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Illusion Still Life

These are my final 6 images for the illusion still life that we did in the studio!

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Product Photography - Chocolate

Today in class, we did Chocolate Photography.

To edit my image, I've changed the white balance to 'Auto' instead of 'as shoot', because the image looked very yellow/orange and not really 'professional' looking.

After putting the white balance to Auto, I've increased contrast, texture, clarity and saturation.

I have also selected the darkest parts of the brownie and made them lighter to show the details.

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Product Photography - Week 1

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Chocolate Photography Research

I’ve picked these images for inspiration for my chocolate shoot. I’ve picked them because they all have a special element included such as: raspberries, chocolate flakes and other additional stuff sprinkled on top.

I’m going to try my best to emulate these although the chocolate and the ingredients I’m going to have might be a little bit different than on the photographs but I will have to improvise as I go! :)

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Macro Photography - Week 2

This week we were taking pictures of oil in water.

Underneath the dish of oil and water, we were asked to use an iPad and find colourful backgrounds to use, to give these cool effects in the images.

These are my final images that I have taken and edited:

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Macro Photography - Week 3

For this week, we were asked to bring some single use plastic items and some fabric/clothes.

For these images, I have decided to use a plastic knife that I twisted and snapped in half to get this cool effect. In my opinion, the twisting of the plastic made it look like it was melting off.

I think it looks very creative and unique, and so far, these are my favourite macro images.

For this shoot, my camera was set on Manual setting. The ISO was set on 400, the aperture was on F5.6 and the shutter speed was on 1/125. I have also used extension tubes.

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Macro Photography Research

In this post, I will research different equipment for Macro Photography. In studio, I was able to use two of the equipment below which were the Macro Lens and Reversing Ring.

Reversing Ring

Reversing Ring is a ring that attaches to the camera in the 'wrong way' which then makes the lens become a magnifying glass that you can use to take macro images. It is one of the cheaper options.

Macro Lens

Macro Lens, is a lens that is very simple to use as you just attach it to you camera and it's specifically created to take macro images, it lets you get close to the subject and get a sharp image and makes the background blurry. It is one of the expensive options.

Close Up Lens

Close Up Lens is not as good at the macro lens as it doesn't really allow you to get as close as you can with the macro lens. Close up lens is a very good option for you to start your journey with macro photography. You attach the close up lens to your normal camera lens. This is one of the cheaper options as well.

Extension Tubes

The Extension Tubes are attached to your camera lens as an extension, each lens can be used individually or all together. With each lens you get different result, as you can decrease and increase the magnification. When using all of the lenses together, you can get as close to the subject as you can, the same way you can with the macro lens. It is one of the expensive options.

The Bellows

The Bellows extension is an extension that can be added to your camera and can be extended back and forth which may look like an accordion. By moving it back and forth it lets you get as close to the subject as you can. The Bellows work in a similar way to the Extension Tubes. It is not really expensive.

Equipment that can be useful while doing Macro Photography:

LED Panel Light - to brighten the area you are photographing.

Tripod - to steady the camera and avoid camera shake.

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Macro Photography - week 1

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Aperture - Continued

Here is my another try of the aperture assignment:

F5.6:

F8:

F11:

F16:

F22:

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Into The Light - Contre Jour

Here is my go at the Contre-jour technique.

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Into The Light - Low Key

Low-key technique is the opposite of High-key, which means that low-key images are much more darker images that contain more darker tones.

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Into The Light - High Key

High-key images, are images that are very bright to reduce any dark tones or shadows.

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Into The Light - Silhouette - Post Production

This is the contact sheet of the shoot:

In post production of these images, I decided to make the sunset look more intense and the silhouette of my model darker.

These are the before and after:

In my opinion, they look much better after post production :)

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Into The Light - Silhouette

Here's my try to do the silhouette photography.

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Documentary Photography

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Cropping

Our task was to crop our image in 4 different ways to create 4 different images.

This is what I've done, I have picked a photo that I took in the studio using led panels with coloured gels attached to them.

This is the original:

And this is me playing around with the cropping tool:

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Inspired by Art - Portraiture

Continuing the Inspired by Art project...

This one is about the portraiture part, which was very fun to shoot

My reference images:

Shooting time and choosing the best pictures:

My final photos:

During the post production of these images, I have realized that I need to work on how to use Photoshop, this would help especially in these images to edit out the logo on the hoodie, but it is not a big deal and I still very much like these photos.