digital

Photoshop
I had used this before but always good to be shown again what tools are for what and what can be achieved using the software. Some tools I had not been shown before like the clone stamp tool, gradient and the mask tool. I practiced using some of these on some photos.

I want to get better at this! There is probably so many things that can be achieved using digital manipulation that I still don’t know how to do and most things I did took me some time.


Panoramic
Something ive not done before either. I found it annoying and tricky to line up the images in Photoshop and hard to match up the colours, contrast and brightness in each of them as some single photos were exposed to more light than others. I experimented with mirroring too and using the transform tool I rotated a few to get a abstract landscape. I would probably do more of this!

Old camera

Another first-using a non-digital camera with a film. Luckily I got the light right by using the aperture and not using in the dark for my film to turn out fine. Some of them were better than others and some needed to be developed differently than others with variety of exposure to the photo paper. Hopefully after this I will feel comfortable enough to develop more films without help, just using the instructions to direct me. When it came to dodging and burning more interesting images could be made. I also realised with analogue more mistakes can be made and you could risk ruining film if it is not developed properly or not taken with the right light to begin with, whereas with digital you know what your getting , the outcome is direct.

repetition idea

 My first idea for the project brief: take 5 black and white photos using unrelated objects creating a relationship that was not already there.

so I took some objects I found around the house which were unrelated-sweets,bottles,ties,shoes, I guess they can be related some of them in some ways but I wanted to relate them through photographing them in repetition. 

 this is simple,quite like it

 out of focus

 I prefer the coloured ones but putting the contrast in black and white looks quite nice.

 Tried with different sweets

 looking at the patterns created as an outcome of placing single objects in multiples together in repetition. Where the negative space is left around the outlines of the objects it creates other shapes that are not there if placed singly.     

 These didn't work so well 

 ties

 after this I thought of the idea of creating relationships through reflection instead which turned out better, I could try this idea again maybe