Final Images

I have chosen two final images for my Signs of Life assignment. They are both of flowers from a front view, I decided to pick these because they are like the images I chose to research by Jonathan Knowles. I like this first image because of its delicacy.

Edited Images

These are my edited images and the originals. I have used tools such as changing the levels, contrast, brightness, vibrance and saturation to create these looks.

Signs of Life Original Photographs

These are a selected few of the photographs i took on my signs of life photo shoot. Now I will edit these photos in Photoshop but i do not wish to make them look too abstract as I want them to look natural.

Ideas

For this signs of life assignment i have decided to take close ups of flowers, to show the detail, delicacy and strong colour of them. I will then download them on to a computer and edit them in Photoshop by changing the colours to make them stronger/ weeker or more bright and edit the contrast. I do not wish to make them look too abstract because i want to keep the colours similar and make the flowers look natural.

Research: Jonathan Knowles

Jonathan photographs a lot of ordinary items with a patterned background, although i have chosen for this still life assignment to research these two images of flowers. The rose looks like it has been sprayed with a fine nozzled water spray bottle to make all the tiny dropplets on the rose, to make it look like it has been rained on.It has then has been cut out and placed on a pink background. This is a digital, colour photograph. It has been manipulated by making the colours stronger and by changing them slightly because the outside is yellow and the middle is pink, also the dropplets have a bright blue edge to them. This image is very bold and i think it has a strong composition because the rose stands out, but also the middle of the rose is a pink similar to the background which brings it together. The second image is of quite a different style than the rose because this one looks computer generated, and it also has a black background. This flower looks like it has been taken from above with some sort of lighting from below, this makes the flower and the butterfly look luminous and have a 'glow in the dark' quality. I like what looks like the butterfly's path of white wisps of air circling the flower. The butterfly looks as if it is flying away from the flower as if it has flew around a few times and has gotten bored so decided to move on. This photograph definitely has a strong composition with the lime green and bright blue standing out from the black screen. I am definitely inspired by Jonathan's photographsand i really like them all for their colours and simplicity. They make me want to think of ideas like his and go out and take photos using ordinary objects.