Experimentation

The first item I found for this brief was a nice watch, now this was a little too formal for this brief and all I could think of was doing product photography. This was a little too boring and formal. I decided to scrap this idea and try something else that would be more interesting, so I am going to leave my experiments below. The images linked are sort of average. Shot under two studio lights and a fill flash unit on top of my camera. The studio lights emit a light of 5500k which is quite cold and are pretty bright in that sense, they gave some decent results.

I also had some old battered headphones lying around, so I thought they could work quite well and I also found a weird googly eyed pot with a lid that looks like a hat so I used them to see how they worked and to be honest. I hated the look they gave. They didn’t go together and they sort of clashed with one another. The materials that they’re made of clashed in a bad way, so this idea that I had totally gone out of the window and straight into the bin.

IMG_1073_e_2 — What I liked about this image, was the way in which the depth of field played a part in capturing you. it is basic product photography which isn’t a bad thing, just that the image is very plain. I originally took this image as a landscape image but soon realised it made more sense that it was portrait, even if the image looks like it is floating.

IMG_1057_e — I really liked this shot of the watch, the monochrome pallet of the shirt and backdrop really draw your attention to the watch face which has gold tones to it. The backdrop was originally blue but I felt that with some editing I could make the piece more cohesive.

During one of the workshops, we were tasked with going into the built environment around the university and taking images. I felt this exercise to be pretty easy as with having experience of shooting images. I felt at ease taking well compose images. The images I have included in this post are edited using camera raw and are some of my favourites. Also some of the colours in these images are rather startling as I decided to shoot them as such, creating a more muted colour and creating some interesting images.

I felt this image above had a very Cartier-Bresson feel to it. Something about the way that it was composed and how it feels. when I was capturing this image I could hear the person going down the stairs and thought it would be a good opportunity to use golden ratio which works really well here, it was a very decisive moment to look at. the sun was coming in fro the right so the rails of the stairs are a little bit overexposed which couldn’t be helped as the rest of the image is correctly exposed. I did try to remove the highlight it created in camera raw, but this did not work so I just left it there. Overall this image works.

Tag: Experimentation

Found in the University environment