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.

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 :)

Coventry Cathedral

Panorama 

Just something I tried out from the images I took at the old Coventry Cathedral.

My attempt

Marlene Dietrich

 When doing my Hollywood style images I wanted to recapture the image in the left but when I come to do it the lighting was actually really simple so my tutor wanted me to do something a little bit more difficult so I chose the image on the right.

The contrast in the second image isn't as great as the first but there is a lot more different grey tones.

This is the photograph I took to practice getting the pose right but I did this when I was doing my original image. However when it came to changing my image I didn't have time to do a practice shot, I had to just hope for the best.

To the left is my lighting diagram of how the lights where set up in the studio to photograph this shot.

The image below is my original image that I took but I had to take 10 images to get it right. The lighting isn't 100% but it was the best  could get it plus we ran out of time.

The image I wanted to recreate with my attempt of creating it.

I struggled with editing my image because its been a while since iv edited photographs thoroughly as I don't really like editing my image. However I am really happy with the outcome because I think I captured it quite well and it turned out a lot better then what I expected it to.