Close Up and Wide Angle Work Diary

With Close Up we had to zoom in and take a picture of something specific. I feel like my most successful pictures were of flowers, and they were all from different angles. I like the way that with the flowers colours, all the other colours blur around, making the flower in focus seem more significant and like an individual as opposed to like every other. With my close up pictures I decided to keep the editing quite natural as I was shooting natural things, I didnt want to use any black and white filters on photoshop as I felt the flower alone and the use of the close up technique was beautiful enough. I think the only editing I did was of the picture of the pink flower in which I enhanced the colour to make it stand out more, and I prefer the edited version. I found close up very easy to do and I like doing it with natural objects, I dont think I will particularly use this technique within my project however.

With wide angle your camera had to be zoomed out and get closer to the object, the pictures I did of wide angle mostly exaggerated length, for example I took a picture of a lamp post going up right on the pole, at the bottom all you can see is the pole. In these pictures I edited them as I felt the wide angle pictures I took seemed quite lonely as it was just one single solitary thing. I enjoyed shooting wide angle as I felt the technique alone was able to give my picture a mood which I liked as it created a story to my pictures. I like wide angle photographs and I will definitely use this technique within my project as I feel it has the ability to exaggerate something, which the media does, so I will use it in my project of media make up.

Wide Angle

Wide Angle Image Bank

In this image the person in the plane is very close up and this creates an exaggerated perspective for the background as the clouds seem smaller than the person which we know as an audience isn't true however it becomes aesthetically pleasing. What I like about this image is that there seems to be no end to the picture because the clouds seem to continue, I also like the curve as to me it represents the earth.

I like this image as the polls on the bridge seem bigger than the cliff in the background and the lines of the bridge seem very continuos and as the depth from the length increases, everything seems to becoming smaller, this exaggerates the depth within the image. I like how deep this picture actually goes as like the picture above it seems like there is no end as if you look in right hand corner, everything seems to continue very small in a distance.

I love the landscape in this image and I think the lines aide exaggerate the perspective of the background and you can see the background becoming smaller and smaller, I really like this effect. The clouds stay in alignment with the lines and continue right down with the depth. I think this picture is really beautiful and it is a picture I would put under the topic of personal reflection as it is a picture you look at and feel at peace.

In this picture the dogs nose is very big and right at the front of the image, this makes the rest of the dog seem very far away, it even makes his eyes look significantly bigger. I like how you can see the whiskers which people don't usually associate with a dog so it is interesting to see, its like the dog is more detailed in the more focused parts, for example, you can see like shapes like snake skin on the dogs nose. I love the use of wide angle in this picture as it makes you see things you may not have before.

I absolutely love the use of wide angle when shooting landscape, it provides a much more distant view into the photograph and produces and infinite vibe to the picture which I really like. I also like the use of wide angle in landscape pictures such as this as I feel it is like a point of view picture, I can see exactly what the photographer saw. I really like this picture, I love the colors and how subtle the picture is, but yet still so beautiful.

I like this picture as the wide angle brings height to the picture, the way the Eiffel tower goes in after each base hits the corner of the photo makes it seem very high (even though we already know it is). This picture makes it feel as if you are really standing looking up at the Eiffel tower. I like how you can see the top of the tower as it seems to pin point the sky and almost cause a reaction of clouds around it. This picture is very interesting to look at.