These edited images of shoot 5  represent Jasmine’s room as a far more delicate, more feminine space rather then another environment I have looked at such as Zacs room. I wanted to edit the temperature of these images in a cooler way which fits in nicely with the purple and white colour scheme of her room. Also, similar to previous shoots I have edited I made the whites in these images really bright to make an interesting contrast of intrusive light and cool shadows.

I think the image below is well composed. Jamine’s head is in the rule of thirds, immediately making her an obvious focus point in this shoot. She is getting ready with her make up at her desk, which is a prime example of what she uses her room for in everyday life. I wanted to focus on the features of Jasmine’s room that make it more feminine, and more of an obvious environment for a girl.

I really like this image due to its composition and that way the shadows work against the light pouring through the blinds. In my opinion the delicate light coming through the blinds against the almost silhouette gives an almost intimate feel.

In this next image I used a high aperture and quicker shutter speed to get a small depth of field. I focused of the back of jasmines head, which had corresponding lines of light streaking down it. I also caught Jasmines face in the mirror to the right side of the image, however this section is blurred. It is really interesting the way the light on her head in the mirror seems to line up with the light on the back of her head in the foreground and gives the image a nice flow of movement for our eyes to move across. This again strikes feelings of intimacy due to the delicate lighting and composition.

The four images below show examples of my further experimentation with slightly closer portraits of Jasmine, using the available light coming through the blinds. I focused more on Jasmine putting on make up, a considerably personal activity that is usually done at home. I again wanted to represent Jasmine in her environment as delicate, and I believe I succeeded by taking these photos in the close up portrait style, as well as by editing them all to give a cooler atmosphere.

These last images show some personal features of Jasmines room that I thought would be ideal to photograph to represent Jasmine’s environment. They also show the room as a whole, where we can see the obvious features that make it a more delicate, feminine environment, contrasting heavily to previous shoots. 

This is my contact sheet for my fifth shoot, focusing on Jasmine in her room. We spend time in her room and at her house often, and so it was a good environment to photograph. I wanted to try make more intimate images for this shoot, and i tried to do this by things such as shooting closely to her and experimenting with the natural light available through the blinds to produce more atmospheric outcomes. I am fairly happy with this shoot as I managed to create some interesting, intimate images that I may use in my final prints.

For my fifth shoot I want to focus on photographing my girlfriend. This links with the theme environment as in my opinion our relationship can be considered a personal environment. We spend a lot of time together at her house, and so I want to photograph her in her room focusing on whatever she is doing at the time. I do not want to direct the shoot as I want it to be documentary photography, showing a true perception of whatever she is doing in this environment.

These are the images I took in my weekend in Yorkshire. I managed to take a  lot of documentary style and landscape and portrait photos of the natural environment of the area in which my family is from, as well as my family themselves.

I am very happy with these edits as they show an array of experimentation, focusing on motion and light influenced by the idea of travelling around in  cars with friends.

The first couple of images are straight shot, but I edited them to make them brighter, warmer and just overall slightly more cinematic. I also tried to use parts of the car to compose the image, for example in the first photo I used to window of my car to fit around Lucas and the door of the other car, creative corresponding shapes and a nice focus point.

I took the image below to show the environment of my car and how I used it to mix music often. I also edited it to look cinematic in the same way as the previous images.

The next two images are my first examples of light painting from the shoot. I like them as they resemble a soft, abstract painting which is really interesting to look at. The sunset in the background created a nice smear of colour, and the sharp shapes made by the movement of my camera over the dashboard create an interesting contrast to the general blurriness.

As it got dark I began experimenting with flash along with a slow shutter speed, and found that I could manipulate this to have the following effect. I was able to capture a sharp image with the flash, but due to the lack of light outside I could move my camera over the dashboard in the same shutter opening and draw over the image the flash captured. I began to play around with this a lot from here. I really like the craziness of the next image, and I was able to capture and draw with the speedometer fitting in nicely with the theme of motion and driving around in my car.

I was able to create an almost exploding effect by experimenting with zoom and slow shutter speed. I began the shutter zoomed in on Zacs phone, and whilst the shutter stayed open I zoomed out, expanding the phone outwards.

With the next few images, I experimented with the flash and shutter speed again, but this time drawing over Zac. I tried to think about the composition of the images, thinking about where the lights would be on the photos as I was moving my camera, I was able to make some interesting images drawing over and around Zac.

I really like the image below as I was able to draw the light around the curve of Zacs head, almost like a translucent bandanna, whilst keeping the portrait in sharpness.

The following images are some portraits, edited slightly warmer with a higher clarity. This is again to look slightly cinematic, which I furthered with the next image by experimenting with cropping sizes. The bottom of his head was originally cut out of the frame and so I cut down the top to make a more panoramic view of this scene of my friend in his car.

The following photos were made and edited to get really extreme, far more abstract images, more similar to paintings that capture a great amount of motion. The image below is actually a portrait that I have edited heavily. I used a slow shutter and shook my camera diagonally to create this effect. I then edited to colours to make it look a lot warmer, getting different hues of red and orange.

These two images were edited even more heavily, to create more interesting hues. I took the photos of lights in my car, and moved my camera, making repeated shapes from each light, just with different colours. This made a very interesting effect of repetition of these shapes in an extremely abstract way.

The next image is one of my favorites in this painted, mysterious abstract style. It is an image of my radio I made with again, a slow shutter speed and sharp small movements of the camera. The amount of lights on the radio meant that there would be lots and lots of small repetitions with each light, and the overall effect is this amazing flowing cylindrical light shape made up of lots of fading lines with many different blue hues.

These next three images are slightly more clear, but again still very blurry. I focused more on the movements of the person in these pictures rather then shaking my camera too much (although I still did slightly). The outcome of this was an abstract painting-esque image portraying movements of his head and arms all in the singe frame.

These following images show more tradition light painting. Using a phone torch, I got Jasmine to wave it about attempting to draw around the shape of the window in different ways. The outcomes were interesting.