AuburnAspectPhotography

P ortfolio and Presentation: Stage 1 : RESEARCH and PLANNING RESEARCH: Target audience Although undecided about what style of photography I want to achieve and who my target audience will be. I have decided to do my research on what I have already been trying to achieve, which is child and family portraiture. Both Location and studio based. On thinking outside the box my interests lie with medical photography and possibly down the theatre route. It is my intention to progress into degree level and in order to do this I will look into what photographic techniques are required for which course, but before I do this I would need to explore the tools needed and how I could present and maintain a portfolio that is centred around these ideas. Degree in photography Edinburgh Napier - '' The course has recently moved to a newly-built specialist photography facility, which includes five fully-equipped photography studios, a black and white darkroom, dry to dry colour film processor,

 High Key Settings used 100-1/60-f22 canon 2000d Pro photo RGB colour space  1x key light at f22 High key photography is what is used in the studio involving unusually bright lighting to reduce and blow out dark shadows in an image. These images usually incorporate light tones and avoid darker tones. High key images work well with either very little or small elements of bright colour. I decided to do my high key image on my sitter with naturally vibrant copper hair. This shoot was done in a studio using only one key light and a white background. My sitter lay on the white backdrop and I positioned her hair in a natural lay down fashion. I did not use a tripod for this image due to the angle I needed to use. The composition of my image is coming in from the left towards the top right at an angle whilst still filling the frame. I love how the brightness and contrast of my models hair stands out even though still remaining low key. The different directs of her hair give definition to the

  FOOD Research image One This image was taken from a cook book, unfortunately the photographer is not mentioned. I love this image, the colour work well, the orange with the green herbs and the pumpkin seeds show that this is pumpkin soup without actually showing any reference to an actual pumpkin. The composition works really well sowing rule of thirds, the bowl of soup, spoon chopping board and herbs are all in the frame at the left hand side of the image showing the right side with open space. I believe the lighting for this image would have probably been on main key list directly from above. The shadowing from underneath each bowl shows this as if they light were coming from above the image then the light would not reach underneath the soup bowl. I like how the overall soup bowl has been neatly presented although randomly scattered. I do feel though that the the composition is quite bare, there are too many elements on the left hand side and empty on the right. Maybe using some br