BCA LEVEL 3
In terms of the art I do, I am currently training to be an illustrator/painter. I've always loved storytelling through art and I'm hoping to tell some stories of my own someday.
When I'm not at college, I'm drawing, watching films, playing games, working at Bray Lake Watersports Cafe or spending time with my dog. In five years, I'd like to be either doing a degree in an artistic field, or working in an animation/games studio. |
Time has been interpreted by many artists in many ways. I wanted to express what is important to me about time and the way we use it. My family is often busy. I wanted to capture the things my family do alone and when spending time with each other. I liked the idea of giving time to another person (or dog), so I aimed to conduct my shoots while I was spending time with the people I love most. Setting them all around the lake I live by allowed the different ways I spend time with them to shine through.
To edit my images, I cropped them to improve upon the frame from the original image. I also used levels to hue-shift my images and change light levels to match other images in the shoot, or to make a certain mood. I removed marks and fingerprints from my images (particularly the object scans) by using the spot healing tool on Photoshop, which looks at the parts of the image around the selected area and fixes it.
This website could be a place where we can showcase our different styles of work. We can also display our own to prospective employers or clients. Students of the future at BCA can get a better sense of what they need to do for their project and gather ideas for their own photo shoots.
Most of the manipulation of my images has been to do with colour, since this is often what stands out most to me in an image. I have increased or decreased saturation to create contrast and to draw the eye to certain parts of the image. Changing colours to better fit a colour scheme made my images more aesthetically pleasing.
I have used long exposures in my night-time shots, such as for the landscape shots, which needed as much light as possible. It was difficult to keep the camera steady, so I rested it on the side of a bridge. I also used various Photoshop techniques to improve the compositions and colours in my image, such as the lasso tool, brush tools, and effects layers. I also used clipping masks to change specific parts of an image.
As I was using family as models in the shoot, there were no release forms needed as they had already consented to the use of the images.
The lake, while being a nice backdrop for my shoots, was not the safest of places I could have chosen. While most of the photos were taken on the path, far away from falling in, there were trip hazards from tree roots and, occasionally, patches of mud which would have sent us sliding right into the water. Loss of equipment in the water or in the dark was a possibility, so precautions had to be taken, such as pocketing smaller items like lens caps and SD card cases and keeping the camera strap around my neck at all times.
I enjoyed spending time with my family in the outdoors. With all of our busy lives, it is sometimes difficult to make the time to go somewhere together, and I am glad this project gave us the chance to do so. It was interesting being behind the camera, meeting them as an artist rather than just their daughter and directing them as I wanted them to appear in the shots.
To edit my images, I cropped them to improve upon the frame from the original image. I also used levels to hue-shift my images and change light levels to match other images in the shoot, or to make a certain mood. I removed marks and fingerprints from my images (particularly the object scans) by using the spot healing tool on Photoshop, which looks at the parts of the image around the selected area and fixes it.
This website could be a place where we can showcase our different styles of work. We can also display our own to prospective employers or clients. Students of the future at BCA can get a better sense of what they need to do for their project and gather ideas for their own photo shoots.
Most of the manipulation of my images has been to do with colour, since this is often what stands out most to me in an image. I have increased or decreased saturation to create contrast and to draw the eye to certain parts of the image. Changing colours to better fit a colour scheme made my images more aesthetically pleasing.
I have used long exposures in my night-time shots, such as for the landscape shots, which needed as much light as possible. It was difficult to keep the camera steady, so I rested it on the side of a bridge. I also used various Photoshop techniques to improve the compositions and colours in my image, such as the lasso tool, brush tools, and effects layers. I also used clipping masks to change specific parts of an image.
As I was using family as models in the shoot, there were no release forms needed as they had already consented to the use of the images.
The lake, while being a nice backdrop for my shoots, was not the safest of places I could have chosen. While most of the photos were taken on the path, far away from falling in, there were trip hazards from tree roots and, occasionally, patches of mud which would have sent us sliding right into the water. Loss of equipment in the water or in the dark was a possibility, so precautions had to be taken, such as pocketing smaller items like lens caps and SD card cases and keeping the camera strap around my neck at all times.
I enjoyed spending time with my family in the outdoors. With all of our busy lives, it is sometimes difficult to make the time to go somewhere together, and I am glad this project gave us the chance to do so. It was interesting being behind the camera, meeting them as an artist rather than just their daughter and directing them as I wanted them to appear in the shots.