First Shoot:
Second Shoot:
Evaluation:
My photos are of shirtcliff wood's and its nature, they range from photos of flowers, trees, plants and small streams that go through these woods, I think most of these that I took worked really well, especially the ones that I focused a certain photographic element on. I also think the colour and brightness levels in the photographs are quite decent too even though I did not have to change the ISO, shutter speed or aperture much for most of the photos.
On the other hand though I do have improvements for my photos, one being the focus, although quite a few were using focus for depth of field, a few of them I was not doing this with, were out of focus for example, a whole group of the photos that I had took continuously were all out of focus but would of have generally been a good photo if it was in focus. I would also improve for next time, my knowledge on the controls of the camera, as I would of liked to have changed the ISO, apertures and shutter speeds manually, but instead I basically used the automatic features most of the time, with some having a manual input like zoom and focusing. I would finally also like to improve the way the photos were composed as some of them I did from the wrong angle or just not the way I imagined it would of looked like, this is why I should have checked the photos on the camera straight after taking them.
The meanings I was going for in my photos were nature and tranquility, I feel that I obtained this meaning in most of my images, an example that I thought went well with the meaning of 'nature' was one which was a couple of trees with a setting sun shining between two trees, I think this shows the beauty of what someone could see and that if this was taken away, such as the trees been cut down, this would not be seen by anyone ever again, so I'm basically trying to show that people should be environmentally friendly and try to look after our planet. An example of a photograph showing the meaning of 'tranquility' is a photograph of a little water fall on the route of a small stream in the forest, I think this shows tranquility as the audience might imagine the setting as very quite and calm, as streams in the middle of the woods are quite secluded and so there wouldn't be much noise.
As I said, I could of improved the composition in the photographs but most I am actually quite happy with, one of which was a photo of a flower (I did quite a few of these) where it was centered in the middle, this is using the point of interest technique and I did this as it was a bright colour (Yellow) contrasting against a darker colour (Forest Green), which was also helped with the fact that it has a depth of field with the background being the darker colour and being out of focus, this made the flower stand out as a point of interest, I feel that this is an ideal way to compose an image. In my photo shoot I always used ambient light, this is because, like I said in my planning, I am only using this because I want my photos to be natural and raw and so the best way to do this was to not have any synthetic lighting, an example of me using the ambient lighting well was on the photo I took of a leaf on the ground that had rain drops on it, the ambient lighting created by the Sun was lighting up the rain drops so that they were more visible, I also incidentally had taken it at an angle where the rain drops refracted the light so I could see objects not underneath the droplet but next to it magnified, unfortunately the photo was out of focus. Unfortunately, one thing I did not do was change or modify the factors that go into exposure when doing the photo shoot, that is one thing I would definitely improve upon doing if I ever did this again, but there was a variety of exposure settings used in the photos which were all automatically controlled by the camera, here are a few examples;
First of all, the aperture is measured in f-stop (The size of the opening made by the aperture) and the examples above range from the low of 4.0 up to 11 f-stop. The one that has an f-stop of 4 has a wide opening, this is because there isn't much light in the photograph (due to the clouds) so it has to open wide to let in as much light as possible into the camera so it can show the details. The photo with a 5 f-stop is a bit more brighter and so has a higher f-stop, it also has a depth of field, to do this it would need to lower its f-stop for it to create this effect as it is trying to let in less light to be out of focus. The photo with a 5.6 f-stop is even more brighter than the previous due to the reflections of light in the stream and so has more of a closed opening to let in less light so the details are less bleached out. Finally, the highest f-stop out of the examples is 11, this is because the Sun light is literally going into the lens, and so to make so the details aren't bleached out fully the opening is as closed as possible as it can be. Next, is the shutter speed and the slower shutter speed in the examples is 1/40, this is also the least brightest example, this is because the camera had to have more time to let in the light so it could capture the detail in the photo.The example with a shutter speed of 1/250 was accidentally took on the sports mode, which is another reason to why I need to improve my knowledge of working the camera settings. The second quickest shutter speed is the example with 1/400 which is also the one with a depth of field, the reason it's quicker is because all it had to do was capture the light coming of the object in the foreground, whilst the background does not need this as it needs to be out of focus to create the effect of depth of field. Finally, the quickest shutter speed is from the example with 1/500, the reason this one is the fastest is because I used the sports mode, I used this because the stream was moving and because I wanted a clear photo without the stream coming out blurred I used it, and the sports mode is specifically coded for the shutter speed to be that fast for that specific reason, to capture something instantly. Finally, the ISO is the sensitivity of the lens to the light, the lower the ISO the lower the sensitivity to the light, this is usually when the image comes out more clearer, especially with close ups. The lowest ISO out of the examples were 100 and this was a close up of a twig, with a blurred background (depth of field) and because there wasn't much light the lens wasn't as sensitive.
As I said in my plan, I was going to use the macro setting, I used this mostly for getting a depth of field on an object, mostly being flowers or twigs, I may have also used this when taking photos that I wanted to present the technique of leading lines, I did this on a few branches that were reachable and placed the camera going so that it was showing the branch going outward, thus creating the leading line, I then used the macro with this so that the front of the branch was in detail, but as the branch goes more outwards there became less focus.On the other hand though I do have improvements for my photos, one being the focus, although quite a few were using focus for depth of field, a few of them I was not doing this with, were out of focus for example, a whole group of the photos that I had took continuously were all out of focus but would of have generally been a good photo if it was in focus. I would also improve for next time, my knowledge on the controls of the camera, as I would of liked to have changed the ISO, apertures and shutter speeds manually, but instead I basically used the automatic features most of the time, with some having a manual input like zoom and focusing. I would finally also like to improve the way the photos were composed as some of them I did from the wrong angle or just not the way I imagined it would of looked like, this is why I should have checked the photos on the camera straight after taking them.
The meanings I was going for in my photos were nature and tranquility, I feel that I obtained this meaning in most of my images, an example that I thought went well with the meaning of 'nature' was one which was a couple of trees with a setting sun shining between two trees, I think this shows the beauty of what someone could see and that if this was taken away, such as the trees been cut down, this would not be seen by anyone ever again, so I'm basically trying to show that people should be environmentally friendly and try to look after our planet. An example of a photograph showing the meaning of 'tranquility' is a photograph of a little water fall on the route of a small stream in the forest, I think this shows tranquility as the audience might imagine the setting as very quite and calm, as streams in the middle of the woods are quite secluded and so there wouldn't be much noise.
As I said, I could of improved the composition in the photographs but most I am actually quite happy with, one of which was a photo of a flower (I did quite a few of these) where it was centered in the middle, this is using the point of interest technique and I did this as it was a bright colour (Yellow) contrasting against a darker colour (Forest Green), which was also helped with the fact that it has a depth of field with the background being the darker colour and being out of focus, this made the flower stand out as a point of interest, I feel that this is an ideal way to compose an image. In my photo shoot I always used ambient light, this is because, like I said in my planning, I am only using this because I want my photos to be natural and raw and so the best way to do this was to not have any synthetic lighting, an example of me using the ambient lighting well was on the photo I took of a leaf on the ground that had rain drops on it, the ambient lighting created by the Sun was lighting up the rain drops so that they were more visible, I also incidentally had taken it at an angle where the rain drops refracted the light so I could see objects not underneath the droplet but next to it magnified, unfortunately the photo was out of focus. Unfortunately, one thing I did not do was change or modify the factors that go into exposure when doing the photo shoot, that is one thing I would definitely improve upon doing if I ever did this again, but there was a variety of exposure settings used in the photos which were all automatically controlled by the camera, here are a few examples;
The brief asked for something to do with identity, and I chose to represent the identity of Sheffield's woods and nature. My photo fits this brief because they were taken in Shirtcliff woods, one of Sheffield's many woods and then my photos also feature things to do with nature within the forest, this being the flowers, river streams and the sun setting, these are a few examples;
This is an example of flowers being apart of nature, this represents the nature of the woods during the Spring.
This is an example of the sun setting, this can create shadows and also a range of hues based around orange and yellow, it also refracted the light seen in the water droplets making them more visible.This shows you how the sun effects the look of nature in the woods
Then finally there is the stream, this shows the nature through reflections of the light on the stream.
Unfortunately, I did not take any inspiration from any photographers that we had researched i.e. Martin Parr, Duncan Philpott etc. and I think I would if I was to do this photo shoot again as it would help me come up with different ways to do my photos.
Finally, I used many photographic elements in my photos, the main few being;
Composition:
This is an example of composition because I have arranged the point of interest which is the yellow flower, contrasting against the darker green leafs, in the centre, this is commonly used in composition and I have done this as it's the first thing I want the viewer to se eand focus on.
Formatting (landscape and portrait):
This is an example of formatting as I have done this photo in landscape, unfortunately I did not take any photos in portrait, which I could have admittedly done with a tree for example. This photo links to another photographic element known as leading lines, this is shown by the dirt trial, although it isn't straight it or leads to a point of interest, it still resembles something you would see in leading lines.
Centre of interest:
This is an example of a photo showing a centre of interest. The feather is the centre of interest as the feather contrasts against the background of the floor, which is a lot darker and so the feather can be seen more clearer. It is also another example of the previously mentioned composition.
Viewpoints:
I used both viewpoint; Eye level view (Left) and Birds Eye view (Right). This was manly used just to get different perspectives, I took the eye level photo because the flower faced forward and so I wanted to get its 'face'. The birds eye view photo was took because I wanted to get a picture of something on the floor and trying to take that at eye level wouldn't have come out as good as it has in birds eye view.
Rule of thirds:
This is an example of the rule of thirds as there is at least one point of interest crossing one of the lines in the rule of thirds, this being any one of the flowers from the flowers in the photo.
Lighting:
This is an example of lighting, I'll admit I could have used the EV settings to adjust the lighting when taking a photo. On the other hand, I used lighting in this photo by letting the sun shine through the trees, the tree's trunks came out almost silhouette like. It also created a few shadows on the ground, that you can hardly see.
Close-up:
I did this a lot in my photo shoot as I used the macro setting, I did this because I wanted to get detail on the objects I was taking photos of in the forest. This being an example of such, it also used created the effect of a depth of field as the bud was in detail and in focus whilst the background was not.
Leading lines
Unfortunately, when taking the photos with leading lines in thought I did not think about having a point of interest at the end of them, this could have been useful to lead the viewers eyes to this point of interest. Above is a photo I thought had the element of leading lines within it.
Texture:
This is an example of the photographic element texture in my photo, because this is the woods there was many opportunities for different textures, I chose to contrast the smooth water against the rough rocks within a stream. The water made the rocks stand out as the water was also very reflective whilst the stone did not reflect much light. and so you could tell the more dull objects apart from the less dull object.
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