Reflection - Image bank

 This image shows a horizontal reflection. It is a reflection of two cyclists, and also reflects the background of the sky and the clouds.

 This is a horizontal reflection too. The background doesn't reflect this tie; only the foreground with the woman laying down is reflected.

 In this image, the window and the reflected object are not touching. It is reflected horizontally, however the reflection is not man made like the others.

This is a slightly different reflection. Though it's reflected horizontally, the reflection is in the middle of the photo, and doesn't take up the bottom half of the image.

This is a very different reflection , as it is not across a straight line, and it is reflected vertically rather than horizontally

Shape - Work Diary

For shape, I did two photoshoots: one in the studio, one candid. For my candid shoot I mainly took images of shapes I found around the town, most of which where litter and other objects that had been thrown on the floor. Then, for my studio shoot, I got ones of my badges, which has a star shape on the front, and put a spotlight on it, then took images of it from different angles.

This is my favourite photo from my candid shoot. It shows a sign, which is a sort of rectangular shape with slightly rounded edges. I think the rounded edges add more interest to the rectangular shape and the fact I took the image at a diagonal angle gives the photo a dramatic quality, almost as if it rapidly zooming into the sign.

This is my least favourite photo from my candid shoot. I felt like it was better at showing pattern than shape. Although there was shape there, I prefer shape pictures to be a single shape on a mostly plain background, so that your attention is drawn to that shape. I think this image just doesn't draw your eye to the shape enough.

This is my favourite photo from my studio shoot. It shows both a circle and a star shape within a circle. It also casts an oval shaped shadow. I liked the object used, as i felt it was an object you would notice, and I also like the way it is lit so that the front of the badge is bright and clear, and a large shadow is cast.

This is my least favourite photo from my studio shoot. Although it does show shape, specifically a circle with a circle inside of it, I feel that the object used was very uninspiring, partly because it doesn't show any of the other formal elements in an interesting way. Also, the image contains a little bit of the background in the top right while it should have only shown the table, which I find to be an imperfection.

Overall, I think my candid photoshoot went very well because I focussed most of the pictures on a single shape, with a narrow depth of field, so that the background is defocussed, meaning attention is drawn to the shape. However, if I were to do this photoshoot again, I would probably try and get more regular shapes in my images, as the majority of mine were very irregular and complex.

Overall, I think my studio shoot went fairly well. I liked the badge as I felt it created an interesting shape that was not too irregular but not too regular. I also liked how to the light was positioned as it helped make sure the front of the badge, where the star shape was, had light on it. However, if I were to  do this photoshoot in, I would bring in more than one object, and make sure some of them are a bit larger so that I can put several objects together in one photo.

Colour Manipulation

For this picture, I selected everything around the petals of the flower so it would not be effected when i converted the image to black and white. When I converted in the layer options tab, I moved some of the colours sliders down. I moved the greens slider down very low so that the background would appear very desaturated. Once I had converted to black and white, I then selected the flower petals, so that I could manipulate the colours of it. I used the colour balance option under the layer options and changed the sliders so there were high levels of magenta, red and yellow in the flower, meaning the flower looked very saturated.

For this image, I did something very similar. I selected everything around the bin with the quick selection tool, then converted to black and white in layer options. This time, I took the red, blue, green and yellows down to desaturate the background. However, I decided I wanted the bin to stay the same colour, so I didn't saturate the bin more than it already was.

Reflection - Straight Images

Reflection - Contact Sheet

Definition - Reflection

A reflection is a mirror of an image. The mirrored image is identical, only it has been flipped around, so it is the exact opposite of the other image. This creates one perfectly symmetrical image.

Here is an example of a reflection to better explain what reflection is. As you can see, there is a cat standing on a mirror, which is a reflective device. Inside the mirror, you can see the exact same image of the cat as you can see with the actual kitten, however it has been inverted, creating a perfectly symmetrical image. You can also get reflections where you cannot see the original image symmetrical image as it is not touching it.

Here is an example of this. As you can see, there are not two instances of the image like in the photograph above, but only the reflected one, which is an inverted version of the original image. 

Vivian Maier Research

Vivian Maier is a street photographer who mainly takes photos of people's faces in the public.

Here are a few examples of her works. As you can see, her photographs are taken in public, often candid. She observes the things that are going on and takes photos of people she finds interesting. 

In My opinion, these pictures should definitely be considered art. They possess a very artistic value to me, as they show people reacting to each other and to the things around them. I feel that these types of image help capture a moment, which in the eyes of the people who are experiencing it and the people watching it happen, would not be significant or memorable, become memorable and very interesting. I think this is partly because the photographer or other people viewing the image get more time to reflect on the meaning of what is happening, and may be able to imagine background stories for why it is happening.