Shoot 10

Work Record

This shoot I want to to tie a flower to a rock and put it underwater so it floats. I want to captured the bubbles from the stones and to create an interesting image. I think selective colour will work well for this image because I will use bright coloured flowers and I think if I make the colour the focal point of the image. I hope to achieve about four images that are all different compositions and maybe angles. 

Preparation:

• Jug
• Two flowers
• Water
• Stones
• The white background
• Camera
• Two lights 

I thought this shoot went really well for a shoot that I didn't come up with until an hour before I booked the studio. After doing nine shoots I was stuck on ideas and someone said what about floating a flower in water and I developed that idea the the images I creaded. I really like the images and I like the angles that I tried out. Getting the lighting right was the hardest because glass would reflect and the water and this was hard to get right so I spent a long time with getting the lights in the right place and the reflectors. Because I spent a lot of time changing the lighting I had less time to shoot but I believe it was worth it because I really like the images. 

When editing these images I used selective colour for two of the images and just changed the levels, curves and the contrast of the other two images. I think the selective colour works really well because it highlights the colour of the flower. I am happy I thought of using selective colour and I am happy with all the edits I did for this shoot. 

Overall I am happy with the four images I created and I think for a random shoot it shows some of my best work. 

This image I can't decide if I like of not because I don't know if I like the line created by the edge of the table and the light. I do image the browny yellow tint over the image because I think it makes it more interesting and old looking.  I like that the jug is slight off centre because it shows makes sense to me. I think the shadow works as-well. When editing I changes the levels and curves and the contrast. I can't remember if I added a tint or if it was there from the light but either or it works. 

This image is my favourite because I like the angle of the image and  the use of the selective colour. When editing this image I selected the flower and then inverted the selection and desaturated the rest. This made the flower the brightest. I didn't desaturate the background completely because I wanted it to look realistic. I think this image will be one of my final pieces. I took the image at angle because I wanted to do something different, rather then taking similar images.