Photography Work (Photography)

This is going to be a rather large post with a lot of images included.  It's basically a log of some of the images I've taken for my main coursework for photography.  I won't annotate every image, but most batches should have some comments.

I decided I wanted to work with small subjects.  I'd never photographed small items before, and I really wanted to steer clear of doing landscape photography.  I talked my thoughts over with a few of my colleagues, and after that discussion, I decided I was going to use Lego characters as the subject for my work.  

Before I decided on this idea though, I did some tests with some small figures I purchased at the college shop, mostly used for architectural models.  All of the ones below were taken on a Canon bridge camera, though I have double this amount on my phone.







After taking some test images, I tried to find some Lego for further tests.  Weirdly, I have one on the dashboard of my car, and used the figure for some more testing just around the classroom.  At this point I was still unsure what I wanted to do exactly with the figures.













I really liked how these came out, but I still wasn't sure how I wanted to work with them.  I wasn't sure if I wanted to have them interacting with real world objects, like the tests with the Sharpie, or if I wanted them in their own 'environment' as it were.  I acquired some more 'subjects' and created a small studio of sorts.















I tried using different background colours and lighting, but oddly the natural lighting was the warmest and gave the images a more comfortable look.  The colours I had picked for the background seemed too pastel for what I was aiming for.






















My intention was to create some easily recgonisable characters but based on my previous experiment, the lighting seemed too warm.  I feel a lot of these were ruined by the lighting.














I liked the idea behind these, the humour of them, but the execution wasn't great.  The figures I had actually had flesh coloured heads, but that didn't add to the humour, so I swapped them out for the more traditional head.  I'm not happy with the composition, and I'm very aware of the inconsistency with the Han Solo, as his chest is flesh, but head is yellow.








I gave the Star Wars attempt another go, this time based on one of the iconic scenes from the original film, but it just didn't look as grand as I'd hoped.  








I really wanted to get this one right, but I'm not sure that I did.  However in doing this, I realized that I think I prefer the images that are done in the real world, and out of the studio.
















Again, I seemed to be having getting the lighting right, it often coming out too warm.  I really like this idea, and really wanted to get this right in my head.




















I just thought this was a really fun idea, but trying to get the right atmosphere was hard.  Something about the rigid outline just made me laugh.  It tied in well with the theme I had in mind.  I tried using tomato sauce for blood, but it really did not look right.  In the end, I scrapped it before I even pulled out the camera... It was disgusting.











After my tests, I decided to do some more images outside of the studio I had created.  I felt the blurred background added to the images.  

These are just some of the images I took, I took a lot more on my phone, but the focus was really terrible and I tried to recreate the ones I really liked with the bridge camera.  Next I'll be selecting some final images and editing them.



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