PHOTO SHOOT THREE:
Below is the contact strip for this photo shoot in which I positioned my subject against a landscape that had no other people or cars and captured another set of images they conveyed my theme of isolation. From these images I then picked some to edit and analyse in the style of Andy Ellis regarding the colour and emotions that I conveyed in each piece.
PHOTO ONE:
This is the first image that I edited for this photo shoot that has developed from my first and second photo shoots. In my second photo shoot I experimented with editing my images in black and white to help convey the emotions that I am trying to create within this project, taking inspiration from the work of Andy Ellis. I wanted to experiment with this again with another photo shoot so I edited these images in black and white and played around with elements such as the brightness, contrast, colour balance and levels to give some depth to these images. In this particular image I turned the brightness down to make the image darker to help amplify the feeling of discomfort within the subject and turned the contrast up to help the subject stand out from the already dark landscape. I also changed the balance of each colour when turning the image into black and white to add some depth to the image and to ensure that it was not just in greyscale but with darker areas to highlight the subject as the focal point.
In this image I have positioned my subject near to the centre of the frame but off to the left hand side slightly: this is to reflect the direction in which the subject is looking which may also influence the initial direction in which the viewer looks. I have intentionally cropped this image so that it appears as if the subject is looking up and out of the shot, longing to be somewhere else to help reflect that she is isolated is the wooded area and is contemplating going up the path with the iron gate. The lack of colour in this image suggests that the subject is feeling lost and is portraying negative emotions to the viewer as the usual 'happy' and 'cheery' colours that would reflect happiness and joy are not in the photograph so the viewers intitial response would be negative.
I like the positioning of the subject in this image as I feel that it reflects how alone and lost she is in the unknown environment: the gate looks rusty and bent out of place which suggests that it hasn't been used for a while and the ivy growing everywhere suggets that is place has been forgotten about. The body language of the subject also shows that she doesn't know what to do: even though her face is gazing up towards that area, her body suggests that she doesn't want to go up into to isolated territory and wants to carry down on the path she is on in hopes of finding civilisation. Overall, I think that this image reflects my theme of isolation well and I believe that the technique of editing the image into black and white in the style of Andy Ellis works very well on creating the right atmosphere for my piece.
In this image I have positioned my subject near to the centre of the frame but off to the left hand side slightly: this is to reflect the direction in which the subject is looking which may also influence the initial direction in which the viewer looks. I have intentionally cropped this image so that it appears as if the subject is looking up and out of the shot, longing to be somewhere else to help reflect that she is isolated is the wooded area and is contemplating going up the path with the iron gate. The lack of colour in this image suggests that the subject is feeling lost and is portraying negative emotions to the viewer as the usual 'happy' and 'cheery' colours that would reflect happiness and joy are not in the photograph so the viewers intitial response would be negative.
I like the positioning of the subject in this image as I feel that it reflects how alone and lost she is in the unknown environment: the gate looks rusty and bent out of place which suggests that it hasn't been used for a while and the ivy growing everywhere suggets that is place has been forgotten about. The body language of the subject also shows that she doesn't know what to do: even though her face is gazing up towards that area, her body suggests that she doesn't want to go up into to isolated territory and wants to carry down on the path she is on in hopes of finding civilisation. Overall, I think that this image reflects my theme of isolation well and I believe that the technique of editing the image into black and white in the style of Andy Ellis works very well on creating the right atmosphere for my piece.
PHOTO TWO:
I also edited this image in black and white to reflect the same emotions as I did in the image above and to incorporate the same elements that I took from Andy Ellis' work when researching. I intentionally blurred the background of this image as I was aware that the subject may not be the intial focal point of the image: this is a long shot which means that more of the image was in focus then in the medium or close up shots that I have been doing before so to ensure that the subject was the centre of focus I blurred the trees in the background and took away some of the foreground by cropping the image. This then allowed me to retain the focus on the subject and the tree that is in the mid-ground of the shot and helped me to convey the emotions that I wnated to portray my theme of isolation to the viewer.
I like the framing of this shot as I feel that by having the full length of the subject in the image it has allowed me to show the viewer all of the body language of the subject. This image is showing a more relaxed perspective on the idea of isolation as the subject seems to be embracing nature and coming at one with being alone: this is one of the positive sides of isolation that Andy Ellis explores in his work and I feel that I have used this technique to my advantage in taking the same intial idea but turning it into my own through my choice of background and composition. The face and hair of my subject looks slightly blurry compared to the rest of the image but this is because the softer lines became even softer when I altered the contrast and colours within the piece: this is because I wnated the lines of the trees to be softer to allow me to blur them but unfortunatly it blurred the hair too.
I like the framing of this shot as I feel that by having the full length of the subject in the image it has allowed me to show the viewer all of the body language of the subject. This image is showing a more relaxed perspective on the idea of isolation as the subject seems to be embracing nature and coming at one with being alone: this is one of the positive sides of isolation that Andy Ellis explores in his work and I feel that I have used this technique to my advantage in taking the same intial idea but turning it into my own through my choice of background and composition. The face and hair of my subject looks slightly blurry compared to the rest of the image but this is because the softer lines became even softer when I altered the contrast and colours within the piece: this is because I wnated the lines of the trees to be softer to allow me to blur them but unfortunatly it blurred the hair too.