Reflection and Framing Work Diary

How I Made These Images
To make these images I used a Nikon D3300 Camera with a 18-55mm lens. For
reflection and framing I wanted to capture a range of different and creative ideas so I travel around the local town center to capture as many different things as possible to mix-up the subjects within the images. I also used the college campus to capture some of these images. The camera settings were manual and I adjusted the Shutter Speed, Aperture and ISO depending on the surroundings and the subject. All of the images I have taken I like and there isn't one that I particularly dislike.

Critical Evaluation
I feel that I have successfully captured the subject within all of my images, however, there are still a few images that don't stand out to me as much as the others do.

This first image shows both reflection and framing perfectly. However, I don't like the composition of the image. I would have preferred for the framing to be head on and not at an angle. Then, instead of capturing the reflection of buildings, my reflection would be seen within the mirror.

The second image is sloppy and unprofessional in terms of the composition and the subjects within the image. There is too much going on in the background of the image and there is a few parts of the foreground peeking into frame that I feel are distracting. The main subject, being the man, could've been placed deeper within frame so that we can see more detail. Also, the framing could've been more centered and the overall image could've been taken so that distractions weren't present and so that the subject was in frame further.





Progress
To edit all of these images I used a large range of tools and techniques that Photoshop offered.

This particular image is one of my favorites that I've taken so far throughout the entirety of my Photography Course. There isn't a particular reason why I am just fond of the image. The image itself is very reminiscent of a famous Photographer's work known as Rut Blees Luxemburg who was in fact my inspiration for this particular image.

To edit this image I used a few different tools within Photoshop. I began by cropping a very small portion of the image out at the top as there was a small piece of a wall in the top left corner. I followed this by heightening the saturation of the colours so that the colours of the floor and within the reflection stand out more than they originally did. I finalized the image by adjusting the curves slightly so that the overall image was slightly darker.

This next image is another one of my favorites due to the bright colours and the combination of both reflection and framing within a single image.

To edit this image, I used many tools. I began by cropping the bottom of the image out of frame due to a curb being a distraction within the background. As the lens of the subject camera having specs of dirt and dust on it, I used the spot healing tool to eliminate these tiny distractions. The reason as to why I did this is because when an audience member looks closely into detail of the image, these small blemishes would be noticed and I want my final images to be as seamless as possible. The original images colour wasn't particularly saturated - Because of this, I used the hue and saturation tool to brighten the colours and to make them seem brighter than they actually are. This goes for both the subject and the background of the image.

These next three images were edited using an editing technique known to me as colour popping. This technique selects an area of the image and turns is back and white so that the un-selected areas stay in colour and pop out to audience members.


I wanted to keep this image's editing simple so therefore this image was only edited using the technique of colour popping.

This next image is another one of my favorites for many reasons. The use of the editing technique of colour popping allows for the image to give a sense of another world being in the image through the use of framing.

I used the hue and saturation tool to further brighten the colours within the image and to make them brighter so that they standout even further when combined with the colour popping.

This final image is very abstract. The mirrored tile almost seems ethereal when edited. I have edited the image in this fashion so that the audience look at the image and wonder what is inside the center tile as I feel that there is an illusion of a portal.

To edit this image I colour popped the center tile so that the rest of the colours were black and white. I altered the contrast of the black and white section by selecting the section with the magic wand tool.after this is when I used the contrast                                     tool to bounce the shades of black and white off of each other.