Thursday, 3 January 2013

Water Droplet Decoration


These are my favourite images. These really show how sharp and focused on detail the camera is capable of. 

Gold Snowflake Decoration


I  put these two images together for comparison. I studied the differences of depth of field in each image. I'll be using this technique with a lot of my future images.

New Camera Tests

I had a new DSLR camera for Christmas, a Canon EOS 550D, so my next few images are simply tests to see how I can work with it.
 This was the first image I had taken, on an outdoor setting and with no flash. I have to admit, I was extremely impressed with the amount of detail captured.

Wednesday, 21 November 2012

Experimenting




 As part of my photography project, we have to make greetings cards using only natural materials. Our tutor told us we could make our own natural glitter using pure maple syrup and water. I gathered some leaves from college earlier, collecting the most vibrant yellow ones I could find, and after cleaning them up a little, I've sprayed them with the mixture. I'll be leaving them over night and see how they go work out tomorrow. Fingers crossed!

Wednesday, 7 November 2012

Life Drawing

Quick drawing with pencil of top of the skeletons torso. 10 minute drawing. Not as pleased with this as others, I think I've made it more illustrative than life drawing. It looks more like a cartoon. With more time I could define the shadowing and close in on smaller details.

Life Drawing

An Ox's heart, drawn with charcoal. Not as detailed as I'd hoped it would be, as it was a warm day and the smell of the heart was getting too much so had to be done as soon as the class could draw it.

Life Drawing

Part of the pelvic and femur bone. Drawn with charcoal, primary research from a skeleton based on the works of Da Vinci. I was very pleased with this, as charcoal is one of my stronger techniques when drawing with light and dark.