LO5: Gallery

LO5 Reviewing

 When looking at the images I have taken from my shoot you can see, I have made sure in every picture to try and capture the raw emotion from my model in each individual picture. I thought to myself when it came to the editing stage of my project that I wanted to try and change up the scenery in each picture by either manipulating the colour of the scene of by manipulating the ball or model in order to try and either create a sense of life within my picture.

 I believe that by creating a sense of life to my picture people within the gallery will take a greater interest with my photography and feel drawn in more by the idea of sports photography that almost captures the motion perfectly. I personally believe that increasing the shutter speed was the best thing for my shoot in general, because I was able to take some really good in motion pictures of my model.

When people denote my photography within a gallery the emotions my picture should connote should be a sense of excitement, this is due to the facial expressions that my model is using within every shot, you can literally see the passion on his face within the shoot.

If I could do something better I would probably change the outfit of my model, in order to possibly create a more personal picture so the audience could get more of an understanding on who he is and how much basketball actually means to him within his day to day life. I believe this would create a great amount of spectacle among the audience and attract more people to spectate my work within a gallery.

LO5 Final Photos

The reason in why I chose to produce this photograph in black and white with a vibrant coloured basketball is because I wanted to create a main focal point within my photograph. Also I believe that the colour helps capture the motion of the basketball bouncing almost as if it is the only sense of life within the monochrome environment.

The main thing I have tried to do within this picture is try and capture the environment in the best way I possibly can. The reason why I have tried to do this is because I think the motion within the picture is best captured with these colours, this is because the tone of this filter creates suspense in a sense when looking at the photograph, because you wonder what he could be doing next.

As you can see what I have tried to do with these two edited shots is make the main focal point the basketball, whilst lowering the contract and brightness and converting the background to black and white. the reason why I have done this is because I believe that it is a more eye catching way of gaining the attention of the audience. Another thing I have chosen to do is use the sports photography feature on the Canon camera, this is because I believe the image will feel more realistic if it was in motion.

Within this picture I am still trying to make the viewers feel a type of emotion when viewing my photograph. The way in which I am trying to capture a feeling or emotion is through the colours and visuals I have used within my photography. The reason why I decided to mirror the image using an using an optical illusion type pattern was due to the fact that for this piece I was inspired by the theme of a kaleidoscope. This is because I was generally interested in the way shapes and colours are used with kaleidoscopes in terms of emotion, and I wanted to see how it made the audience feel through denotations.

Within this piece I have decided to take advantage of the shadowed areas by giving them colour. The reason why I decided to give the shadow colour was to add into the effect that an action was taking. The empathises has been placed on the shadow rather than the character himself.

When it comes to the last two photographs I have edited I tried to create a similar theme to both the images. This is due to the fact that I believe I could a lot of various things incorporating the digital graphics I have used within this picture. I also believe that using this editing technique helps build into the effect that the model is in motion within the photograph, it helps gains the audiences attention and builds into a photograph that carries suspense within the pictures.

LO4: Evaluation

The brief has asked me to produce a range of photographs based on the theme of identities. So I decided to study the identity of Salik Nawaz by asking I'm about his interests and reaching a conclusion that he is really interested in sports, especially basketball. I took inspiration from sports photographers in order to gain motivation/ an idea of what I could produce for this piece.

Andrew D. Bernstein gave me quite a lot of inspiration for my shoot. I think the main reason why I enjoyed viewing his work was due to the fact that he could capture the most perfect moment of in motion action where that athlete is preforming a move or a play during a basketball game. When it came to my shoot I made sure I was equipped with the Canon 650D camera, I changed the shutter speed to sports mode which allowed me to take a large range of in motion pictures capturing the motion of each move my mode made within the shoot. I also made sure I captured some photographic features such as centre of interest and composition, whilst maintaining the genre style of still life in order to create a sense of verisimilitude for the viewers. The reason why this project has ,managed to stick to the brief correctly is due to the fact that I have looked into my models personal interests that help create his identity and included them within the shoot in order to also show the audience how passionate he feels towards the sport of basketball as part of his identity.

My intenstions within this shoot were to capture the emotion of Salik in different whys through editing my photographs, this is becauseI believe that I could be able to make the target audience feel different kinds of emotions and feeling when looking at the photographs. I believe that the target audience would understand the meaning straight away when they viewed my pictures by denoting my model playing basketball and enjoying himself. My belifs was that they would connote how much he loves basketball and would feel that love of basketball within each individual photograph. However my intensions were to change the moods sometimes by editing the colours of the environment in some type of way.

Looking at my portfolio of the finished product from my shoot I have come to an understanding on why I had chosen these pictures. Personally I believe the reason why I have used this photographs is due to the fact that each individual picture gives the viewer a certain feeling either based on the colours used or the effect of saturation or change of HUE within the picture. This is also due to the fact that I wanted the audience to be able to express some sort of emotion when looking at my photographs either through colour connotations or environmental connotations.

I believe as the photographer it is my responsibility to give life to my photography, and for my the best way to show that life was through the expression of colours and motion captured pictures.

The tools i mainly focused on using whilst on Photoshop were: select took, magic wand, magic eraser, layers, colour layer, paint brush,saturation, HUE, contrast and black & white. These are quite simple tools to use, but the way in which I used them helped compliment my pictures for my portfolio in quite a unique way. I believe when it came to editing my pictures on Photoshop, each one got better with experience. This was primarily due to the fact that quite a lot of the things I have done on Photoshop you have to learn on the spot, which I felt was very exciting for an inspiring when trying to tap into creative genius.

I feel like I could've took my shoot at various locations to meet the brief more but I am still pleased with the outcome of my shoot. thinking back to my shoot now, I believe a photographic technique I could've used to improve my photo would be the idea of leading lines, this to help focus a centre of interest within my pictures. I believe I could further develop my skills on Photoshop in order to produce high grade and good quality photographs further along the line, this can be done through practice within my own free time in order to get better familiar with the tolls and different settings and features of Photoshop.

LO4 Editing

LO3 Unedited images

Here are the unedited images the photographs I have taken using the sports photography feature on the camera to capture in motion images of my model.I also tried using the manual settings on the camera but I believe that the fast shutter speed on the sports photography feature makes for a better picture.

 I believe that using the sports photography feature on the camera to capture a range of moving pictures was a creative means of producing a sports photography scene, this is because you're able to see the transition from picture to picture giving you the effect as if you were there in during that time at that exact moment.

With my photographs tken you can see that I have used a high depth of field due to the fact that my models actions will always gain the attention of the viewer first no matter what. I made him the centre of interst so your eyes are automatically drawn into him when you look upon my photograph. Due to my shoot being outside, I have used only natural light for my shoot. I personally believe that this compliments my model more rather than having a studio shoot due to the fact that we are seeing how he looks under natural light which makes the photogrph have more of a natural feel to it.

What I tried to do when taking these photographs was to try and capture the emotion of the models facial expressions whilst he plays basketball, I did this because I wanted to give the audience an idea of how this certain sport makes the individual feel in terms of the excitement he gets when playing basketball.

My photograhy fits into my brief because I am looking into the identity of Salik and by doing that I have come to find out he loves basketball with a passion, so what I have tried to do is show the audience how much Salik loves basketball by just giving them an idea through his interaction with a basketball.

Editing will enchance the meaning behind my photos by allowing me to use different effects which should be able to change the nature of the photo. This means I will be able to change the mood of photo which will have an affect on how the audience view my photogrphy. I believe this will add diversity wthin my photography an allow me to show my target audience all the emotions within each photograph.