LOCATION LIGHTING - SNOW

These were taken in Germany before Christmas, when it was minus 20 degrees. The lake had frozen. This was at Magic Hour and I think the light is really special giving a soft glow to the pictures, and avoiding any over exposure issues which you can get with snow being so reflective.

I particularly like the tree the way it is all bent over and twisted, leading the eye to the sunset.

LOCATION LIGHTING - SNOW

This was taken in my village at 5am one morning after it had first snowed. I feel that it is really interesting as it shows all different types of lighting, tungsten, sodium, halogen, and reflected light from the white snow.

Two Weekly Picture Project

I took this picture in the studio, using a soft box diffuser overhead to cut down reflections on the shiny coins. I used a Nikon D700 SLR with a 50mm lens and flash. The aperture was f11, and the exposure was 1/125th of a second.

DIGITAL DARKROOM - COOL, GREY AND WARM BALANCED PHOTOS

After uploading your images into Lightroom, you go to the develop menu, where you can alter the tone of your image. If you slide the temperature bar all the way to the left, this makes the image COOL, whereas, if you slide it all the way to the right, this makes the image WARM. You can also see this on the Histogram. The Cool image makes it cold and full of blue tones, and lacking in reds and warm colour, whereas the opposite is true of the warm tones.

The greyscale is produced by clicking the greyscale tab which simply desaturates the image to black and white.

GROUP TASK 25th NOVEMBER 2009

Working in groups of three, we picked a film that we knew about. We looked on the internet and recalled the film clips, and picked one of the scenes, and then we went to reconstruct a scene from our chosen film Rear Window. The scene was where James Stewart was recuperating, bored at home.
The scene we chose is where James Stewart thought he saw a murder. So we tried to recreate the picture using a door frame, so that the light was behind the subject, and then using a reflector, tried to reflect the light back into the subjects face, to show terror. The footprints photograph was to show a mans bloody footprints, to get the mind guessing, but we didn't use them in the final image, but we used it in the layers in the final poster version we put together for our blog to get your imagination going!