A04

Fashion

 Images in fashion magazines always have exagrated colors and details, so I chose to shoot the pair of shoes in such an angel and then make the color more saturated in Photoshop.
I want the shoes looked like they were being wore by someone but I don't want any real people in the frame, so I chose to set the shoes in such positions to make them like walking. The colores of the shoes and the mat underneath were  actually red and white. To make the picture looks more fashionable and fantastic, I adjusted the saturation value.
Students in the class mentioned about the colors of the background were too bright. So if I redo this picture I will try to darken the background or make the backgound color desaturated.
I may wanna do a set of photos of fashion items, they are all in red and white. I will try to place them together and make them in different positions then shoot a series of pictures.

Postcard

 Initially the prompt of the original picture was advertisement, but after I edited it in photoshop I found it more looked like a picture on a post card. I placed the two stuffed toys on a fluffy pillow and used only a small lamp as my light source which was really soft. I framed the paws as the main figures because I want to show the details in the photo. My classmates said they like the soft light and the colors in this picture, which I believed were the best tools to make it looks like a postcard picture.
If I redo the picture, I may try it in a higher contrast value.
For extention, I want to do a series of details of diffenrent parts of the stuffed toys.

Advertisement

 

I used only a lamp as my light source of this picture. I want my viewers to focus only on the teddy bear. In the ads I saw before, they always only highlight the product they were propagating. So I darkened all the background to make my main figure being concentrated. Also when I was framing, I put only that bear in my frame.
In the critique mu classmates suggested me us a black pillow next time, because the colors of the bottom part of the bear and the pillow under it were a little mixed together. So if I redo this photo, I will try use another pillow in a dark color.
For extension, I will try to shoot the bear in defferent angles, and give people a 360 degrees view of it.

Posrcard

 

In many of the postcards the pictures are showing beautiful landscapes, plants, or animals. So I chose to recreate a picture of beautiful plant which is very common in summer. I found it was more beautiful to shoot this pink flower from side instead of from above, so I framed like this and made my focus only on the side of the flower. I used photoshop to make the general colors more saturated, because the color of the picture on postcards are aloways bright and outstanding. For extension I may want to try the same photo in different hues. I guess it will turn out to be a colorful and beautiful series.