LBM Project 3- 'Transcription' Week 2

Day 1-

Today we had talks on colour and composition.

I find colour really interesting and a powerful media to use to convey emotion- or just grab people's attention! I often spend ages in photoshop tweaking colours in my image so that they are just right.

I learnt some new rules from the composition talk that will come in very handy- previously I was relying mainly on rule of thirds.

Day 2-

Character talks- developing ideas

Photoshoot-

I encountered various problems while doing the photoshoot this week…

The first problem was the fact that the person I had arranged to model for me was ill on Wednesday, the day I had planned the photoshoot on, this meant that I had to find someone else to model for me. I was able to find Mae who was available from 2:30pm on Thursday.

The location I finally settled on was an amazing find- the trees canopying the area were a lovely rich shade of yellow-orange and the ground was covered with a carpet of leaves. There was a small path winding through the trees which was perfect to frame a centralised subject.

I’m sure I will be visiting this location again for another shoot.

Halfway through the photoshoot the sun all of a sudden disappeared and we were plunged in to darkness within a matter of minutes. This was really not helpful at all as I wanted all the shots to remain consistent with each other. I had to slightly modify the shots to deal with this problem- when Mae picked up the prism the surroundings were plunged in to darkness.

When I got the tripod and camera set up properly I had a peek through at the scene and Mae was walking on a log at the edge of the frame- I thought it was quite a cool shot, so I took it.

Day 3-

Today we had our final crits

The main points that I took from the crit this week was
-Think about giving my series of photos a name

-The importance of printing, it has a big impact on how professional you look. A screen doesn't do the images justice