Work Diary- Personal shoot 4

This photograph was taken for my fourth personal shoot and the theme of this shoot was close ups of the facial feature eyes. This photograph was taken as a self portrait and was set up to have the exact focus and zoom needed so that I could take each photograph with a flow without having to change any settings for each photograph. This photograph was taken extremely close up and the reason I'm looking upwards in this photograph is so that my eye lashes look extended and my pupil is shown much bolder and clearer. To edit this photograph I firstly cropped the unwanted space and adjusted the curves and levels. I then changed the layer to black and white and using the eraser tool I rubbed out the effect in my pupil. This I feel is very affective as the drawn attention is on the colour in my eye. Furthermore by using close up photography of my eye has allows all the fine details to be shown which makes this photograph stunning to view.

This photograph is showing fine art as its very pleasing to look at because of its prettify features. This photograph of my eye was taken at a more diagonal angle which allows some of my skin and strands of hair to be in the photograph. The editing side of this photograph was very simple as all I did was adjust the levels and curves and vibrancy of the photograph. This makes this photograph stand out and look very eye catching as it grabs the viewers attention immediately through the detail shown. In addition because of the close up technique being used it allows the delicate and glossy texture to been shown much clear and the features of the eyes to be shown to be very intriguing to look at.

If I would go back and add to this shoot I would take more closer photographs focusing on different parts of the eyes and then presenting them in a multiple imagery grid to show a more creative skill in my shoot.

This shoot was influenced by the planning that I had written in the work diary prior to this shoot. This is because I had written that I should capture a shoot on human or animal features to show how my close up photographs link to fine art. This is because of the variety of photographs that can be categorized as fine art photography is immense that it is a must that I make sure my work is contrasting. These photographs that I took for the human eye shoot are very soft and the glossy texture and intriguing detail of the human eye are highlighted very well. Therefore to develop these photographs I could involve for example food to add vibrant colors to the human features.