Work Diary- 1st Shoot

 During this lesson I did a studio shoot for my personal project of Close Ups. I took a variety of different pictures of the lips and mouth, close up in different positions. I used glitter on the lips because I was influenced by another picture that I found and really liked the effect it created. If I was to do this lesson again I would have the camera on manual focus rather than auto focus because it would allow me to get even closer images. 

This image is one of my favourite images. I like the contrast between the colour of the lips and the pinky/red colour of the tung. Due to the fact that the image is very close you can see the detail on the tung and it makes you imagine the texture of it. The composition of the image includes the smile lines which highlights the end of the mouth and the end of the photo. When editing the photo I used levels and curves. If I was to take this image again I would have the camera on a tripod because I had to adjust many of my images because the mouth wasn't straight due to having a hand held camera.

For this image I used 9 separate pictures that I took of the mouth, all in different ways. I then put them together to make one image of multiple imagery. I used face forward images for the three centre images and then ones facing the right for the left side and ones facing the left for the right side. When making my multiple imagery I didn't leave a space between the images because I preferred it better without. If I was to make this multiple imagery again I wouldn't use the two bottom corner images as I feel it would look better with images with the teeth showing. 



My inspiration behind this shoot came from a picture that I found on the internet. As a class we had already done a shoot for the technique multiple imagery and during the image bank process I came across a multiple imagery piece of lips and really liked the close up images and the use of glitter. 

As a result of this shoot I am going to incorporate more close up human features in future shoots as I like the detail you get to see as a result of the images being close up and I like the natural feel it creates when looking at the images. On the other hand as well as photographing humans features I would also like to experiment with insects and bugs therefore for my next shoot I am going to photograph insects features. 

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