Wednesday, 30 May 2012

Photography: Contrast


Alright, so here we have Cody modeling. His hair and shirt are black, which makes for quite a good contrast.




Chris here is looking quite spiffy, depicting a mob boss and an old man.
Then here we have some leaves in the trails by my house. This was the day after the huge hailstorm happened. Some of the leaves were blown off the trees and onto the hail!


Cody and Braeden didn't want this picture on... But I think it works good for contrast.


Rawr. The bear on the side of the old Shopper's building. Cody's shadow does draw attention to it.


There was a hole in the wall probably for a pipe located near the picture of the bear. It stood out to me!


Then there's the typical flower in the grass. Nothing too fancy.


And then there's my board. My orange wheels contrast quite nicely with my purple board and trucks.

As with the previous projects, this was enjoyable because I got to be outside. The contrast was a bit difficult to manage because I wanted to get a bit of variety other than just black and white. I tried to use the colour wheel technique in some shots, but I'm not sure how well that turned out. If I could do this again, I would definitely try to use more black and white photos. They seem to have more class.

Friday, 18 May 2012

Photography: Leading Line

Here we have Braeden standing on a fence. I took this when we were out taking the perspective pictures and I noticed how it worked good for a leading line shot.


Here we have some of my musical instruments found in my home. I took this shot up the neck of the guitar and across the keys of a piano.

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, for the win.

Here's the current book I'm reading. No big deal or anything, but it's similar to the game located above.

Leading line featuring my eye!

And here we have a Humanoid reference. I wanted a side angle for a CD, so I chose this one because of my huge amount of love and adoration for the group.

Follow the trucks and what do you see?

Cody seems to be looking for a pass. But alas, there's nobody there!

Yeah, he's pointing. Get over it.

As stated before, I liked doing this project because of the open concept and the flowing creativity. I would have enjoyed to have more time for this project because I ended up with a bunch of not-so-hot pictures. These were the only ones I found suitable for the project.

For the next project, I would like to take more pictures of instruments. I feel that they can be used for more than just the leading line and could help me with my other projects.

Tuesday, 15 May 2012

Photography: Rule of Thirds



These are some rule of thirds shots involving my cat. Since he's a photogenic animal, I figured I can grab a bunch of shots off of him.



I made this pirate for a friend's stop motion. He's pretty awesome. With the correct angle, I figured it would be a good angle for a rule of thirds.






And these are a bunch of shots from the other day, featuring Michael, Cody and Braeden.


Alright, I enjoyed this project because I could take pictures of my cat. Next time I do rule of thirds, I would be doing more shots of people or scenery. I didn't really like that the weather was unpermitting on some days to take pictures, hence why I got pictures of my cat.

Thursday, 10 May 2012

Photography: Perspective




Here we have the bird's eye view for perspective. Braeden was the model for the majority of the pictures that I took.




Here's the worm's view. As you can see once again, I've got the skateboard perspective and the view of Braeden's shoes.





And here's the straight perspective. Mostly action, but that's better for straight perspective.

I enjoyed getting to go out and about for taking pictures. If I could do this better, I would have wanted to spend more time on the scenery, but these turned out pretty decent.