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Final portraits

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Self

LILLI7

I chose this as my final image as I wanted to use an image that I feel represents me. I like myself best when I’m smiling and this is usually when my friends or something had made me laugh. I also like this image because of the position of everything and think the line of the top of the brick wall works well to draw the viewers attention to the focus of the photograph, my face. I also think this is quite a natural photo and I think they are the best ones as they are not forced or uncomfortable to look at. As it’s a self portrait too I think choosing one which my friends and family would look at be happy with, is important.

Friend

MATTb&w1

I was really happy with this image and felt like this one was the most successful out of all my friends photos, in and outside the studio. I think the way I’ve use the aperture settings to focus on him and blur the background works well as It keeps the viewers eyes on Matt. I changed it to black and white as I think it told a different story to if it was in colour. There seems to be more meaning and questioning in this image than the coloured one which attracts the viewer. This photo wasn’t as planned or posed as the others either so it was natural, like my self portrait.

Stranger

stranger final

This is my final edited stranger portrait and I’m happy with how it came out. Although it is just a straight on photo, I think the way I’ve used aperture and Lightroom to edit makes it a successful photo. I find this photo intriguing as I drained the colour and the only real colour in it is the red rose. This makes the viewer question what does this red rose mean and if it does even mean anything. I changed the shadows feature for this as in my last edit you couldn’t see her eyes and this made her feel distant to the viewer. Now theres a slight shine in her eyes, making her more human and real.

Still Life triptych

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final found objects piece

This is my final piece for my still life brief. Our brief specified to go to a certain location and take photos of found objects around the area, however I first experimented with taking photos of mouldy/half eaten food in my flat. I started with the apple and think this looked really effective. I decided I wanted to do a mouldy food series as I thought these would look good as a triptych. I originally thought of using mouldy bread with the apple but the bread didn’t mould very quickly and when it did the photographs weren’t as effective as my banana and grapes images. I also thought of using an apple, cactus and something else that was organic and had a green colour scheme to it. But I couldn’t find anything that would be suitable and be a good match with the apple and cactus so didn’t use the cactus image in the end.

For my final 3 images I allowed the half eaten fruits to mould for a few days as I thought this would give a much more interesting effect to the image and the object than if they were ripe fruits. They now have creases, different colours, lines and details that they didn’t before. I took lot’s of images of each of them and then used lightroom to edit and choose the best images. Although I tried to use the best settings on the camera I still did some editing so enhance the colours, textures. Although the raw images were slightly noisy I thought this could enhance the details and make the objects look more gritty. I also used lightroom to make the objects slightly glow. As the grapes were dark purple they didn’t show up very well on the black background like the apple and banana did. So I made the centre of the image glow slightly so that the edges were still a dark black but the grapes could be seen better. I did this slightly on the other 2 images too so they were consistant.

I chose to arrange the images in this order as the lines in the apple curve inwards, the grapes point towards the centre and the apple curves inwards. This means they all point towards the middle, making it a comfortable triptych to view and the lines are easy to follow. I think this was important to my images as the actual subject of them (mouldy food) isn’t very comfortable or enjoyable to look at, so by making the photographs enjoyable, its balanced out.