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DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY 1

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY 1. Thematic Project Work Diary By Jackie Perris, Student # 21485934. 18/10/2013 Week 1.

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DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY 1

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  1. DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY 1 Thematic Project Work Diary By Jackie Perris, Student # 21485934

  2. 18/10/2013 Week 1 • It’s the first week and I am super keen about this subject. I work in marketing so deal with advertising and imagery every day. However as a manager I only oversee all the creative and do not do the creative work. In addition, photography is a passion of mine and I have purchased a Nikon D90 camera a few years back but never actually learnt any of its functions. I have absolutely no experience in Photoshop, so I hope this subject will give me the confidence and skills to diverse into this area that I am truly passionate about.

  3. 25/10/2013 Week 2 • Learning Photoshop this week. Whilst completing Task 2, I was extremely daunted about this program. How am I supposed to understand all the functions it has to offer. Thank goodness for Photoshop help and the tutorials the lecturer has provided. The link below with Photoshop basics tutorials was extremely helpful particularly learning about the layer / masks / panels and CS6 Interface. • http://www.photoshopessentials.com/basics/

  4. 01/11/2013 Week 3 • Time to start thinking about Option B the Thematic Project. What to do, what to do, what to do? I need a theme that will not cost too much and will work in my local vicinity as I work full time, study part time and have a 14 month old son. It would be so much easier if my husband was home however he works away out on the gas fields so is only home 1 week a month  • With a minor melt down given work and study workload I was seriously considering just doing Part A only. But I don’t want just a pass and I am really enjoying learning my camera skills and Photoshop, so thinking cap has been on and two themes I have in mind is doing images around ‘Motion’ or creating images from a certain view. For example my 14 month old son is starting to reach up on tables and trying to peek to see what is on there. I often wonder what it would be like to theme the pictures from the view in his world! Hmm considerations.

  5. What Should My theme be? One thought is to tailor the images from “the eyes of my 14 month old”.

  6. 15/11/2013 Week 5 • Light Bulb Moment!!!!! • I was in a conversation at work about ‘Twerking’ and the Miley Cirus performance at the VMA awards back in August. The girls to put it politely thought it was distasteful. The topic then twisted to nudity in many music clips and why do they do it. Is the concept of sex sells wrong? Are the females that do it a disgrace or does it portray confidence. After all, these celebrities all have the figures to flaunt so why not and why criticise them for doing it? • This definitely had me thinking.. And I soon decided my opinion on the subject and what I want to do for my thematic project. ‘Provocative’ has to be my theme. All the opinions or attitudes around this subject is what I would like to portray in my set of images. This is something I believe in and am interested in as I work with advertising each day, so it is completely suitable for my personality. Yay now that’s decided it’s time to get researching into it.

  7. 15/11/2013 Week 5 • To start it all the link to the controversial performance which sparked my project theme is below. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E94UetOx7bg • In the lecture this week we viewed a few different photographers works. One that stood out for me was Erwin Olaf. His pictures from the Royal Blood Series 2005, are amazing. I love the bold red against the cream and white backgrounds. The clarity of the pictures and the silky smooth Porcelain skins. These are all elements that I could try and implement in my thematic project shoot. Gestures are also an important feature I need to consider with the use of props.

  8. Erwin Olaf = Inspirationhttp://www.bloodyloud.com/royal-blood-erwin-olaf-photographer/

  9. Magazines – Vogue AustraliaI love this magazine. The adverts certainly say Sex Sells and is a major influence for my shoot.

  10. Magazines – Vogue AustraliaI love this magazine. The adverts certainly say Sex Sells and is a major influence for my shoot.

  11. Magazines – Vogue AustraliaI love this magazine. The adverts certainly say Sex Sells and is a major influence for my shoot.

  12. 6/12/2013 Week 8 • It’s been a few weeks since focusing on my project again and I had another realisation today. I have been doing all this research into the images or gestures I want to capture but I don’t actually have a model! I asked my close friends that lived near by and they instantly declined! Oh no my project seems to be falling apart. Maybe provocative is not the theme to do 

  13. 13/12/2013 Week 9 • Still panicking about my project this week. No photos have been started only ideas in my head from magazine advertisements I have been looking at. • A resolution to my model dilemma happened late this week. Talking to my lovely sister she volunteered to be my model. The only thing is she lives in Sydney and I am in the Gold Coast. However she will be up for a week during Christmas. Our holiday together will involve doing a shoot for a few days 

  14. Back to Researching and Some more inspiring people that Are influencing my theme!Lady Gaga = Weird but Confident • Lady Gaga’s song “Do What You Want” (featuring R. Kelly) I think would be a good song to play during the shoot to get the model into the groove of things! • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3jzMyYgPQs • Image from: http://www.digitalspy.com.au/showbiz/i435466-8/lady-gagas-maddest-moments-so-far-lady-gaga-vogue-hommes-japan.html

  15. Some more inspiring people that Are influencing my theme!Marilyn Monroe= Major sex symbol • Love all images of Marilyn. There are so many photos when you do a search in Google Images on her. A couple I love are from photographer Andre De Dienes (1949) from the below link. • http://www.vintag.es/2013/06/beautiful-photographs-of-marilyn-monroe.html

  16. Some more inspiring people that Are influencing my theme!Marilyn Monroe= Major sex symbol

  17. 20/12/2013 Week 10 • My model arrives in 3 days. Today it was discussing clothing or lack of that she needed to bring. All the adverts I had been looking at I had sent her and instruction was to bring bikini’s, nice underwear, and her bubbly confident personality. • I also had arranged this week some back drops. I got paper rolls in white, black red and green. I couldn’t afford the stands, but my dear handyman husband managed to rustle up a stand for me out of ladders and broom sticks taped together. It will do the job. Getting a bit excited that my theme is coming together 

  18. 27/12/2013 Week 11 • It’s shoot time! • Thankfully we have had bright sunny days which is what we need to get the light into our patio. Although in saying this we did have wind which was hard to shoot with as hair was blowing around and it also made our make shift back drop blow down once, whoops! Thankfully no one was injured. • All up 1st day of shoot went well. Time to download the pictures.

  19. 27/12/2013 Week 11 • Oh no! my images don’t look like they do on the camera. On the big screen they look so much darker and under exposed  • In addition inequalities are coming out for my model. She had a spray tan done before the shoot and my camera is picking up all the patchiness of the tan. • Opposite is an example of a disgraceful picture. I don’t have additional light sources so I will need to relook at my camera settings and re shoot some shots tomorrow.

  20. 27/12/2013 Week 11 • The second shoot went a little better than the first, although after downloading the images some are still under exposed. They are by far not perfect and with lots of experimenting with settings I still haven’t mastered the camera. Maybe I shouldn’t of relied on the cameras light meter and purchased a light meter to experiment with. I wish I had more lighting or direct lighting. Maybe I should have spent money and hired a studio. All these ‘maybe I should have’, but in reality unfortunately there’s no time or truthfully money to do these what if’s. So with 178 images to go through I am sure with Photoshop I can get at least 10-12 images to be decent to submit! • On a positive I am happy with the ideas and compositions that came together. From the research I did and my lovely model also provided her input into gestures, I think I have captured what I was planning to portray 

  21. 03/01/2014 Week 12 • Happy New Year. My New Year has been all about Photoshop. Tutorials and editing, editing and editing  • I have watched numerous tutorials on Photoshop to help me edit these images. In particular focus has been on, enhancing eyes, creating silky smooth skin, colour balance, spot colour, black and whites. All the links to the tutorials I have watched are next 

  22. 03/01/2014 Week 12Photoshop tutorials I watched • http://www.photoshopessentials.com/basics/selections/color-range/ • http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/photoshop-photo-effects-part-iii/ • http://www.creativebloq.com/computer-arts/video-tutorial-control-tonality-photoshops-black-white-filter-12118370 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmfSKYQKk4o • http://www.webdesign.org/photoshop/photoshop-cs6-tutorials/how-to-create-a-porcelain-skin-effect-in-adobe-photshop-cs6.21908.html • http://www.creativebloq.com/tutorial/high-pass-skin-smoothing-photoshop-812591 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijwV3XunkMw

  23. 10/01/2014 Week 13 • Editing, Editing, Editing. • My work is now coming together. I have learnt a lesson! I have noticed that when using coloured back drops the model picks up the colour of the back drop in the skin, obviously from light reflection. This was evident when I looked at the images with the green and red back drops – example opposite, notice green in the skin around the belly. • Examples of my work are about to follow, with the likes and dislikes. Notice green tinge reflection around mid section

  24. Images that Didn’t make the cut! • As much as I love Marilyn Monroe, my take of her photo just did nothing to compare. So it was left out of selection.

  25. Images that Didn’t make the cut! • So this was a bit of an experiment. Lets just say, water and paper do not go well together, light fading so using flash does nothing and well, what’s sexy about a blue bucket…nothing. The idea was there, I just have not yet mastered the technique and maybe needed to consider the props a bit more. Maybe a champagne bottle would have been nicer.

  26. Images that Didn’t make the cut! • Love the eyes in this shot, but I wanted to make it about the bright red lips. So the focus is on the wrong spot and sorry sis but you just don’t have the lips that pucker well, so this didn’t make the cut.

  27. Progress of imageFrom Inception to finish • My idea with this shot was to have the sign in focus and the rest of the body really out of focus. However with many photos taken it just wasn’t coming out the way I imagined it to be. So I re-evaluated the shot and by the end came out with the images on the next screen.

  28. Progress of imageFrom Inception to finish

  29. Progress of imageFrom Inception to finish So many new skills in Photoshop have been learnt from this project.

  30. 19/01/2014 The END • It’s been such a great course and learning experience that was extremely fun. Whilst I review my final 10 images, ready to submit, I know they are not the professional quality like all my research images. I wish I was as talented as that and I have hope that with more practice I will improve. However, given my limited resources, no studio or lighting, I am proud of what I am submitting. They portray the gestures I intended to take and I have moved beyond my expectations with my Photoshop skills. • I hope that you have enjoyed the images and this project.

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