Photography-Egg photos (further experiments)

Whilst continuing to experiment with different camera settings and light and flash we had to bring in an egg to photograph. The photographs below show a selection of different images I captured both outside with natural light and inside with studio lighting.

These were the first photos that I took when starting this experiment, as you can see they are very similar to each other however, they show how I was adjusting the camera's settings in order to capture the egg as best I could.

 

 

For these next photos I experimented with the different light and colour settings on the camera, for example the use of black and white colours in the last image and the use of tungsten light in the first. Furthermore in order to control the amount of light and the direction of it I used a piece of plain white paper as I did not have a reflector, which may have added a warmth to my images.

 

 

These next three photographs were taken inside using one studio light and a gold reflector in order to try and create a 'sexy' looking egg without drawing or writing anything on the egg itself. In order to try and portray this, by working as a group of 4, we used a fur coat to nest the egg in and using different camera settings to make the lighting look warm and romantic.


 

We then continued with this romantic theme by including a model to kiss the egg, as can be seen in the third image. I think the lighting in this photo continues to work well and the use of the reflector creates some slight shadows, I also like the use of red listick and how the colour contrasts against the orange tones of the egg.



 

 We continued to photograph the egg in the studio however these photos show how we continued to push our ideas by including the use of a plastic screen. These are some of my favourite images from this day because they are clear and a different style to the other photos. We created this look by placing the light source behind the plastic screen and then standing in fron of this screen with egg, which created a silhouette look to the photos. The first image is slightly different as we used two eggs to create the shadow effect as one person stood in front of the screen and another stood behind it. What I like most about these photographs is the clearness of them and how soft the features of the images look because of the lighting.




This photograph is my favourite image of the day because I like the colourings and again the clearness, I also like how having the light behind the screen makes the objects in front of it look bolder as they become darker than what they actually are which then creates a contrast against the background. I think this photo could be improved by cropping the image even more so that the focus is purely on the subject of the eggs as there is quite a bit of space around them.









I found the given tasks enjoyable because the photographic field is the one I am most interested in, I also enjoyed experimenting with the studio lighting as it makes a big difference to the standard and look of your photos. I feel that what I achieved was successful because as the day went on I feel that I progressed with my work and the standard of my photos. The image above was the final photo that we decided on as a group to show the rest of the class and tutors, overall the feedback was positive as the style of the image was different to other peoples as no one else had used the screen, they also said that the photo could be more closely cropped which is something I will take on board when developing my images in the future. What I learnt from this task and the previous task is the camera's settings, such as ISO, shutter speed and aperture and what the best settings are for certain lighting and space. One of the things I found most challenging was thinking of how to photograph the egg in interesting ways both inside and out as everyone was photographing an egg and I wanted it to look different. I think I could improve these photographs by pushing my ideas even further in order to create unusal images that would stand out, I also think that the advice given about close cropping will have an imapct on my images and is something that with more time I will do.