third photoshoot - still life

This photoshoot was an idea that I had which was to bring nature from outside, inside to take pictures in a still life style. I had originally planned to do these in the studio but I thought that the lighting would have been to bright so I just did it using natural light instead.

Quite a lot of the pictures didn't turn out right, some of them are overexposed and blurry, this is because I needed a tripod to do this. I mainly used natural light by placing it near the window but for some of them I did use light from inside and I decided that natural light looks best for this.

To get the backgrounds for these images, I put some paper down. For some of them I used white paper because I wanted the images to look clean and neat but then I decided to use black paper for the rest because I wanted the daisies to stand out better because they have white petals and with a black background they contrast better.

Original

Edit

I edited this one because I wanted the background look really bright as if it was taken with bright lighting which makes the subject appear more attractive. To edit this, I had to select around the flower with the magnetic lasso tool and inverse it so I could change the brightness of the background using levels do it wouldn't affect the subject.

This is an example of why I needed a tripod, the picture is blurry because my hands weren't still enough to capture an image with such prescision. Also, sometimes the shutter speed would go slow because of how low the lighting was.

Although, I like how the picture is framed in the centre.

 I like this photo because i used depth of feild. The angle of this photo looks nice as well because it gives the dasies dimention rather than just a flat above veiw.