Shoot Eleven - Work Diary

This image is one of the best that I took, I really like the lighting in this image as it makes him look a bit less shadowy. The photograph has quite a dark background but there is a lot of light colour with the white peace sign. This is quite informally framed as you can see the side of the door where the doorbell is. Although I think that this works well for this image.

This is one of the photographs that I would say is one of my best, I really like the background of this image as it contrasts with the clothing he is wearing because he is wearing dark clothing, whilst the background is full of bright primary colours.

This is probably the worst image from the shoot because it is slightly out of focus, which is a shame because I really like the composition of the photograph and the location that I took it in. I think that the colourful background contrasts really well with the dark colours that he is wearing so it looks good.

Progression:

If I were to re-do this shoot, I would think more about what locations I was going to use, rather than just wondering around and looking, however I think that this works well regardless as I found some interesting places whilst wondering. 

Shoot eleven - Contact Sheet

Shoot eleven - Straight Images

Computer Experiment 5

This image uses a tilt-shift blur, I wanted to focus on the subjects eyes for this image, I used photoshop to do this edit.

Firstly I created a new layer, I duplicated the layer so that it would be easy to undo any mistakes by just deleting the layer, rather than deleting the whole photo and uploading it again.

Then I clicked on filter and chose tilt-shift from the blur gallery.

I was then able to position the tilt-shift however I wanted it and as I wanted the eyes to be in focus and the rest of the face to be slightly blurred, I made the bit in focus quite thin so it just covered the eye area.

Print Technique 1

This is a duotone edit on the photograph, I used photoshop to create this technique.

First I clicked on gradient map to get this menu up, it has lots of different choices for colours and different gradients, although I just wanted two colours so I chose the purple and orange gradient. 

I decided that I didn't want purple and orange, so instead I used a orangey brown and an orange colour, as I wanted it to be two tones of the same colour rather than two separate colours entirely.

I think that this technique looks really good and I would use it again in the future.

Shoot Eight - Work Diary

Aperture: 11

Shutter Speed: 1/125

ISO: 200

This is probably the best image from my shoot, I really like the lighting for the photograph as there aren't really any shadows on the face, it is mostly just a light photo, whilst still having dimension.

I am doing the same pose as in one of my shoot nine photographs, I wanted to do this so that I could show a direct contrast in presentation and how it can change what you think of somebody, I'm wearing makeup in this image which is in contrast to shoot nine where I'm wearing no makeup

Aperture: 11

Shutter Speed: 1/125

ISO: 200

I don't really like this photograph because I'm not focusing on the camera so I'm looking to the side which means you can't see my face straight on, in addition, my hand is in shot, although this doesn't ruin the photo, I don't think it works well here, I would prefer it to be out of shot in this image.

This is the lighting diagram for shoot eight, I used a soft-box on the face, although it was at an angle so there is still some shadows on one side, and to light the back so that it wasn't too shadowy I used a snoot on the light, however I put it up too high which meant that there was still some shadowing at the bottom of the image.

Shoot Nine - Work Diary

For this shoot I did some self portraits, I wanted to do one masculine style shoot and one feminine style shoot to look at gender ambiguity. 

Aperture: 22

Shutter Speed: 1/125

ISO: 200

This is my best photograph from the masculine shoot, the lighting in the image is quite harsh and there is a lot of shadows, a lot of the face is hidden due to the light being positioned on only one side, I really like this photograph because of the contrast, there is a lot of light on one side and not on the other, I am looking towards the darker side in this image which also brings negative connotations.

Aperture: 22

Shutter Speed:1/125

ISO: 200

I don't like this photograph and I think it's the worst of this shoot, the shadows on my face make it look misshapen, in addition, my glasses are reflecting a bit which doesn't look very good. I also think that the light was a bit too bright in this photograph, my face is very bright compared to the darkness of the photo and I think that it would look better if it was a bit darker like the photo above. To fix this I just had to make the light that I used a bit darker, although I could've also changed the camera settings as well.

This is the lighting diagram for my shoot, I decided to only use one light because I think that it creates a much more shadowy effect on the photograph. I also didn't want the background lit up so that the photograph stayed quite dark.