Sam Taylor-Wood is a famous film maker, photographer and visual artist, her most famous work is a film called 'Nowhere Boy' which was extremely successful. Sam Taylor-Wood's brilliant photography is so focused on the subject that everything around the picture is unnoticed. She experiments a lot with her photograph to create a powerful, compelling and commanding image which to want to develop on to express that time is a constantly moving concept and that our lives are forever moving on in time and space.
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I started by playing around with the settings on the camera, ISO, shutter speed, aperture, exposure, flash etc. All the shots which were over exposure or completely black I put into a folder. The I viewed each one comparing it with the original. I thought about the focus, light, shadow, colour and positioning. The ones which ticked all the boxes were renamed close, close 2 etc. Then I edited all of the renamed photographs, changing the brightness, contrast, highlight, warmth, tint, saturation and sharpening, as well as cropping them to the 6 x 8 ratio and framing them in the same position as the original.
So for this photograph I had to take three different photographs. I set up the lighting and fruit and took the first picture while the fruit was fresh, then after a couple of days I took the same shot again, I left my tripod where to took the picture in exactly the same position with the fruit in exactly the same place. For the last short I was spare of time so I had to adapt, I made a powder from some dark green chalk and put it on the fruit, this was successful and looks realistic. I choose the three pictures based on more than just colouring, lighting and positioning, I also had to make sure that the pictures matched, so I had to sometimes change the setting on my camera to make sure the brightness was the same. the three that I choose were in my opinions the most similar to the original and matched each other. I edited the pictures together in Photoshop and changed the brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, lightness individually to make then as similar to each other and the original. Then I realised that the photograph was a bit to bright so I just changed the brightness, contrast and lightness a bit more and then chose 'EDIT 2'.
For this picture I used two different lens. I used a 18-55mm lens and a 55-300mm lens, I tried using both because I wanted to change the vocal length, with the 18-55mm lens some of the apple was in focus while other parts were blurred and out of focus. So I used a 55-300mm lens, this put the entire apple in focus once I had walked far enough away from the apple. The only problem I have faced only came apparent when I viewed the photographs on the computer, my 55-300mm lens had a lens hood on it and has given the pictures a vignette effect which I don't want. I had the choice between three picture which were similar to the original in that they all were in focus, the apple was centred and lighting was right. After editing all three to be as bright as the original. I chose 'close' because I thought that the amount of white background was the closest and size and shape of the apple is right as well as the brightness.The two other pictures ('close2' and 'close3') were ruined when I brought the brightness up, so I had to bring it down a little so then it wasn't as similar as the original as 'close' which was able to go as bright as the original.