"Colour Boutique"
Taken: 21st Feb 2010
For this image I wanted to capture all of the different colours and textures of the charms on my Paul's Boutique bag, hense the name Colour Boutique. To capture as much detail as possible on the charms I used a macro lens. The lighting for this image was just natural light which was coming through my window. The part of this image which catches your eye first is the Paul's Boutique label, this is because 1. It is on the bottom right intersection points, which is the first thing which you look at, and 2. because of the text. When I edited this image in photoshop the only part which I changed was the contrast so that text stood out a little more than the rest of the charms in the image. I also added a watermark to it, which I am now also going to do to all of my images so that if anyone uses my image it will still have my watermark on it.
" The Perfect Petal"
Taken: 21st Feb 2010
This image is my favourite image from the macro shoot, I really like how the vivid colour of the petals stands out from the dark green background. When taking this image I wanted the detail of the inside petals to stay as sharp as possible, whilst the rest of the image was blurred. To achieve this I used a macro lens and positioned the camera about 1-2cm away from the flower. The only lighting used to light this image was the sun, I took this image later in the afternoon as the sun wasn't too harsh and to stop it from washing out the colours in the photo. This image works well as you are drawn straight into the middle of the flower which is the sharpest part of the image. When I edited this image in photoshop the only thing which I change was the contrast slightly and then the saturation to make the flower more vivid and to come out of the background more.
"Modern Control"
Taken: 24th Feb 2010
When I took this image I was actually sat at the computer uploading the other macro images. I decided to experiment with my macro lens and take a few more images of things around my computer space. I think that this image works well as the leading lines, created by the shape of the Ctrl key, leads your eyes up to the Ctrl written on the key. The colours in this image also work well together as there are only greys and black in this image. When I had the image in photoshop I adjusted the contrast slightly as in the original image all of the greys were almost the same shade which meant the image had almost no depth to it and it didn't make such a visually appealing image.
When taking this set of images I wanted to capture the many different colours and textures of objects using macro. As macro is such a passion of mine I really enjoyed the photoshoot and was very pleased with the range of results which I got from this shoot.
