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Unseen Research exercise - Ellie Glendinning

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For this image, I found it hard to capture the splashing off water, this was because I had to time myself dropping the water and taking the picture. I practiced doing it multiple times with plain water - no colouring - before I was given the suggestion of using milk. I personally did not like the milk and found it less interesting in terms of splashes. However, with the milk now mixed in the tray that I was dropping the water into, it allowed the clear water to show up better on camera. I found this to be more interesting to me personally, and very simplistic.

Compositionally, I found it hard to position the camera in a way that would capture the drop in an interesting position. This was because I wouldn't really know where the splash would be until it happened. In this case, I had managed to capture the splash and leave enough room for the rippling of the water.

In editing, I adjusted the colours and cropping. I didn't feel as though I needed to overly edit this image because I liked it as it was.

I would say this image is successful because it captures the splash of water. The splash is also in focus and I am happy with how it looks compositionally.

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For this photo, I had a lot of fun figuring out what kinds of plastic worked best with the filters. I found this plastic and wasn't really sure what to do with it at first, but I eventually got the idea of trying to twist it into the shape of a flower. I used a clasp I found to hold it together and moved it into the position I wanted.

Compositionally, I liked having space around the plastic and the contrast of all the colours on a black background. I took a whole variety of images, swapping between vertical and horizontal positioning of the camera. I also moved the plastic into the middle of the frame, but I ultimately decided on keeping it on the right with open space on the left.

Personally, I feel as though this image works well because it gives off this idea that plastic is beautiful in its own way. I like the open space because it gives the plastic flower more room and doesn't feel claustrophobic. In terms of editing, not much was done other than adjusting the colours, shadows and cropping of the image.

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For this image I struggled to find the right place to focus since the depth of field was very shallow. It was challenging to try and make the image look interesting when only a portion of it was in focus.

For my composition, I used what appears to be a dried out mini pumpkin and a leaf. I liked having something that would make the pumpkin stand out, but also add some texture and interest to the image.

I moved the lighting around a lot to get some nice highlights and shadows. I feel like I did a good job with it because the shadow allows the pumpkin to really pop out. Plus, the lighting on the pumpkin helps to highlight the part I was trying to focus on.

On the post production side of things, I didn't do much because I didn't feel like I had to. I adjusted the colours to help make the pumpkin stand out slightly more and made the shadows a little darker.

Overall, I think I have done well despite the challenges I have faced.

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Unseen Optimisation  Evaluation 2022-23 Gavin Lawes 30453020

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I am really proud of this image and feel I have properly grasped what this project was about over the course of making the five images, I feel these two subjects have worked best as a pair though. I did have to make a very careful selection and invert it to remove the strap from my watch and then also use a different blending mode to get the medal to show through with the watch facia in as well which was tricky and took a few attempts and restarts to get it right. I found I had to paint out a lot more than excepted and and had to re paint in parts on my layer masks of the watch's chronograph ring and again found selecting and then inverting my selection really helpful for controlling the area I wanted to remove without affecting the part I wanted to keep.

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Gavin Lawes, Illusion, Medal. f/11, ISO 125, Shutter Speed 1/125th of a sec.

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Illusion Medal & Watch - Original Image Medal

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Illusion Medal & Watch - Original Image Medal

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This is the cleaned up image of the medal I plan to combine with the watch face and have the hanger still visible.

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Gavin Lawes, Illusion, Watch. f/18, ISO 125, Shutter Speed 1/125th of a sec.

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Illusion Medal & Watch - Original Image Watch

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Illusion Medal & Watch - Original Image Watch

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This is the cleaned up original image of the watch I want to combine with the medal so it hangs from the clip and also has the medal as a part of the face inside the chronograph ring.

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This I feel is much more of an illusion image as I have manged to use masks and delicate selections to make sure that it looks like the bulb is growing out of the cactus and even manged to keep a little shadow in from the bulb.

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Gavin Lawes, Illusion, Bulb. f/22, ISO 125, Shutter Speed 1/125th of a sec.

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Illusion Cactus & Bulb - Original Image Bulb

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Illusion Cactus & Bulb - Original Image Bulb

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The cleaned up image of the bulb with which I shall combine into the cactus and pot.

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Gavin Lawes, Illusion, Cactus. f/22, ISO 125, Shutter Speed 1/125th of a sec.

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Illusion Cactus & Bulb - Original Image Cactus

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Illusion Cactus & Bulb - Original Image Cactus

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The cleaned up image of the cactus and its pot which I shall combine to have a lightbulb as its flower.

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This is the combination of both brush and razor. I had to flip the razor over and remove extra pixels using paint brush on my selection of the brush but then removed enough so it fitted neatly on top. I feel this is very basic and will make my next two final images a little better.

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Gavin Lawes, Illusion, Razor. f/22, ISO 125, Shutter Speed 1/125th of a sec.

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Illusion Brush & Razor - Original Image Razor

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Illusion Brush & Razor - Original Image Razor

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This is the cleaned up image of the razor I am going to cap with the brush head in post.

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Gavin Lawes, Illusion, Brush. f/22, ISO 125, Shutter Speed 1/125th of a sec.

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Illusion Brush & Razor - Original Image Brush

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Illusion Brush & Razor - Original Image Brush

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The cleaned up original image of the brush I am going to combine with my razor in post.

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Gavin Lawes, Illusion, Screwdriver & Corkscrew.

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Illusion Corkscrew & Screwdriver - Final Image

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Illusion Corkscrew & Screwdriver - Final Image

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This is the combination of Screwdriver and Corkscrew, I didn't find this too tricky as once I had masked off the layers and removed the black plastic part of the screwdriver it was relatively simple to merge the two images as both are made of metal. I feel I could do better with this by maybe picking a different object such as a fork next time to combine with this corkscrew.

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Gavin Lawes, Illusion, Screwdriver. f/22, ISO 125, Shutter Speed 1/125th of a sec.

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Illusion Corkscrew & Screwdriver - Original Image Screwdriver 

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Illusion Corkscrew & Screwdriver - Original Image Screwdriver 

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Here is the cleaned up image of the screwdriver I will combine with the corkscrew.

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Gavin Lawes, Illusion, Corkscrew. f/22, ISO 125, Shutter Speed 1/125th of a sec.

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Illusion Corkscrew & Screwdriver - Original Image Corkscrew

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Illusion Corkscrew & Screwdriver - Original Image Corkscrew

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Here is my cleaned up image of the corkscrew I plan to combine with the screwdriver in post.

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This is the combined final image of both the orange and the lens. I tried to make it look as if the orange was jammed in the end of the lens. This required some decisive use of selections and then brushing away a lot from the orange as it was sitting inside the light modifier but none the less I feel I have managed to get an ok looking final image.

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Gavin Lawes, Illusion, Lens. f/11, ISO 125, Shutter Speed 1/125th of a sec.

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Illusion Orange & Lens Original Image - Lens

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Illusion Orange & Lens Original Image - Lens

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This is the cleaned up original image of my lens which I intend to combine with the orange below using masks in post.

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Gavin Lawes, Illusion, Orange. f/11, ISO 125, Shutter Speed 1/125th of a sec.

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Illusion Orange & Lens Original Image - Orange

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Illusion Orange & Lens Original Image - Orange

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This is the cleaned up original shot of the orange which I shall combine with my Lens. The tutor Mark suggested placing the orange on a light modifier to hold it up and I shall mask this out in my edit during post.

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Illusion Contact Sheet Screwdriver & Corkscrew 

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Illusion Contact Sheet Screwdriver & Corkscrew 

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Gavin Lawes, Unseen, Macro. f/8, ISO 800, Shutter Speed 1/40th of a sec.

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I really like how this image has turned out to be honest and it is my first attempt at macro photography which is something I had a curiosity in before doing this project. I had tried with a single piece of fruit then began trying different setups of of small textured objects, much as I tried I found it was impossible to keep all of the objects in focus so instead decided to focus on the interior of the lime as I liked the texture in comparison to the velvet like texture of the petal above also in focus and totally different from the Mushroom in the background just in bokeh.

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Gavin Lawes, Unseen, High Speed Flash. f/11, ISO 250, Shutter Speed 1/80th of a sec.

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This is my final image from using High Speed Flash and dropping fruit into a tank of water while taking multiple rapid fire exposures trying to catch the moment that the fruit made a twist through the water on impact. I feel this is a really impressive display of what can be captured using high speed flash.

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Gavin Lawes, Unseen, Cross Polarisation. f/22, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 1/160th of a sec.

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This is my final image for using a cross polarising filter on a plastic teardrop bauble which was part of the unseen project.

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Unseen Contact Sheet - Cross Polarisation 

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Unseen Contact Sheet - Cross Polarisation 

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Gavin Lawes, Recycle Setup 1, Composite Image. f/13, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 5 sec.

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This is a composite image made from many shots taken of my first setup with different sections painted with torch light and then filled in through layer masks in post to make an evenly lit version of this setup. I feel this has lost a little sharpness and was a bit tricky to do but overall I feel this image is ok though I would prefer to try this technique more in my own time.

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Gavin Lawes, Recycle Setup 4, Single Exposure. f/10, ISO 125, Shutter Speed 5 sec.

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This was my last setup for this project and I really tried to paint only the main text on the passport and the medal just illuminating the glass and papers in background and making the aperture a little shallower in depth of field so as to help give attention to the medal and passport. I feel this has achieved a nice feel of a soldiers hiding hole behind sandbags found by torch at night.

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Gavin Lawes, Recycle Setup 3, Single Exposure. f/14, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 5 sec.

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This has appeared a little dark on padlet but this is a single exposure of my third setup for Recycle.

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Recycle Project Setup 3 (single exposures)Final

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Gavin Lawes, Recycle Setup 2, Single Exposure. f/14, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 5 sec. 

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This is a single exposure of my second setup, I was starting to realise what the painting with light part of this task meant.

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Recycle Project Setup 2 (Single Exposures) Final

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Gavin Lawes, Recycle Setup 1, Single Exposure. f/13, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 10 sec. 

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This is a single exposure of my first setup for Recyle

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Recycle Project Setup 1 (Single Exposures)Final

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This is my second shot for the illusion task. for this specific composite I took individual shots of a box of matches and an open tin of sardines in the exact same lighting and angle. I then proceeded to take both shots into photoshop and edit the tin of sardines over the match tray to make this interesting image. i also took a shot of the background by itself and increased the saturation to create that interesting pink gradient.

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this is the first of my illusion shots where I took shots of a Gillette electric razor and a small hammer where I then replaced the handle of the hammer with the razor to create a gillette branded hammer

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illusion's camera train and apple

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This is a contact sheet from one of my recycle shoots. Once I had set up my camera and the composition of the type writer was in a position which I was happy with. I experimented with the lighting as I wanted to make sure the black box was lit so that you have see that it was hollow and I also wanted to light the type writer the most as this is my main subject.

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recycle - contact sheet - fire and books 

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recycle - contact sheet - fire and books 

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this is the contact sheet for my recycle shoot. for this shoot i experimented with lighting a lot as for the fire pump i wanted different aspects to be lit separately and it also took me a few shots to get the best lighting on some of my subjects

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attached is the contact sheet from my recycle shoot. for this shoot i wanted to experiment with the lighting and have a few shots of different lighting for each object so that in post i had a couple of options to pick from

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illusion : dog leash x measuring tape contact sheet

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illusion : dog leash x measuring tape contact sheet

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attached is my contact sheet from my shoot with the dog leash and measuring tape. I played and with the composition of the tape so in post I can choose which composition would work the best with the leash

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illusion's pineapple skull image

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illusion's camera coffee image

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painting with light image 5

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Unseen Optimisation  Evaluation 2022-23 (1)

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attached is the contact sheet for my recycle shoot. after setting up the camera and composition i experiment with the lighting from my torch. i wanted to make sure that the comics at the front were the most lit so they would stand out against the rest of the comics

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attached is my contact sheet from a recycle shoot. in this shoot i experimented with lighting and composition of the bullet shells until i was happy with their placement

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 illusion : dummy x cactus contact sheet

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 illusion : dummy x cactus contact sheet

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attached is my contact sheet with experimentation for an illusion final with the concept of a cactus being photoshopped onto the rubber part of a babies dummy

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info red camera convert to black and white 

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info red camera convert to black and white 

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info red camera i made a lot of research how to edit the image all of the colour red and orange was taken out of the image and this left the image with a black and white the moody affect of the image is great and i really enjoyed shooting with a new type of camera i have never used before and i would like to try with different colour in the future with this image. i also chosen the location due to the dramatic clouds and feel the image would have this was only five minutes away from the college and one of my first times shooting this location

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droplet i really like the colour in the image and the almost dream like affect. the explosion of colour really drew me to the image. this seem almost like a fine art image and this is the style i have chosen to edit the image in

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droplets f22 iso 100 1/125 shutter speed

i chosen this image due to the colour and the ripple affects from the splash and the capture of the droplet just reflecting off the water