Saturday, 6 December 2014

Third shoot - Contact sheet and best edits


This is my third shoot, It has been influenced by Matt Molloy who uses time lapses and then stacks them, to create a time stack which brings out all the colours and motion on the image.
In Preparation to this I had to look up the times for the sun rise and sun set this was at 7:30 and 16:00 retrospectively at this time of year. Further more I required the weather to not be too cloudy with wind to show motion. This enabled me to go to the location at the correct times to get the picture I wanted.
My first attempt at using this was my pictures of the trees, my thoughts behind it was that the motion of the trees in the wind. This didn't work as well due to how the tree moves around in a circle so the motion just makes the tree looks like a blurry tree. So I decided to focus on the sky more, with the clouds. Matt Molloy even says that trees are hard to get right in his picture and tends to avoid them as a main feature in his pictures.
The top 3 rows are pictures from the shoot and the bottom row are the finished edits. I used time stacking in photoshop and blending them to lighten. 
This worked with the picture 16. As you can see the stacking has produced a tail that the clouds move along. It was taken with a remote while a lot of the other were not so I had some problems with camera shakes due to the lack of a remote. This was achieved in post-production in photoshop by layering about 30 pictures and blending them to lighten, Another point is that the trees worked in this one more as there was little wind on the ground. The trees are also black due to the blending to lighten, as the trees are dark and get made darker.
Picture 13 is one of my best edits where I took a time stack of the sun setting. This would have been a better image if there were less clouds but there were some colours that managed to get through and gave the brush like effect of motion. Although I still need to include something other than the sky in my pictures, such as an object or a tree but, trees move in the 
wind,  

I feel that I did not manage this shoot as well as I was planing to, I will need to go back and review how Molloy does his work, and will have to choose better days to go out and take pictures.
For my next shoot I will try to develop my composition and attempt to get the colours and the motion on the sky into one shot. This will mean I will have to monitor the weather to get the best day to take the picture. Further more I will use a remote to control the movement of the lens or a timer so I can create a constant stream of pictures.


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