Evaluation

For this unit I have photographed Birmingham city at night and in the early morning to create night photographs. I have experimented with various colours and extremes of tonal contrast. this was all for the Emerging Talent award for the Melbourne festival.

My idea hasn't changed at all throughout this unit. I specifically stated to the judges of the Melbourne festival what I was going to photograph. This is because I was improving my own skills at night photography that I wanted to stick with this theme.

For this unit I have used my Nikon D610 with a 50mm f/1.4 and 24-85mm f3.5-4.5 lens'. Since as I was working in low lighting in some cases I had to use long shutter speeds causing me to use a tripod. In some cases I also used a shutter release cable to make sure the camera is as still as possible. I barely used any editing techniques; the only thing I did to the images may have been levels.

The main problem I encountered was the time I went out to shoot. Due to the time of year, sunrise was getting earlier and earlier so I found it difficult to get out the house and into Birmingham early enough so that the sky was completely black excluding any light pollution. To try and overcome this I used energy drinks and I went slept a lot more to put my body clock out of normal times.

Rut Blees Luxemburg is one of the artist researches I have done because she uses lots of light and includes light sources in some of her images which defines some of them and makes it the focus of the image. I have also looked at work from Mara Tyskens for her uses of different colours and use of light to make the colours more distinguishable. She also uses her light sources in her images to make aspects of it stand out.

I am pleased with my final piece however I wish that I had been able to go out and photograph more to give me more to work with. I could also have done rural photo shoots which might have acted differently than that of the light in a city.