Shoot 4

Work Record 

For this shoot I wanted to take close up images of everything to do with the forest. I want to use the technique depth of field to create these images because I think this would be a good technique to highlight the main part of the image. Also this time of the year there will be some new plants and buds forming and this could be a contrast to the old leaves leftover from winter. I think selective colour would also be a good idea to use if I get the right type of image. I hope to achieve about 8 close up images that show the contrast of winter and spring and just some nice images that represent the forest. 

Preparation:

• Charge camera
• Arrange a lift to the forest 
• Look at the weather

This shoot was fun to do because I just walked around the forest looking for things that I thought would  make a nice image and there was no time span that I had to stick to like in the studio. I think the range of different images and composition I took was good because I had a lot of freedom when editing the images. I produced 9 images which I am happy with and I am happy with the quality of the images as well. I found looking for different objects and composition was ok because I sort of new what I wanted and what I thought would look good or not. 

When editing these images I found that selective colour came in handy because I wanted certain parts of the image to stand out and selective colour did this. There were three images that were created using depth of field and I just changed the saturation and the contrast for those images. Looking thought the images I had taken I saw two that I thought would create a good contrast of autumn and spring because I could crop the images to the same size and this would show it nicely. I was thinking of writing autumn and spring under the images but I thought the images show what the image is supposed to look like. 

Overall I think this shoot shows some of my best work because I was relaxed when taking the images and I could try out anything that I thought would look good. 

 This image is one of the images that I didn't edit very much because I was happy with the outcome. I really like the way the depth of field has created three different areas in the image because it shows the depth and contrast in the image. The centre part which is in-focused I think really stands out as the main focus and I'm really happy with this. I did try and desaturate the image but I thought the green is the main colour and taking it away changed the overall look of the image.

This image is the contrast between autumn and spring and I think it really works. I think the dull brown/grey colours represents the dyeing paints in autumn and the bright green from the spring images shows the regrowth of new life. When editing this image I wanted to create a boarder of some sort so I used a drop shadow to make the images look 3D. I cropped the two images so the leaves were in the centre of the image and I think this makes the images look better next to each other. I think this image tells a story and this is my favourite image from this shot.

For the next shoot I plan to......