Evaluation
Shoot 12's surreal approach was a successful one. I intended to shrink members of my family to fit in scenes of tea and biscuits and teapots because my previos shoot inspired me to excel onto this topic. I've often found adding miniature people into normal settings quite tricky because it's a struggle to make it look like they are actually in the picture. Often the lighting on the person just ins't right enough to make them being in the settings look realistic. I have decided after this shoot, that even though it was quite successful, I won't be shrinking people into settings like these again. I'd rather shrink one person or increase the size of a person rather than an assortment of people. I liked the set up that I created becuase I thought that this was done successfully and looked like a genuine tea set up, I'm just half and half with the pieces that I've created.
Shoot 12's surreal approach was a successful one. I intended to shrink members of my family to fit in scenes of tea and biscuits and teapots because my previos shoot inspired me to excel onto this topic. I've often found adding miniature people into normal settings quite tricky because it's a struggle to make it look like they are actually in the picture. Often the lighting on the person just ins't right enough to make them being in the settings look realistic. I have decided after this shoot, that even though it was quite successful, I won't be shrinking people into settings like these again. I'd rather shrink one person or increase the size of a person rather than an assortment of people. I liked the set up that I created becuase I thought that this was done successfully and looked like a genuine tea set up, I'm just half and half with the pieces that I've created.
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| This was possibly the most successful outcome of the four that I created. I feel that the poses I told my models to do worked successfully in fitting with the crockery in the photograph. However, when I've added people into surreal photography before, they never seem to look fully blended into the image. In future I will look at some tutorials in order to make them blend with the picture more realistically. I liked the set up that I created because the mixture of colours is effective and the bowls/cups etc. are attractive instead of plain and boring. Having my family in this picture is more effective than random people in my opinion so I am pleased with the outcome of this. |
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| If I had to choose possibly the least successful photograph of today's session, then it would probably be this one above. Shoot 12 contained a theme of tea cups and tea in general, but this image doesn't really work together very well. I like the idea of placing miniature people on miniature house trees, but I could have perhaps made my mum pose casually sitting down instead of drinking a cup of tea. The composition was well structured in how the tree is placed in the middle of the frame, but to improve an image like this I could have had the table stretch across the whole half of the frame instead of beginning to curve off. This unfortunately spoils the composition in being 100% successful. |
Progression
To improve my surreal approach I will be going back to food/sweets because this is something that I liked photographing in the previous shoot. I want to look at tutorials on YouTube on how to create effective splashes and explosions in Photoshop. I intend to make an apple look as though it has exploded along with perhaps a splash aswell. Once I have looked at these tutorials, I will take photographs suitable for editing and test out my skills on photoshop to see if this will make my photography effective. The reason that I'm looking at explosion/splashes is because I've taken many pictures on things falling or coming out of something, and this time I want to actually make an impact within the photograph by having splashes and drops accompany the falling theme. This way, I will be able to capture even more effective photographs in the next shoot with all of the skills I learn in this one.
To improve my surreal approach I will be going back to food/sweets because this is something that I liked photographing in the previous shoot. I want to look at tutorials on YouTube on how to create effective splashes and explosions in Photoshop. I intend to make an apple look as though it has exploded along with perhaps a splash aswell. Once I have looked at these tutorials, I will take photographs suitable for editing and test out my skills on photoshop to see if this will make my photography effective. The reason that I'm looking at explosion/splashes is because I've taken many pictures on things falling or coming out of something, and this time I want to actually make an impact within the photograph by having splashes and drops accompany the falling theme. This way, I will be able to capture even more effective photographs in the next shoot with all of the skills I learn in this one.
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