Baby Shoot - Rubie

Within this shoot, I have photographed my neighbours little baby and her older brother within their home environment. I have used the available lighting with one umbrella light which I bounced off the ceiling. I feel that it was successful for my first shoot at home. 

Photographs for College Prospectus

Within this session, we were split into groups whereby we had to travel around the college creating images that complied to the brief in order to create a college prospectus. The area of college that we worked with was Landbase (Animal Care). 

To begin with we photographed the microscope shot by first working out the settings on the camera and placing the lights where they were needed. For all of the shots we needed to turn the room lights off. For the microscope image we set the equipment up to be in the image, arranged the softbox to the right of the camera (power 3) and an umbrella light to the left hand side of the camera (1/4 power).

Here is our groups final image that we took using students from landbase. 

The next image was within the X-ray area where we used the X-ray to create the next image. For this image below the settings we used were ISO 400, F-10, and 1/150. We used the light box that is used to view the X-rays and natural lighting. 

We then tried to photographing the X-ray up against the window, to see the skeleton. The camera settings we used were ISO 200, F-10 and 1/150. We also used a soft box (power 1) to the left hand side of the camera.

The next shoot was to photograph the lizard with a student alongside the cages of various other creatures. We made sure that the room lights were all turned off. We used three lights in total; a soft box for the subject (power 4), and two standard lights pointing at the ceiling corners (full power) this was to bounce the light around the room to light it. 

The last shoot was to capture the two donkeys together but it was difficult to get them together so we concentrated on one of them. 

Overall, I feel that I have learnt a lot by doing lighting on location and with more practice I will be able to do it naturally. It was a great session and I had great fun. 

Witley Court

In today's session, the group travelled to Witley Court and Gardens. I love this place as it is extremely beautiful and allows for some beautiful images of the historical place. The weather was brilliant for us.
These are a selection of my images from the days shoot;

Typography

In today's session, I was introduced to typography which is using typefaces within photography. There are certain typefaces that are used within different aspects. Photographers that I looked at were David Carson and Johnny Hardstaff.

Within this session, I completed two tasks using typography. The first task was to create a landscape A4 document within Photoshop and by using the word "typography" I had to fill the page as best as I could making it readable, creative and pleasing to the viewers eye.

The brief stated that the letters could only be 90º (not various angles), I had to use San Serif type, the colours used should be red, black and 50% grey.

This is my image below;

For the second task, involved us going out and taking images that fitted the brief he gave us. This is  the brief below;

 

When capturing the images, we were asked to try to capture them with a witty humour to them. Before leaving for the location, I had a few ideas in my mind but it wasn't until I was out shooting that I realised more ideas.

When I had captured the ideas, I went back to the college and edited the images by adding the headings into the images. He wanted a more artistic heading rather than just writing it onto the image. 

These are my images below;

I feel that I was able to capture some good images that fit the description of the brief, I found it a really good task that combined two elements together. Overall, it was really good to experiment with and I would definitely do it again. 

Video Portfolio

Portfolio

This is a selection of portraits that I have took which I have created into a portfolio. I used iMovie which was relatively simple and I feel that the portfolio was successful. 

Zante

A selection of images from my holiday to Zante. 

Foyer exhibition

Foyer Exhibition

Within today's session, as a group we created an exhibition space whereby we all had a space to display one image that we liked and felt was strong. The exhibition was held in the foyer in our college. In preparation we chose the image and then made any edits accordingly. The image was printed on to an A3 piece of paper. My image was a landmark from my holiday in Zakynthos, which was a shipwreck, I chose this image as I thought it was strong and a beautiful landscape from the high cliffs of Zakynthos.

Once the images were ready to be displayed, we made sure we knew what measurements we needed so everyone's image was the same level. The images were then stuck to the walls with double sided sticky pads and made sure that they were level. 

This was my first exhibition within my HND second year which is only just the start, this therefore prepares me for the professional world. I found that it was successful and looked great. It allows for other people to view our work and have critical feedback from them. It also gives us good practice setting the exhibition up and giving us more confidence in this area. I feel that it looks extremely well and really professional.

The images below show the set up of our exhibition.