Following up from my previous shoot, in which I placed glow sticks in bottles of water. I struggled in what I could do next as the shoot did not go as much to planned. However, when looking at some of my photographers in more detail in my research log. I figured that I could put different things into water that are not solid like glow sticks are. I then came up with the idea of putting food colouring into water and watching it dissolve. When going into the studio, I set up my camera on a tripod and put some paper on the table. This enabled me to draw a ring around the wine glass on the paper so it was in the same place for each photo. Then when taking pictures of the glass, to ensure it was all in the right place I found that the outline of the glass was not strong enough. Therefore, either side of the glass but out of the frame I put a piece of black card which means that the sides and glass stands out. This made the glass stand out a lot more in comparison to the other images which previously did not make the glass stand out. When I poured the water into the glass, I continuously pressed the shutter to take some pictures of the glass filling up. When looking at these pictures in photoshop I realised that I actually prefer these images to a lot of the others and I wish I had taken more.
I like the above image due to its simplicity in the photo. Another mistake I made during the shoot was not including the bottom of the glass. The reason I couldn't do this was because I then would have had to included the table and paper that it was stood on, and I would have had to zoom out. This would have meant that I would have included a lot of the set that I had created while taking the photographs. One of the downsides of this meant that I could not make a multiple imagery out of the photos as the images underneath each other do not look right. Instead, I made a triptych of the photographs that were the best from the shoot. This made them stand out more and as there were none underneath the bottoms did not stand out as much.
Progression
The next shoot I will be doing involves me going to London. In London I will be looking and taking pictures of the range of different lights that are around me. I will also be looking at the different colours, and what I want to do to show the different lights on the road is get streaks from the busy traffic to display how busy London is, even at night.
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