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...

Scotland

These are a few images I took whilst I was in Scotland in March 2013

 

This one I couldn't decide whether I preferred it in black and white or colour so I decided to put both on :)

Hollywood Portatiture

Audrey Hepburn

 

     

In these images Audrey Hepburn is looking directly into the camera apart from the very last one where she is looking slightly above the camera. The way she poses with the blank expression on her face & with the way the light captures her she looks very elegant and pure. With the last image the dark background against the light on her pale skin gives her a glamorous appearance. There is great contrast in these image as there is a range of whites to greys and blacks. My favourite pose out of thees is the one she is doing on the fourth image as she looks slightly seductive but at the time really sweet and innocent.

Water Droplet Set Up

Yesterday we did a workshop on water droplets in the studio. To actually do the shoot was a lot easier then what I thought but it took me a few attempts to get a decent photo because I couldn't get the timing right with pressing the shutter release as the liquid left the bag.

The equipment we needed to do this shoot was:

A camera

Zoom lens

Tripod

Flash gun/Speed light

Hot sheer attachment

Tray of water

Food colouring

Milk

Bucket of clean water

Sandwich bags

Pins

Two light stands

A thin piece of wood

I really enjoyed doing this shoot and leaning how to do it because it is something I have always wanted to be able to do. The shoot went really well, we worked well together as a group and each of us had something to do and together between us we took over 200 photographs, even though only a handful of them turned out to be decent images.

Martin Waugh

http://www.liquidsculpture.com/index.htm

These are a few examples of work I found from Martin Waugh. This is the kind of results I wanted to achieve with my attempts but once I actually come to photograph the water droplets it is a lot harder then what it looks with getting the timing right. I think the photographer has edited the colour in these images because the reflection on the water is a contrasting colour to the water droplet but it makes the splash really stand out.

Water Droplets

These images are a small selection from the images my group and I took in the studio using a camera & a flash gun. I have slightly edited then by altering the contrast, brightness & saturation of them. We had a lot of fun experimenting with different liquids & backgrounds but I found that dropping milk into water worked the best.

Home Studio

Models: Kelly & Cadence

 Models: Kelly & Cadence

Model: Cadence

I found using my home studio quite a challenge to begin with as my lights where unpredictable & it was hard to block out all the natural lighting coming in from outside. However I found it was much easier for the models as they didn't have to worry about getting to places on time and children were much more at ease.