Thursday, 2 October 2014

Image Bank - Movement







These six images represent movement as you can see that the object in focus is moving and it captures the movement which would not normally be seen by the human eye. 

Straight Images - Tone





Wednesday, 1 October 2014

Work Diary - Reflection

In our reflection session, it was quite a dark gloomy day so there were the occasional puddle in which I could capture some reflection, there are also quite a few of mirrored surfaces around the college and Harlow Town Centre. Although there were a few reflective surfaces there were not many which actually made finding good reflective photographs quite hard. 



This image is showing the reflection of a sign post in the pond. It is not a clear reflection as the water is not clear but it still creates a reflection. I like this photograph because there is something simple about it but it still shows the reflection.












I like this photograph as it shows the sweet machine and the reflection of that and the others next to it in the window behind it. This also is not a very defined reflection but it still shows this formal element. 








If I was to redo the reflection session, I would try to do it on a sunnier day so that I have the light from the sun to help create more reflection images. I feel that this would really improve certain reflection photographs. 

Image Bank - Reflection






























I think that these 6 images show reflection well as they all capture different types of reflection in different surfaces i.e watered surfaces, mirrors, or mirrored surfaces. The majority of reflection images are ones in which the object has been reflected in water. 

Definition - Reflection

Dictionary Definition -  the image of something in a mirror or on any reflective surface

Words to describe reflection - illusions, mirrored, symmetrical 


This image shows the reflection of two people on a beach, from a pair of sunglasses taken at an angle. This images shows that there is much more to the scene that what is being captured.


This image of the Eiffel Tower shows reflection as it is mirrored into the water in front of the tower. It also shows more of the Eiffel Tower that the still object. I like this images because the brightness of the tower against its background is reflected also in the waters surface.

This image of a lakes landscape shows reflection as it captures the many bright colours of the sky and mirrors them perfectly in the waters surface.


This image captures reflection of the woman doing yoga on the waters edge. As well as it capturing the reflection of the woman it captures the reflection of the different colours in the sky. 










My Definition - Reflection is when something is mirrored in any reflective surface. 

Work Diary - Tone

For our tone session, we altered the settings on our camera so that all photographs we took were in black and white. This made the session fairly easy as tone is all around us so I captured quite a few photographs. I enjoyed this session as shooting in  black and white is different to our normal sessions so I found in more enjoyable. 




This is one of the photographs i took in the tone session, i think it shows tone as you can see the light tone to the branches/leaves on the plant, and the darkness of the trees behind it. 










I like this photograph because i like the way the light tone of the little flowers contrasts with the dark colour of the leaves behind it. The tone isn't that clear but it is definitely there.









Progression -If I could redo my tone session, I would focus on the tone of objects which move i.e humans or animals as I think it would be quite interesting to capture the tone of these things. This is a photograph that i found online taken by Robert Dawson and it captures three horses running, i like the way the horses hair colour differs and the way he has managed to capture tone in the way in which i would hopefully like to progress my work. 

Definition - Tone

Dictionary Definition - a form or degree of a colour

Words to describe tone - chromatic, bright, dark, contrast, grey scale


This image is showing the tone of the two hands, the females hand is lighter and the males darker. Also the background around these two arms is darker. 

There is tone shown in this photograph because you can see that there is some lightness in the lines which travel down the leaf and the darkness of the shadow under the light.

Although this image is not in black and white like most images which show tone, it still shows tone as both the colours in the leaves are of a bright nature and the surrounding water is dark.


This photograph shows tone as it shows the lightness of the mountains in the background and the darkness of the mountains in the foreground, from this photograph I can interpret that this is due to shadows which have been caused by natural lighting. 










My definition - Tone is the lightness or darkness of a colour