Experimental images

For my first set of experimental images I went out into the college and shot as many different buildings as I could find, at different angles to experiment and see what kind of buildings I would like to shoot for my final images. I feel that this shoot was successful and I got a good amount of experimental images. I explored as much as possible using a range of different buildings as well as shooting techniques. After this experimental shoot around college it will help me to move forward and continue to shoot experimental images and develop into creating my final images. 

Multiple exposures

For this experiment I created multiple exposures using the camera instead of photoshop. To do this we used the studio, turning off all the lights and just using a flash, once we had our cameras ready and focused the person controlling the flash would turn out all the lights and using a slow shutter speed we pressed out shutters then whilst the flash was pressed several times during the exposure as the model moved about to create the multiple exposure as the camera would of captured the position of the person each time there was light, which was each time the flash was set off. Although this was difficult to get right and was a bit of a struggle at first, working as a team and taking it in turns to work the flash and be in front of the camera, I managed to create a good body of work using these techniques. Using different methods for the person to move around in front of the camera and thinking up different poses that are interesting, the one I find most interesting that we thought up was to do the 'hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil' poses, which I think working out successfully.

Solarisation

Using the old and new images I had previously shot in black and white I created a few solarisation images using photoshop. To do this I opened up the image in photoshop, created a background layer and inverted the image, which I then played around with by changing the opacity to bring down the invert slightly to a point where I felt the image looked better. Doing this helped me to experiment in this different way of editing an image and present it, and gave me the experience of using this technique to possibly use within experimenting throughout this project.

Old and new

For this experiment of photographing old and new I photographed objects that I felt was old and new in the same frame whilst photographing in black and white. Around the college I photographed objects together in one frame I felt represented this, things such as old and new buildings, paths etc. Out of these images I feel that the paths one works well because there is part of an old and a newly laid path/road. This helped me to experiment with different ways and processes of representing the theme of old and new and get an idea of a way to photograph old and new by capturing two object that represent the theme in the same frame. I feel that I was successful in experimenting with this, I captured both old and new in the same frame to represent the theme and have experimented with this technique which will help me as I move along with this project.

Evaluation excercise

I feel I have achieved my original intentions very well, I photographed using the intention of the old and new effect and feel I have been successful in doing so. The old and new effect is shown in this photograph by the road and the markings, on the right is old where the markings are fading away and the road is looking new, and on the right where the pavement has been newly laid and new road markings have been placed. This image has been correctly exposed and is straight. I could maybe of made the two sides of the images even so there is the same amount of each of the aspects shown. I have used some cropping by cropping out some of the road markings, but don't feel that it has given a bad effect on the image.