As a set: Black & White

To present my photographs as a set, i chose 5 images that i thought went well together. I chose to turn them black and white and increased the contrast of them for a more professional and traditional feel to them.

Photoshop

I manipulated the colours of some of my images on photoshop in order to experiment and enhance my images. Having had used photoshop before, I am fairly familiar with the basic and some complex uses of the program, but i am far from experienced. These are some of the subtle changes that i made some some of my images.

I edited the colours of this image by using the selective colour tool to enhance and degrade different colours. I increased the black in order to blend all the blacks together. like the colourful clothes in the background and the way they contrast against the subject in the foreground as he is only wearing black and white. I enhanced some of these colours so they would stand out more.

This image has a comedy feel to it so i wanted to maintain that feel. I increased the contrast and decreased the brightness to make the colours stand out and contrast more against eachother.

I thought this image was quite quirky. I desaturated the image for a more traditional feel.

To further enhance the traditional feel that the hat brings to the image, I desaturated the image, and i also increased the contrast and brightness.

With this image I desaturated it, then clicked on Variations and added red and yellow tones to the desaturated image. This formed a sepia tone.

I chose the 'equaliser' setting on photoshop for the manipulation of this image.

ELLE: Peter Doherty photoshoot by Rankin

This is one of my favourite photoshoots of Pete Doherty. It was for ELLE October 2009, and shot by one of my favourite photographers; Rankin. I think Rankin captures Pete's personality and presence very well in his photographs; from the props that are used to the angles and composition. The props all represent classic Pete, from the hat, the suit, the cat and the guitar. The images are black and white, they hold a traditional feel to them. This compliments Pete's smart presence and his suit, which add a very traditional feel to the images.

"Pete's like a cat. I'm kinda moving around trying to capture him." -Rankin

Portraits: Andrew

These are some of the portrait photographs i took from my set of 20. I wanted to capture a set of relaxed images, where the subject looked comfortable and to show their personality through the images. It is often quite hard to get someone to act comfortable in front of the camera, but i thought i captured my subjects personality through my shoot. The subject in this set of images happened to be my boyfriend, so he found it easier to act himself in front of the camera as i was the photographer and the connection shows throughout my images.

I directed Andrew as my model through an informal approach, generally chatting to him throughout the whole photoshoot instead of telling him to pose in certain positions. This way, he loosened up and acted more comfortable in front on the lens as the photoshoot went on. By talking to him throughout the shoot, he was able to reflect his personality into my photographs as he felt comfortable and himself.

F-stop: f/3.8 Max Aperture: f/3.6 ISO: 400 Focal length: 20mm

F-stop: f/4.2 Max Aperture: f/4.1 ISO: 400 Focal length: 30mm

F-stop: f/4.8 Max Aperture: f/4.6 ISO: 400 Focal length: 35mm

F-stop: f/4.8 Max Aperture: f/4.6 ISO: 400 Focal length: 35mm

F-stop: f/4.5 Max Aperture: f/4.3 ISO: 400 Focal length: 31mm

F-stop: f/4.8 Max Aperture: f/4.8 ISO: 400 Focal length: 38mm

F-stop: f/4.8 Max Aperture: f/4.6 ISO: 400 Focal length: 35mm

F-stop: f/4.2 Max Aperture: f/4.0 ISO: 400 Focal length: 26mm

F-stop: f/4.2 Max Aperture: f/4.0 ISO: 400 Focal length: 26mm

F-stop: f/4.8 Max Aperture: f/4.8 ISO: 400 Focal length: 38mm

F-stop: f/4.5 Max Aperture: f/4.4 ISO: 400 Focal length: 32mm

F-stop: f/4.2 Max Aperture: f/4.1 ISO: 400 Focal length: 30mm

F-stop: f/4.2 Max Aperture: f/1.0 ISO: 400 Focal length: 28mm

Photography

Project Three:

Capture 20 portrait photographs

For project three, i had to capture 20 portrait photographs using different settings on my camera.

I was quite excited about this brief as I love photography, and have a bit of experience in it after studying photography at alevel. So, after not having touched my Nikon D40 SLR camera for over 6 months, I was excited to get it out of the case and start snapping away once again.

Final copy of my creative brief (part b)

Project 2b:

Using the information given from the Ted Baker document, i filled in my brief accordingly. I changed in some of my box headings in order to suit this information and ajusted the frame size. I also uploaded a Ted Baker logo to make the brief more personal to the company.

Final copy of my creative brief (part a)

Project 2a:

This is my final design for my creative brief. I like the simplicity of the design. "Simplicity is they key in creating a creative brief". Thus, i made my brief simple yet stylish.