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.
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