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| David Lloyd White (Leucistic) Sparrow August 2008 |
My influence for shoot 3 is David Lloyd, he's a Wildlife Photographer, one thing I like about his photography is the way he uses depth of field to make the animals he is taking pictures of stand out. I tried to recreate his work by taking pictures of birds, and trying to get a soft blur in the background.
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Image 1 is good, but I feel that its 'average' because the black bird is positioned in the middle, the photograph would of been more interesting if i'd used the rule of thirds, but its a good first time photograph for my Wildlife shoot.
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Image 2 is one of my favorite photos from this shoot, it relates to my artists, David Lloyd, as I have captured a bird in motion, I like the detail in this photograph, with the seed in the birds beak, i'm really pleased with how the background has turned out in this photo, its very similar to those in David Lloyd's photos, as Lloyd uses a short depth of field in his work, which make section of the image look clear, and this is what the viewers eyes are drawn to first. Similarly to David Lloyds work, I photographed a Sparrow for this picture.
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For image 3 I decided that I would change the location of the my photos, I had done a lot of photos in my garden, and fancied something more challenging, so I set out to find different types of birds and capture them naturally, without tempting them with bird seed. This image was quite hard to take, and took a lot of practice, as it was hard to focus the image and whilst following the birds, i had to set the cameras shutter speed to 1/4000, as to not get the flying bird or the waves blurred, luckily it was a bright sunny day, so this was not a problem, you can see some of the less successful photos from this at the bottom of this post.
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At first I didn't think this photograph was good because the its hard to see the seagull as it was taken quite early in the morning, with the sun behind it, but I actually like the way the sun gives a warm glow around its wings, making the sea gull look dramatic and powerful.
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As you can see photographs 5 & 6 are of the same bird, I uploaded both of these images to show how much difference using the rule of thirds can make, photo 5 shows the bird in the centre of the image, this makes the photo look 'average', compared to photo 6. The bird is one third of the way across the photo, the reason I have took it so the subject is to the left of the photo is because the subjects is facing towards the right.
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Although in this picture the bird is in focus, its hard to see as its the same colours as the background. I feel like I could also of made this image more interesting by zooming in further, and/or by using the rule of thirds. I may be able to improve this photograph if I crop it.
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Editing into Black and White - In the style of David Lloyds Great Migration Safari Photography.jpg) |
| Black and White Edit |
Here I have edited photograph 4 into black and white in the style of David Lloyds 'Fighting Lions', I was hoping that the image would become even more dramatic in Black and White, however, I believe that the original colour photo is more powerful, when editing, I lost the warm glow around the wing, which was what originally made the bird seem powerful, the colour of the background in the Black and White is a very dull grey, and I think the blue background in the original works well with the warm white glow around its wings.
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| Original Colour Photograph |
Experiments
The experimentations below are me getting use to the 75-300mm lens, as you can see, some of the images are quite dark, this is because I was taking these early in the morning, and so it wasn't very bright, and I was taking these with a fast shutter speed.
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| Experiment 1 |
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| Experiment 2 |
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| Experiment 3 |
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| Experiment 4 |
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