Emulation Plan

HDR

   By taking three photographs below, I was able to combine them and create a HDR photograph that showed detail in both the foreground, background, land, sea, and sky.  This technique is a unique one, and as the saying goes, you either love it or you hate it;  This is because it gives your photographs a very potent look when finished.  This look is either very effective, or a complete fail, there is no room in the middle for compromise.

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To achieve this look:

Personally, I think that the original photograph I took looked better quality of image, as it wasn't as raw and as harsh to look at.  Even so, the effect is clearly displayed and has a punchy feeling to it.

  This was some work in progress.  as you can see, when you use the sliders to adjust you photographs look, the image changes, and it's about getting the correct balance between the lighting and the detail.  As seen below, I had put the slider towards the darker side of things, giving the photograph you can see.  I then adjusted this to give the effect the image has above.

Focus Points

  With the use of the focus points on my camera, I was able to select the area within the view finder that I wanted to keep on focus, and the rest to be blurred. The use of this mode is very effective as it gives you free reign over your macro and tilt shift shots.

  Some examples of these points of focus in actions are below.  From here we see that the focus points are towards the bottom of the photograph.  As you look further down the post, you see that I changed the focus points to higher positions within the view finder.  This shifted the focus to other parts of the photograph.

  This photograph below shows the photograph when I left the focus points untouched;  You can see that the photograph is more in focus on the whole that the others.  This is because the focus was spread out around 15 different points of focus.

  The Focus point in this photograph is blatantly obvious, and it just shows how much using these focus points can help you take stunning macro shots.

  With this one I switched the focus points to the left hand side instead to get a different perspective on the scenery.

  Going back to the same idea with having everything in focus, I left the focus points untouched, and by doing so, I was able to capture this photograph which is all in focus;  Not just a small sections of it.

Mock Exam - 19th.20th/April/2016

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To get these photographs:

  First Attempt.  This went well as I was able to see straight away what I needed to improve and fix;  This being the reflection within the lens of the glasses.  This one you see straight below is the one I cut the lens completely out of it, then placed the sunset within the rims of the glasses.  I soon found out that this wasn't the best idea, as it looks rigid and false.

  Second Attempt.  As you can see here, the problem with the lens has been fixed, and now looks a lot more authentic, as you can see the reflection of the sunset on the lens instead of inside the rim.  I also toned down the saturation in this picture, as that gives it that 'real' look, and it doesn't stick out like a sore thumb.

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To get these photographs:

  First attempt.  When I first tried the idea of placing a sunset and the sea as a replacement for my friends eyes, I thought it looked quite effective, especially when you compare the contrasting colours between the two eyes and also taking into account the monochromatic face.  I used the idea of blue + red = purple, but that didn't go as planned so it turned out that the lips stayed a bright red, accompanying the right eye.

  Second attempt.  Once I had edited this version, I immediately loved this version better than the other, mostly because of the effect the eyes have;  They look like they are serving a purpose being in the photograph, whereas the first attempt looked like there was a larger gap than planned where the eyes used to be.

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To get this photograph:

First and only attempt.  I had previously drawn out a design for this photograph, and I knew exactly what I wanted to see, and where I wanted to see it.  I think this idea of fire and water being together, fighting against each other, is really effective, as the colours both contrast and compliment eachother other simply because the two colours are so different and also both primary colours.

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To get this photograph:

  First and only attempt.  This was just an idea I had in my head which I wanted to try and put into my work, but as you can see it hasn't worked as well as I had hoped.

Contact Sheets:

Concept Ideas:

Bokeh

This is a brilliant example of the photograph I wanted to achieve, but my heart making skills lacked, and ended up with this image, only the hearts were nowhere to be seen!  With my attempt, the heart shaped lens cap I had placed at the end of my camera was too large, meaning when I tried to zoom in to blur the lights out and create the heart shaped effect, all I got back was circular blurs of light.  This means next time, to improve my work, I'll have to reduce the size of the heart I cut out to successfully blur out the lights.

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