For my next Crit on the 5th of May 2011...

I’m going to produce my first 7 Deadly Sins image. This is going to be my main image. I’m going to use a plain grey background. Then I’m going to get my subject to hold her head as if her head is going to explode with all the sins taking over her life. My subject is going to wear black and she is also going to have her make-up done very dark. The first sin I’m going to do is Wrath. I’m going to paint an arm white holding a bloody knife, as if the arm is going to stab my subject. I want my end result to have a dark and grungy feel to it.

CRIT 1 - 8 March 2011

We had our first critique the 8^th of March 2011. I must say I was a little bit nervous because it was the first time we had to produce images of our specialist areas.

Flora Photography

When I proposed Flower Photography the lecturers said I must try to do something different they don’t want to see something they have already seen before. I thought long and hard about it and decided that I want to produce my first image as a triptych. I showed the different stages of a flower blooming.



New Life

Close-Up Photography

I enjoy photographing subject’s close-up (macro) but give it more of an artistic feel. I like it when most of the image is out of focus to make it look like a painting.

Tree Bark

General

Here we had to shoot a moving car, showing the motion. Then we also had to shoot a static background. We then had to cut the car out of the one image and paste it into the other image.

Car in Motion

Inspiration

Tony Howell

His work really inspires me. His business and website has shown me that I do have a future in my specialist and that I can be a huge success.
http://www.tonyhowell.co.uk/index.html

There are others that also inspire me and also specialize in Flower Photography...
Brian Stratton: http://www.brianstrattonart.com/index.html
Virginia Saunders: http://www.florigraphy.com/

You know what they say "Flower Power"

Motion

We got an assignment to do, where we had to capture a car in motion after doing this assignment I played around with motion blur. My dog (Lizzy) decided to run around in our yard so I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to capture her using a slow shutter speed...

Lizzy

Lizzy

The Sun and The Moon

 "When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator” (Mahatma Gandhi)

The Sun is the star at the centre of the Solar System. It has a diameter of about 1,392,000 km about 109 times that of Earth, and its mass accounts for about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System. About three quarters of the Sun's mass consists of hydrogen, while the rest is mostly helium. Less than 2% consists of heavier elements, including oxygen, carbon, neon, iron, and others.

Full moon is a lunar phase that occurs when the Moon is on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun. More precisely, a full moon occurs when the geocentric apparent (ecliptic) longitudes of the Sun and Moon differ by 180 degrees; the Moon is then in opposition with the Sun. As seen from Earth, the hemisphere of the Moon that is facing the earth is almost fully illuminated by the Sun and appears round. Only during a full moon is the opposite hemisphere of the Moon, which is not visible from Earth completely illuminated.

Quote: http://moonphases.info/full_moon_calendar_dates.html

The Sun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun

The Moon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_moon