Lighting, Composition, Texture (individual)

For this project I have to use a digital camera to produce images for each of the following subjects...

Outdoor Observational (reference)

1.Six faces in the environment.

2. Six textures that can be used in other media

3.Six continuous letters of the alphabet

4. Six architectural details that tell a story.

Studio (lighting)

1.a charater portrait in a low key lighting

2. a character portrait in high key lighting

3. a charcter posing in contre jour

I haven't done the studio part yet but have completed the Outdoor Observational. Here they are..

Six Faces in the Environment

This one is from a rusty pole. The big blob is the mouth and there are 2 little dots above and somewhere in between is a tiny nose.

This one was decoration on a fance lamp post. Thise one is very easy to make out with the 2 eyes being the large squarish forms, the nose coming down from between them and them the mouth directly underneath.

This face was on a tree, it looks like its yelling! The open mouth is at the bottom, the line up from it is it's nose and then there are 2 drooping eyes above that.

This one reminds me of a dog because of the nose. The sad, shut mouth is at the bottom, the nose isn't too far up from that and then if you go quite far up you can see two eyes.

I saw this one on a bench, its of bits that have fallen from a tree. This face is a very sad face!

I think this is the most exciting one and is by far my favourite! It looks like an evil monster!

Overall I was very pleased with the faces I found.

Textures that can be Used in Other Media

This one is of leather on a leather chair I found

This on is of the bottom of an old saucepan

This texture is from a concrete wall that had been rendered roughly

This is bark from a tree

This one is more obvious than others..it is grass with some moss.

And finally, this one is a path.

I was very happy with my textures although if I did it again I would try and find more of a range of colours as I have a lot of greys and green.

Six Continuous Letters In the Environment

I love the colours in this photo. I started off at the beginning of the alphabet with an A. I found this on part of a decorative metal thing hanging on a wall in town. 

This is my B, It is the Christmas lights in town, I love it as I find it quite quirky.

This is my C, this was a decoration pattern on a street light. I love its boldness and the tones that defines its form.

This is my D, this is my least favourite as I find it a lot more boring than the others.. there's not a lot to it and there's too much going on it the background.

This is my E, I found this on the corner of a building. Again like the C I love the boldness of it.

And finally this is my F, I love the bluey grey against the redness of the brick. 

Overall I am happy with my letters as I feel they are easy to read and understand. The letters are shown clearly.

Six Architectural Details With A Story

Is is my first one, as you can see this building was originally built to be a bank and was established in 1833 and still to this day is a bank.The photo wasn't great but was hard to play with because of a limited amount of angles being on the ground that that high up. 

I love this one, I love the contrasting colours of the red and green. I also love it because of the simple shapes and forms.

This is of the sides of a bridge going over a railway track. I loved the roughness of it and the contrast of the red rust against the green running along the bottom.

This is the weakest of them all. The quality isn't very good..mainly because I had to zoom in so much and because I get a good angle..purely for the same reason of my first (I was down below it and it was very high up). However I liked the story..i like how the building had plants growing out of it.

I would have liked to have got closer to this one but was unable to because I was so far away again. There for the quality also isn't great.

I love the simpleness of the colour palette in this one. This is part of a church gate and I like how it subtle that its old but still obvious.

Overall I am happy with the majority but not all of them, I would redo some if the chance was given.

Low Key Lighting

This is my low lighting photo, I am quite pleased with it although I would have liked to be able to see both of her eyes clearly.

High Key Lighting

I'm not too happy with this one..its really blurry and has a few shadows behind him.

Contre Jour

I'm not too happy with this. The edges are all funny and isn't a clear simple silhouette. 

Overall I'm not happy with any of the studio photo's, I didn't get on with this at all but love to try it again to try and get it right. Half of it was because I didn't understand the camera I was using. 

 

Mood Boards

For my project during Study week I had a project where I had to watch 2 films and then create a mood board on them (all the colours used in that film). This one was my most favourite of the projects so far and was very excited about it (so much so I completed it within 1 day of getting it). The films I chose were 'Alien' and 'Ice Age'. I chose these not only because I could easily get hold of them but I also enjoy watching them. I used magazines to get my colours..this was a challenge finding the right shades but fun non the less! These are my mood boards..

This one was 'Alien', although the cover for the DVD was mainly Green and Black the actual film was Black and Dark Blues. It had a little bit of Green and some Bright white. Other than that the rest was dark greys.

This one was 'Ice Ages', this film was mainly whites and light icy blues. It had the ocasional purples and tans but other than that there were the lovely shades of brown from the animals. I found it quite interesting actaully because the background was mainly blues but it was contrasted by the animals as their fur was either a reddy brown or a yellowy brown. You can tell that it is a film aimed at children as the 3 main primary colours are used!

I was very happy with the outcome of my moodboards, I feel they work really well and are true to the films.

Observational Drawings for Design: Final Drawings

These are my final drawings for this project (My second). They are displayed in order or the storyboard...

This was my first shot (Establishing Shot) of the 50p.

This is a Long Shot of a corridor and you can see that there is a small object on right hand side near the door on the floor, this is the 50p.

This is a mid long shot of a woman coming through the dor and sees the 50p on the floor.

Next is a close up of a hand (presumably the womans) picking up the coin.

Then you see the woman in a shopping centre (I made it easy to know this as I made her top orange, this is the one bit of colour I used in the storyboard). This is a long shot.

Next is a mid shot of the lady at the till with a close up of the back of the womans head.

A close up of the coin being exchanged.

Another mid shot showing the lady's facial expression.

And finally back to a close up of the coin having reached another destination.

Was was really happy with most of the drawings, some I feel I could have done better and observed alot more. The story was pretty boring and I could have made it alot more exciting, however this allowed me to play with the drawings. And there were a coupld of shot types that weren't right, for example instead of doing a close up as I should have for the facial expression I did a mid shot. Overall I was happy with it.