India Hicking 15619420

Within groups today (me, Jennie Hawkes and Scott), we created photos inspired by the work of David Bailey especially featuring Rembrandt lighting.

We started our work by trying to recreate this photo, but the lighting was very orange-toned, so when changed to black and white it was far too underexposed as well as lacking in contrast.

We then started to create photos with more contrast and better lighting to become more like David Bailey’s photographs.

However these were still underexposed and lacked contrast so we changed locations by natural light to improve our photos.

These become much more accomplished photos which feature the Rembrandt lighting.

Within our workshops today we did a studio shoot in which the subject had to try to hide their identity. This photo that I took of Miguel is one of many I took, however the others were not focussed on the eyes which means it would not be an accomplished photograph. Therefore after looking at all the photos I decided to only upload this one. I like the lighting and the focus on this photograph and think it is well thought out and it captured what I set out to do at the beginning of the photoshoot.

Within our workshop we went out and took photos of strangers on the university campus. I worked with Jennie Hawkes. These are our unedited photos.

This first photo is inspired fashion photography, where we found a stranger who’s fashion was very on trend to photograph. However, the girl is a little out of focus which is disappointing and needs to be improved on.

These photos are much more accomplished as they all have a very shallow depth of field with the focus on her eyes throughout. I am very proud of these photos as they are well lit, have a good depth of field and are well-framed.

This photo have a very shallow depth of field with focus on his eyes which make a very accomplished image. The subject is evenly well-lit with some lighting coming from behind him.

Thinking about the found object brief we were given I starting looking for inspiration from what we see every day. This was prominently rubbish and wrappers which we come across daily so I took this concept and created images which creates a message and metaphor for the way in which we live.

It brings to light the way in which we, as a society, throw away things and take for granted the luxuries we encounter daily.

The first image I have chosen to put into this blog is one which I like the composition and lighting, but find the image quite mundane and it doesn’t project my intentions fully.

Image 1

This next image was built upon the first and showed more contents of the cup. This is a much more accomplished image as it highlights the contents and the underlying message within the photograph. However, I wanted to explore more into a close up image of the cup/contents as I felt that the message was still being somewhat lost through it being on a podium, even though that gave the object status.

Image 2

The next image was a much better layout but the lighting was wrong. It was slightly underexposed and focussed more on the cup element rather than the contents. This is because the light is coming predominantly from the left hand side, and even though there is a reflector on the right to project some light back, its not enough.  However I expanded from this image to create my final piece.

Image 3

Final Image

This image is my favourite out of all that were taken on this shoot. This is because it is close up so the image is clear and the lighting is coming from the right direction. This image uses a black backdrop to highlight the different colours within the ‘rubbish’ and to create contrast between the cup and its contents.

Final Image

Within our photography workshops we took everyday objects and created beautiful but wacky images.

We started with a plastic block of cheese with plastic flowers and used inspiration from Dutch paintings with the dark lighting/background including interesting use of shadows. We then started using reflective disk and flagging to create a more interesting, fully lit image, with an extremely dark background to give an illusion of floating, more prominent in the second image.

Our second idea was to use a worn and old funnel to act as a vase for a plastic flower being brightly lit from ninety degrees which casts a shadow on the right hand side of the funnel.

 

For this project we worked in groups. I worked with Jennie Hawkes and Jen Dennison.