Final Major Project: Shoot 4

I was doing research into the positions of the triple jump, as my photograph was posed and I wanted to make sure that I had posed the picture right for the landing of the triple jump. I came across this photograph on google images and instantly thought of doing my next images like this.

I decided to have two sets of images: people posed doing the sport and just trainers posed with some props so you can tell what the sport is.
So far I had already photographed and videoed:
Football
High Jump
Triple Jump
Rock Climbing
Running
Javelin

I still needed to photograph tennis and re-do my football pictures and then do my new trainer poses. I rang up places near to where I lived which had tennis courts and luckily Heaton Tennis Club allowed me to take my photographs.
I also decided to go back to Goals where I took my football pictures and retake my images.
When I was taking my images I decided to be a bit creative by have shadows of people posing and having the shoes placed as if there were people in them.
I had also posed the shoes by tying them up on the surrounding objects such as nets. 

Image 1:
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Image 2:
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Image 3:
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Image 4:
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I then decided to reopen the original image because after it was cropped the unsharp mask was too much and the image was grainy.

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Image 7:
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I didn't know how to crop this image because either way I would lose part of the shoes. 

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 Image 9:
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While I was editing my photographs I started to think about how big I want to print my images off. I decided to have all my images set to A4 because I want my images to be quite big so you can see the detail in the trainers, but not too big like A2, and it's not too small like previous prints I had which were 10x8. 

Final Major Project: Shoot 3

Normal footwear:

Specail Rock Climbing shoes:

I decided to use the selective colour to tone down the green wall as it was very distracting and overpowering.

 I took my rock climbing photographs at the Leeds Wall. When I did rock climbing I was able to wear any trainers but going to the Leeds wall I saw that people had special footwear.

This could relate to my work because, I have to make up the name for my trainer shop as I can't use an existing shoe shop name,  and the shop could sell even special shoes such as rock climbing and golf.
I used my flash gun for these photographs as inside was too dark to not use my flash. I moved the flashes around so that they were pointed to the shoes. 

In Photoshop I sharpened the images I didnt need to correct my levels as the picture was bright enough.

I was disappointed with my images taken so far because the flash gun was not having the desired effect I wanted.

Final Major Project: 2nd Critique

Images presented at critique:



We went around the classroom looking at each others work and then we sat down and talked about each others pictures individually. Here is what other people said about my images:

What is going well with my project:

*Close up shots not of the whole body and no faces in the photographs

*They look like they are sports or footwear images and that they have been taken in action

What isn't going well with my photographs:

* The ambient is flat and the people look stuck onto the background.

* Images are a bit too dark

How can I move my project forward:

* More action photographs and stay close to the trainers.

After showing my images to the class I felt that the layer over the top creating the darkness was too much and that I didn't like the flash gun effect and I didn't want to use the flash guns anymore.

Final Major Project: Shoot 2

For my next shoot I went to a sports centre in Cleckheaton.

 I photographed people from their sporting event. As they were in competition and I wanted to capture the sports in action I wasn't able to get as close as I would have wanted and I wasn't allowed to use my flash. 

The first sport I photographed was the high jump and I was allowed to take photographs while people were practising. 

I was able to take some photographs as well when they were in competition as I was trying to capture the moment of going over the bar so the whole person was in view as well as the trainers. As I didn't have my camera set to continuous shooting I missed most of the action. 

From then on the rest of my photographs were posed but I did get some while the competition was happening.

I then decided which photographs I liked best and edited them all in the same way with levels, smart sharpen, and cropping.

When I was looking through my images I decided to make a layer over my image to darken the background so it would look similar to my football image where the background was dark and the person was bright.

Football image:

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 Opacity layer is set at 20%

I had orginally wanted to have the opacity of the layer this dark to match my football picture.

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Layer set at 30%

 Original opacity layer:

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Opacity layer is at 30%

I orginally had the oapcity layer very dark:

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This image was the most difficult to edit because of the chronic abberation around his arms and legs due to the background being so bright. Unfortunately I took all the images in JPEG so I couldn't resolve this issue in photoshop. If I had taken my photographs in RAW files then I would have been able to fix the chronic abberation as there is an option when you open the RAW image in photoshop.

I also didn't like this image because it was too far away from the trainers and it was a whole body shot, whereas my other images were up close and just a section of their body.