Assignment 3 - Umberto Verdoliva Street Photographer

All of Umberto Verdoliva’s work is in black and white and I love black and white photographs because I think they look really stylish and classy. They look sophisticated. Umberto Verdoliva uses a lot of shadows in his work to create unusual images and shapes.

Umberto tends to photograph unusual objects and a lot of close up photographs to really try to trick the mind of his audience. Each photo is so creative and imaginative, you can see that a lot of thought has gone into creating each photo.

Verdoliva seems to like using layers in some of his photos and semi-transparent images to create a really unique effect. I think this is really creative and it looks great. Also, he tends to make quite a lot of his work, blurred in some parts, to bring focus to the important focal points of the photograph.

I chose to look at Umberto Verdoliva because of a lot of different reasons, one being his use of black and white. I also love the way he uses shadows in his photgraphs to create different shapes and patterns, I think he is very imaginative.

I love the way Umberto Verdoliva is so random with his work, he photographs really simple everyday objects but in a really interesting way using shadows and blurred and softened effects. On the other hand, he creates really unique and unusual layered image photographs and puts lots of different photographs on top of one another but makes them slightly transparent so that you have lots and lots going on in the one photo that is made up of all the different other photos. 

Assignment Two - White Balance

These photographs show how different a change to the white balance makes a photo look. This photgraph was taken on the 'Florescent' white balance setting and makes the photo look orangey in colour and gives it a warm feel to it. This setting doesn't give as clear an image as some of the other white balance settings, for example, Cloudy. It seems more blurred and faded together than the photograph below. The focal point in this image would be the diamond in the circle in the middle.

This photograph was taken on the 'Cloudy' white balance setting and gives a clearer image. It is more of the right colour compared to the other one and more realistic colour wise. The focal point of this picture is again the diamond in the middle circle.

Assignment Two - Hard and Soft Light

 This photo really demonstrates hard light and you can see the dark shadows really clear behind the object. I feel the main focal point of this photograph is Joe's smile. You are then drawn to the huge shadow behind him, it it like Joe is looking out of the corner of his eye at the shadow, It is a really interesting photograph that demonstrates the uses of lights and shadows and the hard light within this photograph.

This photo really demonstrates soft light, there are no shadows to be seen behind the object despite the bright light being shined at him. The object in the photo, Joe, is really clear and detailed. It also looks really sharp which makes him stand out more. I think you are automatically drawn into Joes eyes in this picture, they are the main focal point. Whereas in the other photograph you are drawn into his smile.

Assignment Two - Portrait Photography

This photorgaph is a really close up, face, head and shoulders portrait shot. I love this photo because of the smile on her face and the little tilt to her head really makes the photo stand out more. I edited the photograph and changed the colours. I brought the saturation right down and took the temperature up a little to create this warm, soft image. You are automatically drawn into her eyes in this photograph, they are the main focal point. You are also drawn to her beautiful smile next, i feel this is the second strongest focal point.

This photograph is also quite an close up photo but is a little different from the first. It is not central like the one above, and the main focal point in this photo is right in the bottom left corner. it is the eyes and the glasses again but they are not situated right in the middle drawing you into the photo, they are in the corner. The eyes and the head are looking up, like they are looking up right into the corner of the photo. This is really different and makes the photo look really interesting. I edited the photo a little to make it a little sharper and make the shadows around the face darker to make the face stand out more. I think the photo is really eye catching and does stand out.

Assignment Two - Rule of Thirds

This photograph is a really good example of Rule of Thirds as it has a huge, thick pole just to the right of the centre which would be almost on the line of the 'noughts and crosses'. When you have objects that fall in the points where the lines cross on a noughts and crosses board you are automatically drawn to those places because they are the main focal points. They are the places your eyes are drawn to first. The actual lines themselves are the second strongest focal point, your eyes are drawn to them second. The South Downs College sign intervenes with the pole, round about the place where the lines would cross over on a noughts and crosses board. So that is the strongest focal point in the picture and is most definitely the place you are first drawn to. 

This photograph is also a really good example of Rule of Thirds. It is really detailed and really eye catching. It is an interesting photo and one of my favourites. It feels really soft and this is what i love, you are drawn to the cream flower in the middle because it is round about the point where the lines would meet on a noughts and crosses board. This is the main focal point on the photograph and everything else just seems to fall around that. 

Assignment Two - Macro Shots

Both of these macro shots are really bright and colourful and eyecatching. They both really stand out and there is a lot of close up detail in each of them. You can even see little marks on the berries and the petals. However these two images are slightly different, i feel the flower photo stands out a little more than the berry one purely because there is less going on in the background of the flower one, which means the flowers stand out more because there is not really anything to look at behind them. 

Assignment Two - Experimenting with Photo Editing

This photo is really vibrant and stands out really clear. The red and the green are really colourful and are eye catching together.  I used many different effects on this photo to get it so colourful and vibrant, for example i used colour selector to really bring out the green and the red. 

This photograph is really simple yet eye catching. I turned this photo into sepia and added some shadow and changed the contrast to make it more appealing to the eye. I tried to bring out the tree more against the sky background to make the image more bold and interesting and stand out more.

This photo i have made really colourful and vibrant through adjusting the colour and contrast in photoshop. The colours are really bright and really stand out. They are the same sort of colours as my first photograph yet they they are not as full and bold, the colours in this photograph are more scattered and look more pixelized. This photo captures a lot of detail in the mud and the stones and all the different greenery, its a really interesting and unusual photo. 

This photgraph is really up close and shows a lot of detail, i have barely edited this photograph because it was a really good photo in itself. I just emphasized the green a little in the eyes to make them stand out more. The really long eyelashes really makes the photo stand out and viewers are really drawn into the pupil in the middle of the eye. Unlike the other photos, this photo was more of a portrait photograph and was really zoomed and up close. It showed a lot of detail without being edited a lot.