fwhite-photography

Movie Poster, Research and final!

Daylight Portrait’s The daylight portrait’s we have to try and recreate each lighting technique, these include, Direct lighting, Flagged lighting, Reflected lighting and Window light. As show in the images above each different lighting technique gives off a very different yet effective feel, I am personally drawn towards flagged lighting images, however it can be difficult to achieve an effective look, however the image shown above as an example has used the use of the flag very effectively and there for adds to the atmosphere of the image.

This is relatiable to me as i work part time in a bar making cocktail's at functions.

My name is Fiona White, I come from a small town central scotland called wishaw, quite a small and deprived area, when i'm not at college thriving in a photography based environment, I am our working one of my 3 jobs, in my spare time I enjoy going out with my friends and socialising, I enjoy going on spontaneous trips out to get pictures on nice days. The thing that got me insterested in photography was initially my hair dresser, he had used the model Kate Moss to style her hair and at the bottom of the page on the magazine his name was on it, having this in the back of my mind I was very interested in being able to produce a similar image one day, we had went on a family holiday later that year to Egypt and I had just to a few snaps but when i started to look at them I was really enjoying it and decided to take it up and a hobby from there, however I am wanting to further this skill and hopefully make it my career. The above images were taken between 2011-2013 just on an ipod, however having said this, these are the images that made me realise i did enjoy taking pictures and using the likes of composition.

5 Inspirational Self Portraits. 1- By Annegien Schilling, I like this portrait as her deep hidden away feelings are drawn onto her body to get across the point of mental ill heath. 2- By Andrzej Dragan, I like this image as it is a controlled portrait however it is helping to convey his personality within this image. 3- By Spiegellicht, I really like how sharp this image is and all the tiny details are so sharp mixed with the harsh lighting. 4- By Unknown, I like this image as it tried so put across his personal hobbies and interests such as construction, however making the viewer aware that it's not straight forward and that there is an element of risk. 5- By Steve Pontibraind, i like this image as it has a very deep and mysterious mood to it, this has been put across very well by using effective lighting.

Portfolio.

For each of our portfolio prints, we downloaded an A3 canvas off my city, this was extremely helpful as it meant each our prints were all the same and on the same canvas. We simply changed the image to A4 size (21cm by 29.7cm) then free transformed to fit the the correct size on the A3 canvas and sent to print, ensuring that our resolution was 300ppi.

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Out of all the processes this one was the simplest and more effective with minimal work required to complete the effect. I started with the original image and got a daguerreotype style filter online and set it as a layer and brought my transparency down to 41%. I feel like this process has been very effective in creating the specific look I was aiming for.

I felt like I had wasted most of my time deciding on a layout and order of which to set my images out, I personally felt I had spend a decent amount of time during the editing process on each image however I most definable spend too much time on trying to organise my images.

Light room unlike bridge is NOT a file browser, however you are able to preview your images during the import stage before you actually import the images, during this stage you are able to easily apply your copyright to each of them images quickly and easily. In the Develop menu there is a tool bar along the top similar to camera raw in bridge. One draw back of using light room is that its only designed for some file types such as Jpeg, Tif, Raw, Png or Video files, You cannot access illustrator, Design or Photoshop files using light room. You can easily add geotags to images make a book, slideshow print or add to web page. Light room is defiantly similar to bridge however light room is the more efficient processor for a photographers purpose as it is much more convenient and time saving tan Adobe Bridge, Light room has a faster work flow but over all it more organised as you can add images to a collection and easily create copies of an image to edit it in many ways.

Final 9 portfolio prints edited and on an A3 canvas prepared and ready for printing, after this step i sent these images to loxleys colour for printing.

I liked using adobe camera raw because you can change most aspects about your image and you can see a before and after of what you've changed and who different the final image looks in comparison to the raw image.

I would highly recommend Loxleys as they were very helpful in advising the best way to get my prints quick. Their prices are rather reasonable also.