Final Shoot and Evaluation.

This is the link to my final shoots contact list.

http://issuu.com/josieb/docs/final_shoot-_light_dsdn

This project seemed to be the one that I struggled with the most. A lack of decision making at the start of the project showed me that later on in the project development was harder to explore with deadlines quickly coming along. If i was to do this project again i would definitely pick a camera effect a lot better, discover the pro's and con's of this aspect, so that i am readily prepared for each photo shoot. This is evident in my final collection, because of the lack of judgement and decision making earlier on. The collection i feel is a little disfunctional and have no flow too it. This is because i was learning as i was shooting. Although this is not a bad thing, it is just visibly portrayed in my images.

More Bokeh Research

These are just some of the images that i found and that helped inspire me to create my final collection.

This project has definitely been my hardest due to the switching around of ideas, however i learnt a lot from this technique and have captured a few images within this collection that i would never of been able to before. These are just some images that through out my learning in photography i hope to excel and create even better than these ones i found.

Bokeh and Precedent Two.

"In photography, bokeh (Originally  /ˈboʊkɛ/,^[1]  /ˈboʊkeɪ/ boh-kay — also sometimes heard as  /ˈboʊkə/ boh-kə,^[2] Japanese: [boke]) is the blur,^[3][4] or the aesthetic quality of the blur,^[5][6][7] in out-of-focus areas of an image. Bokeh has been defined as "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light".^[8] However, differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause some lens designs to blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce blurring that is unpleasant or distracting—"good" and "bad" bokeh, respectively.^[3] Bokeh occurs for parts of the scene that lie outside the depth of field. Photographers sometimes deliberately use ashallow focus technique to create images with prominent out-of-focus regions.

Bokeh is often most visible around small background highlights, such as specular reflections and light sources, which is why it is often associated with such areas.^[3] However, bokeh is not limited to highlights; blur occurs in all out-of-focus regions of the image." - (Wikipedia)

This is my idea that is a combination of the previous stencil idea. It involves the same sort of effects and i hope that is will be a more simpler way to explore this photography idea. After contacting richard he also sent me this link to understanding this idea and concept a little better. This you-tube video then became my final precedent.

Precedent Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPcdWxhLwoA

Second Photo shoot.

This is the very small contact sheet for the second shoot there is hardly any shots as i knew that it wasn't going to work about approx 15 photo's so learnt and developed from the experience and was time to think of ways to improve it. Aim is to do a wee google search for ideas that are similar to this one however don't involve a tricky stencil.

Link for second shoot: http://issuu.com/josieb/docs/2nd_shoot_-_light

The Big Fail.

I created a stencil to add to the effect of each photo.  Following the instructions from one of my precedents i created my very own star stencil. (the picture below)

However when it came down to taking the photo's the pictures ended up looking like this instead.. I'm unsure as to why this happened, perhaps the aperture was wrong or the stencil was too big for the lense. In conclusion this effect would be fantastic if it worked, however it didn't so now i need to think of a better way to create the same sort of effect.

HDR task

Manual.

We combined 3 photo's and manually merged each other to create this image above. Each one we chose the best aspects to create this overall picture that you wont necessarily get with one shot. I worked on this weekly task again with Daisy Cox.

Auto.

This is the automative version of the weekly task. It looks extremely different compared to the manual one i did. I think I was a little too tame when it came to reaching the pictures full potential.

city lights at night.

An idea that i am thinking about exploring further. It is a combination of the the contrasting darker surroundings and the bright manufactured lights that really capture my interest. I hope to make a stencil in order to create such a shape. Just like the precedant below, that was shown to use during class.