Work Diary - Shoot 13

Evaluation

For this shoot I chose to look at capturing photographs that I could take through the process of photoshop. I wanted to attempt some skills on this editing software in order to create more effective pieces of work. I looked at the exploding effect through having previously taken falling and exploding photographs that would have been more effective with splashes and splats of the subject. Therefore, taking a picture of just an apple wouldn't be that interesting, but with the explosion effect it's miles more eye catching to the viewer. Having said this, attempting it on human faces was also something that I thought was an extremely creative way of portraiture photography. I enjoyed performing the editing of these images which was easily carried out through watching a YouTube tutorial. Because this was a successful attempt, I will definitely be exploring and developing it through photographs in my future shoots. 

I liked my idea of applying an explosion effect to a persons face. I photographed myself here with quite a blank and down expression which works well with the theme of erosion; the splats look as though I am beginning to erode. This has been conveyed through one half of me fizzing away. One side of me is unaffected, whereas the other half isn't as clear. The composition of having me fill the centre of the frame is successful because it means those who look at this image will immediately be drawn to my face. Moreover, this type of photography could be interpreted in how people can sometimes lose themselves, and by applying an explosive pattern over one half of me I am portraying to a viewer that I'm perhaps broken (even if realistically I'm not). It's a thought provoking piece and I'd enjoy developing this idea in other people's faces perhaps in an upcoming shoot. 

This would have to be my favourite photograph out of the two from my 13th shoot. My reasons for this are that I set out in the beginning to convey an exploding apple through photoshop tools, and by the end of this session I had successfully created my intended piece. I also added a radial blur in this photograph which makes the explosion have a larger impact; something that I unfortunately forgot to do in the one of my face. I feel that having the apple sit on a breadboard worked well because this beige tone is effective with the contrasting white wall, and dark red subject. It definitely allows the apple to stand out more. Framing it in the centre was successful, but makes me want to alter the composition in future pieces. I might look at taking a photograph of a green and a red apple, one half of the red one being visible on the left hand side and one half of the green one being visible on the right hand side.

Progression

This shoot has definitely boosted my inspiration when it comes down to being creative. I have found an enjoyment through photographing food items in this project overall, and now I have more experience with techniques to make food photography more appealing. I'd like to carry out a photograph of a red and green apple as described in the evaluation of my second photograph. I'd also like to be creative with a lucozade bottle and its frame. I could edit in the explosion effect to make the bottle more effective, however I'd also like to perhaps take pictures of four different coloured lucozade bottles and then edit them to construct just one bottle; therefore one bottle including four different flavours. This will be more understandable when I actually create this piece in shoot 14. 

This inspired me when I saw it.