These are the edits of my virtual gallery and the process of completing it with more of my photos. To improve my virtual gallery I could crop the image of the violin and get rid of the dark edges because the background of the photo draws your eye to the sides of the image where its not the same colour instead of the main object which is the focus of the photo.
I edited the tint of the background of my photo so that it was a brighter white and didn’t have the yellowish tint to it which made the object not stand out as much because the object was lost in the background. I also made the shadows a lot darker because the contrast between the object and the background in the original image didn’t give the object any depth or size it made the image look flat and uninteresting.
These are my photos inspired by Darren Harvey-Regan “The wonders of the common tool.” The shadows on the objects give that contrast between the light background and the dark objects which makes the object look more in focus and makes it stand out. To improve these photos I’m going to change the background colour and make it whiter to get rid of the orange tint on the photos.
Walker Evens was a photographer and Photojournalist who was born on November 3rd 1903. In 1955 he was commissioned by the Fortune magazine and he took photos of tools in an article called ‘Beauties of the Common Tool’.
His photos of tools have no colour and a little amount of shadow. The tools are placed at the centre of the photo close up so we can see the detail and because they are the subject. The plain background helps draw our attention to the tools.
After Walker Evans article was published in the Fortune Magazine, Darren Harvey-Regan gook great inspiration in his photos.
What he would do is collage Walker Evans photos by cutting them in half and combining them to create photos with 2 different tools combined in a way that makes them look realistic.
To start I selected some tools similar to the ones that Walker Evens would have photographed. I decided to put a creative spin on his work by using colour instead of my photos being all black and white.
I decided to go into the lighting studio and take some photos of the tools using transparent colour sheets. here are some of the results:
Afterwards I uploaded all the photos I took to Lightroom and filtered the photos by flagging them and giving the photos star and colour ratings.
Some of the photos I took looked a bit underexposed because of the lighting so I fixed them in Lightroom and I also got rid of any dust marks caused by the camera lens with the spot remover tool. I also cropped some of the images so they were more centred and so there was nothing else in the frame.
After filtering and editing my images I had my final images, however I needed a way of presenting them. so I started by first creating A3 layouts of my final images on photoshop.
On the left image above I used triptych layout as I like the way the photos fit together almost like a jigsaw and added some thin black borders between the photos to help separate and define each photo.
On the right I used a diptych layout and added a 3D drop shadow to make the photos look like they are placed on top of a Portrait piece of A3 paper, as that’s the size of both the layouts I created.
I wanted to see what my photos looked like in a gallery so I created this virtual gallery with my final photos in.
aperture
the aperture decides how much light is let into the photo you take. how it work? well as you make the lens smaller the less light it let in and vice versa. it can also blur the foreground and background to focus on that bracket the object your taking a photo of.
shutter
the shutter speed is what it sounds like it is, it dictates how long the shutter takes to close when you takes a photo (it shows the movement of an object)
Iso
Iso controls how much light is let in to the camera, it dictates how light or dark your photo is going to be.
exposure
exposure is when the amount of light that reaches your camera creating visual data.
exposure metre
exposure meter, also called light meter, photographic auxiliary device that measures the intensity of light and indicates proper exposure
white balance
white balance helps make the colours on a photo more realistic (more intense)
auto focus
auto focus is exactually what it sounds like it automatically focus’s on the subject of the photo.
manual focus
adjusting the focus by yourself with out an aid from the camera
this is the set up i used for one of my objects photo shoots. this set up matches the settings above i have presented.
These are some of my best images from Still Life photoshoot put into a gallery.
I edited this in photoshop. I got a gallery off of the internet and pasted in to photoshop. I then pasted the pictures on to the background and changed the angle of the photo to make it look like it was sitting on the wall.
These are some of my best Objects edits in an a gallery.
These are photos I took of every day single objects that have been inspired by Walker Evans.
after taking these photos I flagged the ones I liked an decided which ones to edit, etc. Here are some of my favourites from the ones I took before edited.
I liked this one because I think it really resembled Walker Evans, I liked the shadowing on the left side and detail of the tool. I took this photo by having the camera on a with a birds eye view, then turned the light on the left side off to show clearer shadowing. In this photo I don’t like the purple tint, not sure how that happened and will hopefully be able to fic it in editing.
I also like this photo because the fact that its not a perfect circle gives character and tells a story, unfortunately there is the purple tint once again.
This was how I completed the bird eye view and had the lighting facing down, I was able to create different shadow affects and changed the angles.
For my first topic into the theme of nostalgia, i believe my outcomes for Still Life, match similarly to the works of Darren Harvey-Regan and Walker Evans.
From this topic I have also learnt a better understanding on my camera handling skills and how to better critique and understand my work by analysis of mine and other photographers work.
Final outcomes:
I have selected these as my final outcomes as I believe they have the same visual qualities of composition and photography elements that where used to make the outcomes of Walker Evans and Darren Harvey-Regan’s Still life images.