Personal Shoot 12 Work Record - Flowers

Preparation

For this shoot I had to make sure that I had a good variety of flowers to take photos of, in order to present them in an interesting way.  I am going to buy at least two different bunches of flowers with lots of different flowers in them in order to prepare for the photoshoot.  I also need to make sure that I have my camera ready with the lens that I need in order to get as close to the subjects as possible.

What I Hope To Achieve

I am hoping that I am going to be able to get a good variety of images that I can piece together into a grid format, showing the differences in the flowers and nature.  I think that it will be interesting to look at and develop as all flowers are different and simply putting them all next to each other, will create  really interesting effect.  I am going to also experiment with the black and white effect, to see what type of images I can create.  I think that this will add to the variety and also add another dimension.  i think this would be a good idea to experiment with as I can show how all flowers are different in the way that they look but they are all the same in the sense that they are all part of the same nature group. I hope to create something slightly similar to this image below but with more of a precise photo taking skill.

What I Actually Achieved

I managed to get a good variety of flowers together, from about 3 different bunches of flowers.  I had a really good variety and I was able to get some really interesting and close-up images of them.  I decided to experiment with different types of lighting to see the different types of images that I could get and I am really happy with the way that they turned out.  This is one of the edits that I have made, that I am most happy with. 

I decided to piece this image together in this way, to make it more different to a basic square.  I wasn't sure how it was going to turn out, but I think that it actually makes the image look a lot more interesting.  I decided to create it with two seperate images of the same flower, at different sides of the image with a completely different flower in between them to create a sense of contrast.  I thought that this was a good idea with all of the different angles that I had taken the images from.  Along with this, I decreased the saturation slightly so that all of the images would blend nicely together, which I think has added to the overall effect of the image.  Overall, I am very happy with how this edit has turned out and I am going to work on creating more, using more interesting ideas and editing techniques. 

What I Am Going To Do Next

I am going to work towards creating more intricate and interesting edits, to make the idea of multiple imagery seem a lot more advanced.  I think that this would be a good idea to not just get a goof variety of actual flowers, but a good variety of edits, to add to my portfolio. 

Personal Shoot 12 Edits - Flowers

Personal Shoot 12 Contact Sheets - Flowers

Personal Shoot 11 Work Record - Multiple Exposure Development

Preparation

For this shoot I had to make sure that I had the available resources to make the overall photographs look a lot better at the end.  As I am not going to have direct access to the studio for this shoot, I am going to use the sky as the background, as I am expecting the sky to be completely white.  I also have two separate models to take photos of, along with an abundance of different plants in order to blend them with the subjects and their arms/hands.

What I Hope To Achieve

For this shoot I am hoping that I am going to be able to get some really interesting multiple exposure images.  For this shoot, I have looked at Aneta Ivanova and Christoffer Relander, in particular Relander, to get inspiration for this photoshoot.  As these two photographers have had a lot of influence on me, I thought that it would be a good idea to do a development of my multiple exposure work, to try and capture what they have shown, in my own way.  I have hoping to mimic the kind of work that they have created, but giving it my own individual flare, which I hope to do, to a professional level.  These two images created by Christoffer Relander, have had a big influence on me and I hope that this is the type of photography that I will be able to get when I complete this shoot.

What I Actually Achieved

I managed to get a good variety of images, although I didn't manage to get the facial photos that I wanted in order to edit together the multiple exposures that I wanted.  I attempted to experiment with distorting the facial image to try and make it look the way I wanted.  As this didn't work, I tried to make it work with the images that I had.  Overall, I think that the images that I managed to get together, look really good and professional and I am really happy with how they turned out.  I decided to experimented with the idea of black and white, as well as keeping one of them in colour to see what the outcome looked like.  I was happy with both and decided to keep creating more multiple exposures with this idea in mind.  These are two of my favourite edits, one of them being black and white and the other in colour.

This was the first edit that I made and I was really happy with the outcome.  I liked the black and white effect especially with this image as it added to the overall look. I like the way that I have managed to blend all of the three of the images together to make it look like the image has been created in the actual camera itself rather that been put together in photoshop.  This was what I was trying to create when it came to the editing process so I am really happy with the way that tho particular image turned out.

This was my favourite edit from the shoot.  I like the way that I had kept it in colour, as I think that it added to the overall look of the image.  I like that you can see the slight green colour from the holly as it adds another sort of dimension to the image.  I think that the hand in the image is exactly how I wanted it to look and I think that I have managed to line up the face, especially with the eyes, really well.  At first I found editing this image kind of difficult, as I didn't know how I was going to piece it together, in regards to the positioning of the eyes. The way that I have made this entire image work together.



What I Plan To Do Next

I am going to make some more edits, to add to the variety that I already have.  I think that this is a good thing to have as it adds to the variety throughout my portfolio.  In regards to my next shoot, I am going to look at flowers and the variety that you get with flowers.  I am going to put these images into a grid format to show the variety which I think might be really interesting, representing all the different types of flower.  I might also look at creating some overlay images to add to the grid images.

Shoot 11 - Edits

Shoot 11 - Contact Sheets

Facial Features Shoot - Contact Sheets