Final Location Folio Images

So here are my final seven images for the location folio.

The folio as a series perhaps doesn't flow well but I am happy with the each individual image.

More Shoots

So this are pretty much the last shoots I've done for the folio. I worked inside for this images as the window light was perfect. 

Prep Image

I shot this image purely because I wanted to show the lead up to the muffin shot below. The shot is pretty simple, but I don't think is exactly what I'm after in terms of my final folio. 

Muffin Shots

Out of all the images I have shot so far, this one is my favourite. I took my time to cook, prepare and set up the shot and I think the result is much better than previous shoots. 

Salad Shots

With these shots I set up a small table next to the window. I used a small reflector to bounce some light onto the front of the image. 

 


 Salad Shots

This shoot was the last of all my food shoots. I didn't want to over crowd the image too much so I simply included a coloured table cloth to bring out the green in the wrap.

This shot doesn't work as well as the above image. It is underexposed the composition is not as clean as the top one.

Wedding Workshop with Hilary Wardhaugh

For this workshop Hilary gave us a talk on Wedding Photography and her methods of presenting to clients, how she shoots - candid and posed shots along with marketing and what sort of shots sell for her.

We then walked over to St John's church in Reid where she gave a short exercise on shooting weddings.

Some important factors that Hilary talked about include:

- When shooting in environments that have many different colour casts, such as the lighting in St John's which is very yellow but includes stained glass windows letting through natural light, it is best to convert your images to black and white during the post production stage.

- Arrive at the church before the bride to get those critical entry images

- use any outside backgrounds to your advance and when taking outside shots use a long lens to get that nice depth of field

- With candid shots it is good to be a fair distance a away from your subject to get a strong depth of field and a nice natural tone.

- With posing, get your subjects to walk in a line and shoot from roughly 4-5 metres away depending on your lens to create images that aren't so posed

- On the day carry two camera bodies with you with perhaps one long lens and one short/fixed. This will mean you can switch between the two when needed and no time is wasted with changing lens

- Always carry with you extra memory cards, once they are full keep them in a secure place preferably on you, not with the assistant.

Here are some examples of Hilary's wedding work

image ref. http://www.hwp.com.au/

Photojournalism Workshop 2

These are some of the notes I took during Belinda's talk about photojournalism

Start shooting on approach
- get the overall shot
- move in to tell the story
- don't leave until the action is over

Angles and Perspective
- low angles can give power to the image or person
- higher angles e.g shooting above a crowd can get a better shot

Technical Strategies
- preset your camera
- Use auto focus and shoot on continuous
- timing

Capturing Emotions
- constantly observe to get that perfect emotive shot
- faces and hands reveal emotion

Features Vs News
- news photos are over in a day
- feature photos are timeless

Some examples of Belinda's photojournalism work can be seen below

Image ref. http://www.liveguide.com.au/Arts_and_Theatres/667770/Belinda_Pratten/Esperanza_Belinda_Pratten?event_id=667770#details

Image ref. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/special-reports/julia-gillards-political-success-a-win-for-her-home-state-of-victoria/story-fn5ko0pw-1225915572364

With this image above Belinda showed us the series of images leading up to this shot and talked about how important it is to keep shooting tho get that perfect shot. 

Further Food Shots

Here are some more food shots for my location folio. I travelled to Gundaroo to a friend's restaurant to shoot the images. I tried a few different angles of the pizza. I think the images with the pizza filling most of the frame are the most successful. 

I'm not really happy with this image, but I have included it anyway. For one thing it is not sharp enough and I'm not really happy with the plating and background. The shot overall is pretty messy.

Vehicles - Location Shoot

For this workshop we set out to shoot some cars down at the lake. It was a cold, cold, sunset and the weather really turned me off shooting. The overall exercise of shooting after sunset was interesting and informative and below are some of the shots our group took of Ginette's car. Speedlites were also used to paint the extra light needed on the subject.

Aerial Photography

Geoff Comfort


Vertical aerial photography - hole in the bottom of plane, one/two cameras are strapped in. This sort of photography is mainly used for mapping and the calculation of heights of mountains, rivers, etc. Example of vertical aerial photography can be seen below 

Image ref. http://www.aerialaspectphoto.com/applications.html

The other type of aerial photography is oblique photography which is shot usually from the door of the aircraft. The uses for oblique aerial photography include real estate and historial documentation. 

Image ref. http://www.aerialaspectphoto.com/applications.html

The last type of aerial photography that Geoff Comfort spoke about was Air to Air. This is basically refers to air craft to air craft images. An example of this can be seen below.

Image ref. http://www.aerialarchives.com/airlines.htm

One thing that is important to consider is when photographing any aircraft with propellers, you need to use a slow enough shutter speed to have movement in the propellers otherwise the plane will look as though it is still.

Below are some examples of Geoff Comfort aerial photography. 

Image ref. http://www.geoffcomfort.com/aerial.html