Final Pieces

These are my 2 final pieces that I made. I really liked my outcome of this as I used a film camera for both of these images. I like the colours, how earthy toned they are and how they link to my theme of nature as the settings I have used is the forest. I have incorporated a model as a subject to break up the scene to draw your eye to a specific location in the frame. I like how the subject is obscured by a naturally occurring light leak within the film camera, which happened by accident, however I really found the outcome successful as it lined up perfectly with the subject, making it look mysterious.

This picture I also found successful as the photograph is candid as he didn't know I was taking the picture. I really like the colour scheme of dark and light greens and browns from the environment. I added a lens flare on the bottom left for emphasis and put this into Photoshop to create a double exposure effect in the background. I also like how the subject is central on the canvas making him the main focus. 

Experimentation

For this photo I adjusted the levels to create more contrast and it really picks up the deep tones on the bark. I then applied a a photo filter, orange tinted, to create a subtle sepia effect. I also cropped it slightly to make the twigs more focused upon. 

Contact Sheets

I felt this photoshoot was very successful as the weather was slightly gloomy, I was able to achieve a gritty and dark theme due to the weather.

Mock experimentation

Here is my original photo of a nature shoot I have taken in a forest. I then took this into Photoshop and experimented with the saturation and the levels. This instantly gave the trees life and instantly changes the season, because the colours are so vidid and fresh.I like the use of lines in this photo as the trees are in rows, this makes the trees seem like they are never ending.

I then edited this further by using selective colouring on the red to tone this previous saturation down and make it look more realistic and natural. 

I then edited this photo by rotating the picture and cropping to make it straight. I really liked this outcome as the original involved earthy tones such as browns and greens and appeared perhaps gloomy, however due to making changes into Photoshop with the use of selective colouring, the picture is instantly full of colour really bring out the browns into vivid reds and the green leaves really accentuated to really gives the picture an uplifting mood and changes the season.