FMP

These are my final four images from my FMP! Some feedback would be much apprecited :) 

Black Country Museum

Black Country Living Museum.

Here are a few photographs I took when I visited the Black Country Living Museum back in November 2013.

FMP Ideas

After two years on my HND Photography course the time has come for me to start my final major project (FMP), this is a project that I can photograph whatever I decide. 

These are three ideas that I have come up with to have a think about for my FMP.

-Portraiture – For this idea I would look at the history of portraiture & try to re-create the same effect but with a slight modern twist.

I couldn’t find who actually took this photograph but it was taken in 1870 & is called ‘portrait of a trumpeter’

-Street – As my main strength in photography is photography people I thought I could photograph people on the street. I have an idea of sitting in the same spot & watch people passing by waiting for the right moment to photograph them, like the decisive moment by Henri Cartier-Bresson.

-Family Snapshots – My family are a very big part of me especially my nieces and nephew so I have an idea of going out for the day, even if it is just to he park for a couple of hours to feed the ducks & play on the swings. I will snapshot the three children throughout the day being 100% natural & showing a variety of emotions.

Car Photography

I wanted to try some more night photography to have a play around with different exposures so me and my boyfriend decided to go out and take some photographs of his car in different locations.

 

These are a few of the images I took..

 

 

 

All I used to take these images was my camera and a tripod. I set my ISO to 200 & experimented with different apertures and shutter speeds. My inspiration for car photography is Chris Godfrey, someone I study with, because he is amazing at car photography & has produced some great images http://chrisgodfreyphotography.blogspot.co.uk/. I am happy with the way my photographs turned out considering it was my time but I think I am going to do a little bit more research & try again in some different locations. 

 

Witley Court

Yesterday as a college group we went to spend the day at Witley Court. The weather was great for photographers and we spent hours walking around the buildings & garden taking lots of images. As I have never used it before I wanted to use my Lomography Diana camera, so I used a 120mm black and white film with a wide angle lens & then I changed the back or my camera to use a 35mm lens with a telephoto lens. I was a bit worried about using this camera because what you see through the viewfinder isn't the same as what you will see on the negative through the lens so I wont know how they have turned out until they have finished being developed. I used my digital camera to take a couple of images but not many because I had already walked around the area twice taking images and to be honest it seemed like it dragged a bit so I really didn't feel like walking around a third time. However, I suppose the consequence to this would be if my films didn't come out I wouldn't have any images from the day.

Here are the few image I took on my digital camera.

Typography

These are a few images I took in today's session that we had to add typography to...

iMovie

This is my first attempt of creating a portfolio using iMovie.

 I only have 6 images on here from my holiday in Turkey 2012 because I just wanted to have a play around with imove to see if I was able to do it.

                                                       

Once I have sorted out all the images I would like on my portfolio, I will create a new movie with all the images & post it on here for you all to see.


How to create a portfolio using iMovie.

1. You will need to open all the images to you in your portfolio in either lightroom or photoshop.

2. Once they are all open, change them to about 5x7 with a resolution of about 200 because they need to be a small file to be able to upload them to blogger.

3. Drag & drop all images into iMovie in the order you would like them to appear.

4. Now its time to personalize it however you want by adding transactions, changing the speed, adding text if you want it.

5. Once you have your movie they way you want it go back onto your project library, right click & export using quick time. It is ideal to use quick time as it is liable to use on most computers.