focus away. As it is shallow depth of field the background is out of focus making the model stand out more.





I wish I had gotten more of the trees in to this image to give it more of a sense of depth. I added contrast and blurred the background a bit more to create more of a depth to the image.





I liked this image but the model's make up was a bit too orange so I toned it down a bit and turned it in to black and white to see what effect this had. I like the black and white on the image. It seems to make the image look mysterious. Im not too keen on the model's pose. He looks uncomfortable.

Fluorescent

When I saw that we had to photograph something using florescent lighting I got excited because I had just seen a photo shoot on America's Next Top Model where they had used florescent lighting. Obviously mine would be no where near as good as theirs.
For my light I used the light off my old fish tank and got the model to pose with it. I came out with a few good shots. I enjoyed using the florescent light.


In this image the model looks a bit uncomfortable with the pose, only with in his neck and face. I do like the pose.





This photograph would have looked better if the model had been turned to the side a little. His body looks very wide as the picture was taken straight on.





This is the best image of the three. The model looks comfortable with his pose and comfortable in his face. His body looks good and the light isn't blocking his face.

Incandescent lighting

This was a random picture I took of my best friend. After i had taken it I had realised that this was incandescent light. the light gives the image an orange kind of look but it suits Adam's skin tone.





These two images were taken with a lamp at one side of my mum and with the ceiling lights on to give a bit more light. I turned the images black and white because I think this suits portraits better.








This is the last image I took for this brief. I was lighting candles in my room when I came across my birdcage. I liked the flowers on them, so I placed the birdcage next to my bed side lamp and photographed bits of the cage close up. I like how the image has turned out.
I gave the image an 'antique' preset which adds to the french feel of the image.

Halogen Lighting

Luckily, instead of having to go out and search for places that had halogen lighting I found out that I had halogen lights in my kitchen. So I took a few objects into my kitchen to photograph.


I found these fake flowers on one of my couches and thought they looked really nice so I placed them on to floor to photograph.

For the first edit of this image I used the preset 'cold tone' on my Lightroom 2 which looks to have gotten rid of most of the saturation in the image and added grain.




For this image I gave it a sepia effect. I think that the 'cold tone' looks better for this image.





My cat is such a poser and he was sat watching me take picture, so I decided to take a picture of him staring in to the camera with his big eyes.





These two images are of some oils which were given to my parents for Christmas. They have different things inside of them e.g. chilli, rosemary etc. For the first image I only put the contrast up to give the image more depth.





For this image I used the 'antique' preset, which I seem to be obsessed with at the moment! But I think that it makes images look better.





This is my favourite image of the day, just because my cat got in to it by playing with the oil bottle.

Highly reflective subject

Because I was house bound last week I went on a hunt around the house for highly reflective subjects. These were all found in the kitchen as we have a lot of stainless steel objects in there.


I liked the idea of taking a picture of myself in the bin, one of my cats also walked past whilst I was taking this picture.
I tried the image in colour and black and white, the black and white look the best with the stainless steel.





Another object I found which was reflective was the iron. I saw my dad in the iron so told him to stay still and took a picture. Again, the picture looked best in black and white rather than colour.





It took me a while to realise that the microwave showed reflections. The microwave shows more reflection in a picture than it does just looking at the object.





Both of these images are of the tap. I tried out two different presets for the images and couldn't work out which one i preferred.
For this image I used the 'high contrast black and white' preset from Lightroom 2.





For this image I used the 'antique' preset giving the image a sepia effect.







These two images below were taken when I went down to St.Ives over the weekend. We walked past an empty shop which showed the beach in the reflection.
I have given both images the 'high contrast black and white' preset because the image looked very blue from the shop being blue. I didn't like the images when they were in colour, but now they are in black and white I really like them.