Practise shoot for final piece

 

Now i have chosen where i am going to go for my boy and girl shots i tried some different shots to test out the skills. I chose to pick black and white with the contrast up to highlight the lights and the brightness down to darkn the shadows. I also decided they represented the nursery rhyme better when the are shot single and not together.

In my first photo i wanted to find a way of representing the part of the rhyme that is "slugs and snails" unfortunatly there were no slugs or snails around, instead i just used another little bug. However i think it doesnt stand out enough but i really like how the photo highlights the creases in the hand using the mud on the hands.










On this photo i wanted to play again with just developing my shots, in this shot i just wanted to represent the messy side of being a boy, and playing in the garden like a little boy should. i also like how grass sprouts up and it also represnts the rugud boyish side. The contrast of the skin comes through and this shadows the mud also.

 In this photo i wanted to represent the whole of the boy and show him in a messy more playful mysterious back ground instead of the grass. I like how the boys body stands out cause of the tshirt, and also the mud down the legs. I like the bare feet on here to show the way in which boys think they are invinsible.












 

In this photo i was just playing with the composition, I like how this photo has only one arm fully in and the bodies to come side. I also was playing with the use of brightness and contrast again. i like how the body is bought out by the darkness in the back.

This is the same picture as before, however i kept the colouring in it, but played with the contrast again. I then added a burnt edge to mimck i-antons soft playful work. I then added the light spots of the girl just to add an even more innocent touch to it. I like how much they show up becuase of the dark background.

In this photo I wanted to try out having them both in the photo and highlighting the innocence through the colours. So I turned the saturation down on the photo completely and then turned up the brightness and up the contrast. I then erased the black and white with the colour. I like this photo but i think you look quite alot of the nnocence to it through the loss of colour. however I like the pose as i think its quite sweet.

 
In this photo i was developing my ideas for the colours in the photo, in this top photo i made the photo back and white and played with erasing it and bringing out the colour, i like this idea as the colours stand out alot more vibrant, however i think soft tones show more the nursery rhymes.







 

In this photo i softened the colours and added the light spots from the photo editing software. I think these soft tones show the nursery rhyme alot better. I really like this image and would consider taking it into my final piece, but possible playing with the composition.










The use of these photos was to decide on my colours and ideas for the girls photographs, i think i am going to go for the bottom one which brings out the soft innocent girly tones. This also mimmicks the photographers i have used such as i-Anton as the colours are bought out nicely specially in the things such as the bows and lollipop.

In these photos I was making decisions of how I wanted to represnt the photos colour wise, and after doing these i have decided this style is most appropriate for the boy. These are my second lots of developments, i tried again making them both stand out for being the boy and the girl, however i think the girls one makes her legs not look that girly, it shows out the bruises on her legs, and my plan was to make her look pristine and girly, however i do like the effect of how it the contrasting the light tones are. I really like the boys though as it has darker shadows and this brings out the muck on his knees. i find the branch in front of his leg quite distracting but i do like how it adds the effect that he's in a muddy kind of forest. I like the composition and how they are both very central, and the position of the girls legs are softer and slightly raised but the boys are quite firm, The style of the dark tones almost comes across like a drawing out of a childs book, i like this effect and want to try and practise this more. I feel this represents the work by Petr Drozdov as the colours are dark with the lights bought out and the shadows turned down, this is like the response i did to his work.

 

Initial Experimentation.


I then went on to develop where i took the photos, in this one i used just the girl infront of a hedge. I then tried playing with the tones. In the first one i played with the hue to make the grass stand out more. I like this look and i think the shadowing on the legs look nice, however i think some of the tones done come out for example the movement in the dress.
The second photo i turned black and white and then i played with the colours taking away and putting back. I really like how it makes the grass look rural and almost makes the girl stand out more. I like this photo and the shadowing that has gathered under the dress.
The third photo i darkened the black and whitye filter. I like this photo as i think the firl stands our most because of the dark background. I played with the contrast so that the background was darker and the girl was brighter. I like the shadowing at the sides opf the leg which gives it a more young girl kind of look to it.
I like the photo because i think the hand pose on it makes her look sweet and innocent, i like also the background on it also and the way it helps for the body to stand out more.

Research into the nursery rhyme.
when looking into the nursery rhyme i learnt that the stanzahs actually come from another poem as a whole, called "what are folks made of?" It dated back to the early 19th cenurary. other versions may describe boys as being made of "frogs", "snakes", or "snips", rather than "slugs"




Initial Ideas

Here are my initial photos when i was exploring the nursery rhyme and how i wanted to show it. I used a boy and a girl to represent each side of the poem. I used them in natural surroundings to cover the poem. I wanted to show the girl and boy side of them poem through the way they look. i think i need to scuff up the boys knees more and add some exrta items to the girl to show the different sides more.

Statement of intent.
For my title I picked Nursery Rhymes. I want to look at the innocent and child like side of the topic, but using older models. I want to explore the chance of still being innocent regardless of your age. I want to explore this through the two nursery rhymes below. I want to use the skills of the soft work by I-anton. I want to explore using bright colours in my photos but maybe also dark tones to show more emotion.

 

What are little boys made of?

What are little boys made of?

Slugs and snails

          And puppy-dogs' tails,

 

What are little girls made of?

What are little girls made of?

Sugar and spice

And everything nice

 

This is my response to i-Antons photo, i like the photo as i think its quite an innocent sweet photo. I took the photo on the studio with a harsh light on the left side. I then Also had to take a picture of clouds to merge with the other photo. I really like how the red bow stands out in the hair. I played with the contrast to then highlight to shadowing more on the right side. I used the "through effect" to put the clouds on top of the original photo.  On Photo plus i found a tool which burned the edges to mimic the original photo. If i was to improve this i would define the shoulders more. I like how something quite simple can represent something in this photo for example to innocence the red bow brings. I want to take this technique forward of the innocence of the photo.

This is my response to Suzy Wimbourne, it represents the nursery rhyme three blind mouse. I like the innocence of the aninmal. I took a range of photos of Reena and then chose three. I then copy and pasted them on to the under layer and played with the opactiy to have the look of them on top of each other. The tones are quite soft and the colours are quite dark. Overall i like he photo but i think its abit predictable.