Week 7: Abstract Pattern

After taking more and more photos over the past weeks I've found that I am most interested in capturing the surrounding world rather than the people that inhabit it.
I've decided I want to concentrate more on taking abstract photos for the fine art practice of light.

As my subject matter is of contrasting urban city life with more natural objects I found that there are a lot of patterns in some of the pictures I take such as an overexposed natural light and artificial light spot present in the majority of my pictures but I found that I like it because it give the pictures more of an ambiguity and a sense of looking more into what the picture is about.

Week 6: Image Size and Editing

After going through how to change the pixels and the image sizes on photoshop in class I decided I wanted to find out a bit more about what else you can do with editing images. So I went on YouTube and found these helpful videos.. the only problem was that they went for 10 minutes or a bit longer but were still interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44mV3NsLmXw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9xjYx_Nh9s

Aireys Inlet

Over the weekend I went to Aireys Inlet on the Great Ocean Road and took lots of photos. I wanted to try and make more abstract pictures so I went down to the river to see what I could find.

While I was wondering around taking photos I noticed a little blue Wren bird or as they are now known as the 'Superb Fairywren' flying over towards my stepmothers new Subaru Forester, I ran after it because the vibrant colour of his blue and black Feathers really caught my eye.

He kept flying into the revision mirrors and staring at himself trying to figure what was going on...
I think he must have thought it was another bird in his territory that he needed to fend off because he kept attacking himself in the mirror and then would fly off and come back 5 minutes later and repeat the same process...

I learnt a lot more about being patient when I was trying to capture pictures of the blue Wren as he was so erratic and fast, making it hard to capture the majority of his movements so I got a lot of blurred images at first but finally got some still shots of him staring curiously at himself..



This shot was not taken at Airey's but at the Melbourne Zoo a while ago. I thought I would put it up as it goes with the theme of the photos from Airey's with all the wetland animals and natural still shots.







I really liked the simplicity of this mug and the way the lighting illuminated it so I took a black and white photo..

Experimenting with Effects

Collins Street 7am

Sepia: I took these on my way to work one Morning...

I've been learning more about how a photo can look and have a completely different atmosphere and feel about it especially when I changed these photos to Sepia I felt that you could appreciate the buildings and brick walking path more so than when it was in its original colour.

Week 5: Montage Selfportraits

These Photos were taken around Aireys Inlet over the weekend when I went to visit my step mum. Just thought I would put them up on the blog because they helped me to learn how to use the layer mask tool and set frames better in photoshop..

It was especially hard to get the shots around the lighthouse as their was a lot of people walking around and going up for tours but it was all just about being patient and waiting for the right moment.

The three middle shots are of my step mum Susan doing some yoga poses...

The first portrait that I decided to do was on some stairs at uni next to the bookshop. I didn't have a tripod but their was a shelf that I put the camera on instead which worked almost as well.
It was a bit harder trying to do it by myself too because I couldn't really tell if I was in the frame or out but it still worked relatively well.

Week 4: Organising Photos

I prefered this photo in colour...

The Black seemed to take away from the life
of the picture rather than highlight it...

We watched the second episode of the Genius of Photography this week and I learned a lot more about the ideas and themes that some photographers stuck with in their works.

I also really started to appreciate the way some photos looked better in black and white rather than colour as it can make them look more natural and highlights certain parts that can be drowned out and distracting when in colour like the photos below...



The Adobe Bridge Application was also really helpful with better organising my photos and eliminating the bad photos from the good. Their was useful options for viewing and organising too such as star ratings out of five.

I found it really helped me figure out where I was heading with my final folio as I wasn't sure if I wanted to do more abstract Light photos or repeated photos of the same place at various times but after going through all the photos I've already taken I think I'm definitely leaning towards the abstract.

Week 3: Colour Exercise

Red 1

Red 2

Orange...

Yellow 1

Yellow 2

Blue

Green 1

Green 2

Purple: I had trouble finding something purple so I took a photo of my scarf but it turned out a bit blurry...

Brown

Converted to black and White and colour boosted

Original Black Photo