Research and Response

So I serious lacked research to back up why I took my sunset shots. Originally it was just because it was pretty and on my way home from the market hall, and to the market hall in the mornings, I often see the glorious colours in the clouds as the sun sets and rises.

Research-

Matt Mollow
I find Matt Mollow's  work aesthetically pleasing because he has managed to capture all the fantastic colours that I only get to see if I am lucky, most of the time the colours I get to see are washed out and pale, especially in comparison with his work.

Joseph Rossbach

Although I dont enjoy Rossbach's work as much as Matt Mollow, the results in his work is a far more realistic approach as to what I am able to capture myself. I live near a beach so shots of the sea is possible, although capturing a sunset set not as easily as the sun rises on my side of the Isle of Man and I know I wont be awake to see the sunrise.

Harri and Deepti
So far it is just an idea, but if the weather doesn't improve so I can get outside and take some more sunset shots, I will try and create sunsets using cut paper and shine light though them. Not sure if I will do this but i have research and I have bought some fair trade paper that is handmade which is coloured, so hopefully the light will interact nicely with the colour.

My DreamCatchers
As I have considered taking some photographs of my dream catchers that I have made, I feel like I ought to look at the different weaves and styles that can be used. The first image show my little bit of dream catcher research along with the original images that sparked my interest in taking more photographs of the dream catchers.

Response
Below are the contact sheets for the photographs I took using my Lumix G3 camera. Saved as jpegs as I would have run out of space on my sd card, my intention is to overlay some of the cloud images that i took and combine them using photoshop to try and make cloud lapses like photographer Matt Mollow created.

Phone Pictures

This is a compilation of all the photographs I took using my Sony xperia Z phone. Most of these were taken indoors or looking through a window of a car. My favorites are of the dream catchers. I may go take some more shots of dream catchers as I am currently making some in another project but could easily use them as subject matter as I have now decided to focus in the light as the sun sets.

Sunset and Cloud Shots

Below are the contact sheets for the 4edited images I showed in my previous post, along with all the other shots taken that evening.

Sunset Shots

These are four images which I edited after originally photographing the sunset at home in Laxey. No deep meaning behind them, I had to experiment for this project, I liked the colours, so I capture the colours. I enjoyed taking and editing them so much that I think I will go take some more shots.

Experimental Photoshopping

 



Above are edits of some of the artichoke photographs. In the bottom two shots I have added in an edited version of a wire figure I made. I change the colours in photoshop using the curve tool to alter the colour balances. I prefer the bottom left to the bottom right because the string that the wire figure is attached to has been placed so the blue in the string and in the artichoke merge together. The bottom right figure has been warped because the string wouldn't cover the entire image which didn't work well, so I warped the figure to make it closer to the blue colours shown in the highlights
of the artichoke.

 

the green dreamcatcher has a spider web inspiured weave. The screen shot below the green is the image after altering the curve levels. The bottom left image is an inverted version of a wire eye of mexico I tried to make.  Right image is my wire figure i made with the background removed, unfortunatly the string it was attached to is still present, which is odd as everything appeared removed, but it is not important so no need to perfect the art of the eraser tool for that image.

Bus Ride Home

Once more, earlier on in the project, when I didn't have a more directed focus to work towards, I decided to record my journey on the bus home from the market hall to Laxey. Like with the sound recording, the files are way too big to even try and attempt to upload them onto this blog so I want to speed them up and compress the file size too.

Using Adobe Premier Pro to shorten and speed up the videos so they only  last a few minutes instead of realtime, I then had to use Adobe Media Encoder to compress the file size further for the video showing my journey home from Douglas to Onchan (first video).

 note:there should be no sound on these videos, I removed any sound if there was any as I was only trying to capture what I could see, I also don't think the mic was turned on on my phone but I didnt want to record noise anyway.The video on the right, that should end at 2.25 too... unfortunately the video files I had aren't on my sd card or laptop as I was using the computer at the market hall.

Studio Lighting - Coloured Gels

The 5 photographs around the right and bottom sides are a few of the shots I took whilst experimenting in the studio with coloured gels placed in front of the red head lights. When we were in the studio we found some paper models and an artichoke lying around so we used them as our subject matter.