Holiday Assignment

Ok, As a joint assignment over the holidays, we are to take 3 pictures. The first will be entitled 'Happiness' The second 'Tree(s)' and the third is an open photo.
Deadline is whenever we are both back.

Submission:Flame:Smokes

As you said, the hardest part of this was not being obvious. As the last few photos I've taken have been against black I thought I'd try something different. I only had my blue background, (other than black) so thought I'd fire a red gel against it to make a purple. I was however astounded by how red the background came out.
Next problem is I don't have any candles and rubbish matches. So I used three together, and a candle lighter.
In the end I quite liked the way the side flash had caught the smoke, so here is my offering. Did four other pictures on a similar vein, which can be seen here.
One of the problems was I couldn't get close enough to the match, so I've just ordered a macro lens and some extension tubes..

Submission: Flame

I started off with just taking some photos of a candle flame, but found that to be okay, but a bit boring. I couldn't find the inspiration to do a still life composition, so instead wondered what would happen if I blew bubbles in front of the flame. That created some really interesting effects and gave the flame some movement, which it really needed. The bubbles didn't always work how I expected them to, which meant the results were unpredictable, but it was very messy and fun!

Assignment: Flame

Deadline Monday 17th December.

Submission: Power.

So here is the image that I've finally decided to post. Have been umming and ahhing about which one of these to use. Finally I used this one, as on my machine the colours have come out most like they would normally do on the batteries. This time I experimented with snoots and gels. You can see some of the other stuff and the comments using the link above. My favorite bit of this is the shiny surface, which is a shiny red cheap exercise book which I coaxed a reflection out of.

Submission: Power

I wasn't sure if I would be able to do this, as when I first turned on the light, I thought it was too bright to work with; but my eyes must have got used to it as I was able to take some photos, without using any other lighting. I then played with it a little in photoshop to give it a slightly more interesting colour. I quite liked it bright green, but decided it was better to keep it at least slightly realistic.

Assignment.

The theme for this assignment is "Power", which again can be interpreted in whatever way you want. Deadline Monday 10th December 2007.