Last week of Traditional....

Although our class were not expecting to carry on for another two weeks of traditional photography it was very much an advantage for me. These last two weeks enabled me to make large prints of my four chosen traditional finals.

The following are the photos I am going to chose for my traditional finals:

What I have done so far....

So far during this half-term I have taking 7 traditional shoots and have printed my favourite images.

Experimental photography

Over the summer holidays I experimented with flower photography shooting from different angles to create a different and more interesting view to the photographs. In our traditional lessons during the week I made both positive and negative photographs of the following photo. I believe that this photo is particularly good as a I love the composition, the angle of which the photo was taken and the small depth of field that I had used. I also got to experiment with dodging and burning in the sky. In addition, with this photo we also had to print a low contrast (the original photo) and a high contrast (we had to add 170 magenta), this gave the photo more distinctive tones which I believe looked great in this photo.

My Last Shoot

Last weekend I completed a traditional shoot, I chose the location of the shoot to be close to the river to create a tranquil setting for my photos.

Plan for this weekend

For this weekend shoot I will be carrying on with nature photography. My ideas for photography will be surrounding the influence of photographer Philip Tonkyn. Although I won't be going to Glastonbury I will take photos in Duxford.  I will take a variety of photos and will try and use compositional techniques  such as frame within a frame, different depth of fields etc. I am going to concentrate on more close-ups.

At the end of August I went to Burnham Overy and took landscape photographs. The sky was really dramatic which created a great effect within my photographs. Also the reflection of the sun added to this drama.

Since being back at college I have been experimenting with landscape photography and taking influences from photographer Philip Tonkyn. At the moment in class we are concentrating on traditional photography, although I am still taking digital.