Shoot 3 (Still Life)

For my third shoot, my intentions was to do a light painting around a normal, plain wine glass. I carried out my third shoot in the college studio where I used the black background drop, a table, a mirror and wine glass.

Why did I involve a mirror? 
The reason on why I decided to carry out the shoot with the mirror underneath the glass was to give it a reflection and extra depth. 

Why did I involve light painting? 
I involved light painting to make the still image stand out with the bright, powering lights that circled around the plain, uninteresting glass.

The image that is shown below is the image on my ideas which I did before I took the shoots. I saw this image when I was researching the possibilities that I could do that would make my final image look great. I have gone of this picture for my outcome but I have made it different so they were not the exact same. 

I have took numerous of photos to show a 'process' of me developing my ideas. (This will be shown below)

 (Process)

The photo that I chose to edit 

I chose this photo out of the others purely because I think the light painting and the black background compliments the glass well. I think it gives it a 'warm' feeling unlike if I chose the one with the blue lights which would give a more 'cooler', 'cold' feeling. I didn't edit a huge amount of this photo as I quite like it the way it is but I upload this photo into Photoshop and cropped it where the picture is even, meaning everything is in the centre. Once I did that I then moved onto moving the 'saturation' slightly higher whilst moving the 'contrast' slight down to make the background darker. Once I modified the way I liked it I then went onto 'blending' and used 'dissolve' and this is my final outcome. (shown below)

Shoot 2 (Portraiture)

For my second shoot, my intentions was to capture a 'portrait' image for my final outcome. 

When I was capturing photographs I wanted to demonstrate my images towards an artist that I chose, Dariusz Szwedo.

The reason on why I took a liking to Dariusz Szwedo's portraits was purely because I found them interesting. I have shown images of his work on my second idea when I was showing my intentions for when it came down to producing it. 

The image below is one of the ones that I found interesting and different as this image isn't just one tone of colour, it's a multiple of different shades in different places.

Moriarty of portraits that you tend to see everywhere are similar to one another. For example, well lit high key lighting (meaning no shadows) or black&white.

To try and recreate a similar image to the one I chose was to photograph the model in college studio. 

I used a mix of soft boxes and different background drops. White & black, etc. 

To get my final image that I wanted to edit I didn't just take one image, I took numerous of them to show a 'process'. (This is shown below) 

The photo that I chose to edit 

How did I accomplish my final outcome?

Step one was to upload my own captured image and the original photo that I was going of into Photoshop and use the 'crop' tool. The reason on why I used the crop tool was because the photograph that I captured was taken with my camera side ways and for the finishing look that I was going for I needed it to be more of a box shape rather than rectangle. Once the cropping was done I then focused on airbrushing the models skin, airbrushing is definitely required for the kind of look that I was going for purely because the portraiture that I wanted to do is more on the glamorously, poesy side. I did this by using the 'spot healing' brush tool. I then went on to using the 'polygon lasso' tool, I used this tool to go round certain places on where I wanted to add the different colour tones, this was done by using the 'eyedropper' tool and the 'paint bucket' tool. I used that tool to get the exact same colour shade of the picture that I was going of and then I would just simply fill where I wanted it. I then enhanced the colour of the eyebrows using the 'brush' tool, along with using the 'saturation' tool to enrich the colour. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to strongly notice them.  I also went onto making her eyelashes longer, thicker and darker. This was done by using the 'lasso' tool and the 'paint bucket' tool. 

This then resulted in this (image shown below)

After I got the finishing look that I was going for, I then wanted to make it more of my own and clone the image to make it look like an reflection. I did this by copying the background layer and move the other layer slightly up away from the face and messed around with the opacity and then changed the colour effect to black and white.

And then this led to my final outcome.

IDEA 3 (Reflection)

For my third idea, I am going to demonstrate 'reflection' within 'still life'.

Still Life images can be just be about anything that doesn't move. The definition of a still life subject is an 'inanimate', meaning something that shows no sign of life. Still life include followers, food, glasses etc.

What are my intentions? 
My intentions for my still life idea will be involving the following: 

• A wine glass
• Mirror (reflection)
• Light painting
• Black background drop 

I have decided to add a mirror for my reflection and different colour lights for the light painting so that I can make my still life image not boring and dull but a bit more intriguing and creative. 

I will do this by using the black background drop in the college studio, a table, a mirror to place on the table and a wine glass to place on top. 

(A similar example shown below)

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Photographer that I have chosen is 'Sam Kaplan'. He was born and got brought up in Boston, MA. He received a B.A from 'Wesleyan University', he studied both conceptual sculpture and traditional photography. Through commercial photography, Sam is always able to know his two favorite skills which where creative problem solving and conceptual thinking. Kaplan now lives in New York. 

Here are some examples of his work