Competition

I entered a macro shot competition. The voting is now closed but i don't know how well i did. Below is a image of the photo I entered and below that are comments.

Below is the website I entered my macro shot.

http://www.pictures2win.com/competition/Best%20Macro%20Photo%20/42/3045/

Digital Darkroom (2): Writing a Caption

Writing a caption

As you can see in the screen shot to the left, I have wrote a caption. This is so I can make notes while looking through your images.

Digital Darkroom (1): Importing and Organising

Importing Files/Folders

As you can see in the screen capture to the left, i have imported some images. It shows you how it is importing.

Naming Files/Folders

As seen in this screen shot to the left you can see that I am about to import my files but I have changed the file name so instead of the files being called JPEG's I've renamed them to Pinocchio.

Organising Files/Folders

As you can see in the screen shot to the left my files are in alphabetical order. The are organised making it easier for me when editing to find the folder i need quicker and easier.

This is a closer few of my organised files and folders.

Street Light

I chose to take an image of a car underneath a street light because the protection over the lights of the car is see through so it showed off the colour of the street light better.



I took two shots of the car with the street light but changed the setting on my camera to tungsten and flurscent. The tungsten setting was used in the image to the left. The light looks white and shows the individual colours off.



This means that the tungsten setting and the street light both light at the same degree kelvins which is about 3200 so they make the light neutral.








This shot was taking using the flurscent setting on my camera, as you can see the car and the background has a orange tint to it.

Blog Sites

I have done some research on some other blogs, to find inspiration and ideas for my blog.
I had a look at this link below and I liked how the top bar has an image in it and straight away it made me wont to continue reading.
http://iron-mitten.blogspot.com/

A screen shot of the image:-

Commercial Product

For our commercial products I have a few ideas which i am going to test out and choose the best. This product is one of my ideas "Pinocchio" which is one of the Disney Traditional Collectibles. The two images below is the character that I'm photographing but what i have done below i am not happy with.



I like the way the character looks, but i tried to get a different background then just white but the wood behind looks dirty and it cuts of to white so the wood isn't continuous so Ive decided this is one of my practise shots.















Again with this image i tried to use a white background but at the time I didn't have one so i led the figurine on a white pillow not realising that's it doesn't look correct as it looks like he is floating in mid air.














I feel that even though what Ive done I'm not to use towards my final product I feel that I've learnt that you have to be aware of everything you photography and how it will look within the shot.

I attempted to take another picture of Pinocchio. I used the studio and used a white background and studio lighting. This Image is much better than the others above. It has a slight blue edge around the figurine but because it is at the centre of body your eyes go towards it and the colour blue goes well with the blues on Pinocchio. I posioned to him so he is facing the screen, this is so it shows more of him off.

Magic Hour: Sun Setting

I went to the top of Darwen Tower at the beginning of October to get a image of "Magic Hour". Magic hour is the first or last day of sunlight as it rises or sets, it creates an atmosphere on the horizon and gives out different colours of light.

Some examples of Magic hours from other photographers are below.

These images below are some that I've taken.

I feel that I've captured what Magic Hour does to the horizon but I could of done better. For example I've taken all my images looking into the sun. Whereas I should of taken a picture of something using the lighting from magic hour.

I was high up. So I was able to see the sun setting til the very end. This image shows you the different colour of light what the sun setting makes.

If I was do to it again I would capture something in the image to get the atmosphere rather than the actual sun setting.

Since these images I have tried since then to do more sunset pictures but they haven't been successful but I feel since taking these images I have learnt more. The more I go out and capture I feel i am improving.