After my first professional frameworks feedback session I took some new photographs associated with winter theme.

My idea was to create nice charming, warm atmosphere by taking a photograph of a hands holding hot, steaming cup. I used a window as a background to show how cold it is outside so the viewer get the sense of cosiness by looking at the cup.

 

This is my final outcome for this assignment. After my second professional frameworks feedback session I got suggested to crop a little bit of a Christmas tree because it was quite distracting and dominated over the main subject (cup).

Seasons Assignment

Winter

Things associated with winter:

Photographs that I found on my computer which I thought would be suitable respond to the brief:

I thought that birds would symbolize winter quite well because they very often struggle to survive during a winter and many species fly away to warm countries for a this period of the year.

 

Here my idea was to separate this Christmas decoration from the rest of composition to expose the sense of Christmas atmosphere.

Colour Studies Assignment & Visual Communication

Colour Studies & Visual Communication Assignment

For this assignment we were asked to capture a series of images based upon two criteria: colour swatch that we've been given and a series of key words  ( e.g. shape, form, texture, reflection, natural, urban etc.)

we had only one week for this assignment so I've not done any research or preparation before producing my outcome. Most of these images come from my well thought out, spontaneous ideas.

My colour swatch

PHOTOGRAPHS BASED ON MY COLOUR SAMPLE

My guitar belt

The key word- texture ( I used side lighting to highlight the texture of this belt) 

f-4,5

1/8

ISO- 100

Liquid diffusion

The key word- movement ( here I wanted to show 

a dynamic movement of paint drop dissolving in water ).

f-11

1/80

ISO- 400

Diagram showing the lighting method that I used.

Crayons

The key word- Shapes

f- 7.1

1/40

ISO- 200

IMAGES RELATING TO MY CHOSEN WORDS:

Calmness

I took this photograph with my analogue 'PRAKTICA' camera on 35mm Kodak film (iso 200). I am quite satisfied with this image due it's plasticity and charm. I edited it a little bit in Photoshop. I warmed up an overall hue of this image, added quite strong vingette to make the model's face stand out and sharped it a little bit with highpass filter.

Reflection

The key word- Reflection ( I really liked this vivid sky light reflected by a car bonnet so I decided to take quite dynamic shoot of it with my wide angle lens. In terms of manipulation I've decided to crop this image to get rid of irrelevant context of an image and fully expose the idea of reflection. Beside this, I've applied a slight HDR (high dynamic range) effect onto this image and It gave quite impressive results ( vivid sky, shiny body car ).

Urban

Here I captured an image of an urban cityscape. I like this asymmetric shape of a building and construction of a bridge going across. However, this photograph would be much more descriptive if it contained some urban symbols such as: graphites. 

Natural

Here I wanted to present a natural, calm photograph captured in ambient light conditions.

I produced this composition to show the 'incrustation'. I captured this photograph against a creamy canvas. I used one light source coming from right side and reflected it's light with gold reflector placed on the left side.

Incrustation (still)