Triptychs

In this lesson we focused on  Triptychs. It's where you take photo's of somesones head, chest and feet and edit them together. You don't need to just take a photo of one person, you can use others head and edit it onto someone elses body.They present two or three images which can be from the same session or they can be polar opposites to show opposition or contrasting ideas.  This video link is an example. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVhIASG5gp0

Lightroom

Lightroom is an editing software. Lighroom is like photoshop but photoshop in my opinion is more complicated to use. I have used this software to edit photo's. I'll post a photo below which i have edited.

Here is a link to a video on youtube about what lightroom is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miB_Oep7ZV8

Portrait photography

Since we were coming to an end with portrait photography, it was time to show Mr Steve what we have learnt. He put our trust in us to set up our own photo shoot. We had to set up the camera (Canon 5d) cambo stand and the studio lights. Here are some of the photo's i had taken and some i had taken of a friend.

David Hockney

Recently we have been introduced to the work of David Hockney above is my piece of Hockney work. I used a canon 400d. I put the images together using photoshop.

 DAvid Hockney is a English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, who is based in Bridlington, Yorkshire and Kensington, London. David Hockney has also worked with photography, or, more precisely, photocollage. Using varying numbers of Polaroid snaps or photolab-prints of a single subject Hockney arranged a patchwork to make a composite image.

Here is an example of his work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCnkbPs2HtI

Bird stop frame photography

Here is my stop frame photography. It's not the best but in future they'll improve.

Stop frame photography

So half term has come and gone. We've now moved onto stop frame photography. Stop frame photography consists of using people and objects. I was already aware of what was needed to be done, but it was just getting it done. Myself and members of the class were handed a camera (Canon 450D). We were given time to go and capture images. Here's a brief description of how to create a piece of stop frame photography. Let's say you have an object, you'll need to capture every bit of movement, you must move the object in slow steps. Once you play it back it should be a short film. He's the video i made. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV4wZFJx54Q

Low key lighting lesson

Today i started off by looking into a photography book of images of low key lighting. Low key light accentuates the contours of an object by throwing areas into shade while a fill light or reflector may illuminate the shadow areas to control contrast.

We used black flags to stop the light reflecting, we had a light above and to the left of the camera. After taking a few photos we change around the settings to get different effects. I'm camera shy, so i didn't have a photo taken. I did take a few though, and i will upload when i receive them. Also we uploaded the pictures we had taken onto a editing software called lightroom. Here is an example.