First shoot contact sheet and best edits

The shots show my first attempt at the use of fill flash and a wide angle lens. I was attempting to create a lit up picture with the flash and a clear blue sky, which is a technique that Heather Buckley used. And combine it with a wide angle to add distortions around the edge of the picture.

The image was taken with a fast shutter speed (1/25) and a large aperture, F25 to get a big depth of field. The little amount of light that the picture could take in would be compensated with the external flash that I attached to the camera. The flash would also remove some of the shadows that were made by the sun.

In Hindsight I could have chosen a sunnier location from the forest, but at the time I thought it would introduce a variety of light and shading to experiment with fill flash. The location should have had less tree coverage. In the forest there were clearings that provided with a sky surrounded by trees, which is demonstrated in a few of the pictures above. The green of the forest became lighter when fill flash was use. In some cases the flash has made it look like the time of day is night. This was due to me experimenting with the aperture and the shutter speed and getting it not quite right.

I intended to use the view point of a camera as my theme, using the fill flash technique I was able to capture a view only the camera can see, which is what I intended to achieve when I first started.

 This shot was taken with a wide angle lenses and a flash, while trying to use the technique fill flash. I chose to take a picture with the sky in, due to how the fill flash can make they sky look more blue than normal. The trees are slightly lit up from the flash. This gave a wide range of green colours in the trees.
The picture was taken with a aperture of f/25 and a shutter speed of 1/25. This picture was one of may where i did not get the flash correct so the the picture came out under exposed.

In photoshop I used the Levels of the colours which brightened up the colours and made them more distinct and brighter. I changed all the levels to the arrows lined up with the spikes of colours.

I really like how the edges of the picture is bent due to the wide angle lens but I don't like how there is no subject to my picture. That there isn't one single focus point. 

The second picture is of a drain pipe in the sky, this was not taken with a wide angle lens but a flash was used to lighten up the wall and inside the drain. This was taken on the way out of the forest. It is one of my better shots demonstrating fill flash and it shows how fill flash can be used to lighten up a picture.
The picture was taken with an aperture of f/10 and shutter speed of 1/100 which was due to the in built flash on the camera.
This picture was more successful than the other in its use of fill flash and having a subject (the drain). Although it is not as interesting as the first picture.






For my next shoot I will change location to go more open location, much like the picture of the drain pipe with was a picture I took on the way out of the forest. I think that this will improve my experimenting of fill flash .I will need to improve on how i compose the shot and use fill flash in a more useful way to lighten up the picture.