Work Diary - Shoot 2

Evaluation

For shoot 2, I done half of it at home and then half of it in college in the studio. I wanted to look at photographs that would portray evidence of light. I used a crystal that I've had for years, and took my home photographs by allowing the sunlight to reflect all of the colours of the spectrum. In the studio at college, I then used a torch to shine on the crystal, which meant that lots of blue tones and blue lights were reflected off of it because the room that I was shooting in was extremely dark. I preferred the photographs that I took at my house because the sunlight conveyed more rainbow colours rather than blues and greens like the torch. There was a wider variety of tones with the sunlight and I felt that the reflections were more evident in the home photographs, even though they wasn't taken with a professional camera. I will be improving these home shots by taking the exact same style of photo with the same composition, but just capturing the images in better quality.

This for me was the most successful photograph of the session. It's one that I took at home, where I sat it on the window sill and let the sunlight create an exaggeration in the colours of the spectrum. I edited in the black background because I believe this is a much better contrast between the surface and the crystal. If I left the background an ivory shade it would not focus the attention on the crystal as well as it does in this image. The main formal elements in this picture are colour, shape and pattern, all contributing to it's successful outcome. 

This was a photograph that I took in the photography studio. In this studio, lack of colours was projected from my crystal because of the dark surroundinds and this is an example of how dark my outcomes actually were without being photoshopped. The torch that I shon on the crystal really didn't do it any justice when you compare it to the pictures I was able to capture at home. I produced more successful pictures than this in the studio, but it was this one that conveyed the lack of photographic quality found in my studio shoot.

Progression

To progress my project, in the next shoot I will be looking at the sky if it is a sunny day as this is what I wanted to do after shoot 1. I want to focus on the clouds and perhaps create a multiple imagery if possible. I may want to look at colours against the blue sky, and will therefore find some bright flowers to hold up against it. I also want to look at contrasting colours being symbols for different weather conditions. I enjoyed looking at weather in photography through colours of the sky and I feel white skies portray a colder weather condition and a blue sky portrays a warmer condition.