Edit/Back Up

The Editing and Back Up process is very important to me since for photographers our images are everything if we lost them we could lose a whole lot especially if its for a particular client who is paying you lots. This is one of the main reasons I have gotten into the habit of backing up my work regularly on 3 different drives one being on my desktop computer and the other two being on external hard drives.

I have been through many different hard drives but for me the best I have seen so far has to be G-Technology they are quite pricey but definitely worth the buy. Another vital importance when backing up is the speed in which you can back up some photographers can wait hours for there pictures to load I can not imagine how long videographers and film makers must wait for their videos to back up this is what makes G Drives worth the buy since the speed these drives download at are much faster than your standard hard drives. Below I have included a product video for you to see. They have much larger and faster drives depending on what you would like from small drives to huge servers these can be found at http://www.g-technology.com/

Photoshop & Lightroom

Adobe Photoshop & Adobe Lightroom are the two main programs which I use to edit or view images these programs allow me to choose my favourite images such as flagging the best images within Lightroom which saves me an enourmous amount of time rather than going through images one by one then losing the image you chose and having to go through them again.

Photoshop allows me to change mistakes I may have made whilst taking pictures small things such as brightness and contrast can also be changed in Photoshop you could completely manipulate the image to look outstanding but I have never been the type to over use Photoshop since I see this as cheating. All in all I could not live without these two particular software programs and I am grateful that I have the ability to use them both.

Penny De Los Santos

Penny De Los Santos is an award winning photographer known for her sensitive photo essays and food, travel, and landscape photography over the years she has been recognized by many big name companies and magazines some of these include: saveur magazine, national geographic, sports illustrated, newsweek, texas monthly and many more.

Penny De Los Santos is my favourite food Photographer, what I find interesting about her work is the way she puts a great deal of thought behind and image before its taken and not only does she do this but while doing so she also takes snapshots of the culture surrounding the food to truly understand it before the final image is taken and to me this is a way of showing that you are trying to understand the story behind the food and where it came from and capturing it within the image itself.

Below are some examples of images both simple and prepped to show you the differences she can create within her work.

Ref: www.pennydelossantos.com

Portrait Object Shoot - Finals

Below you will find the final 5 Images which were taken using studio lights and a backdrop each image was taken in RAW format this is done so that the quality of the image is at its best and since when these particular images are transferred into Photoshop they can be slightly altered if needed. I did not have to change much within the images apart from slightly brightening the images to make them stand out more I was pleased with the outcome of these images since they are all simple but effective in portraying a portrait of someone holding an object.

Portrait - Object Shoot - Contact Sheet

One of my recent photography shoots included a portrait of an object shoot. Within this shoot the people being photographed were told if they had a few minutes to save a particular object what they would choose so each person brought in there object whilst holding it and being photographed with it. The objects included a diary, necklace, pebbles and many more. Below is an example of the contact sheet of some of the images from the shoot I will be including the final images in another post for you to see.

Photoshoot & Equipment

Since I commute to university I found it would be much easier and useful for me to gather my own equipment over the years. Most of the photography work I do is from home in a small studio area which can be put away when not needed this is very useful for me since I can work not only in the comfort of my home but everything I need can be found here. Some of the equipment used are expensive and some are not expensive at all since photography equipment can become very expensive I had to find another way of using what I need and for this non named branded equipment as well as named branded equipment are both used. I can use bother continuous and flash lighting but I tend to use flash much more as well as natural light.

Flashguns for me tend to be the best on the go lighting while studio flash is best for studio work since each flash has a power of 500 watts which is more than enough for the photography I tend to do.

                                      

                                      

                                      

Screen Printing

Screen Printing was part of one of my projects for this we had to choose an image or various images that related to our field of work in my case (Food Photography) once this was done we needed to have an induction on how to screen print since this was the first time for us in doing so.

Below you will see various images I have found over the internet the images I chose to work with this was put together in Photoshop since each part of the image is different but relate in some way. I chose to look at parts of animals including an animal skull to relate not only to John Bergers - Why we look at animals but also my own work which is Food photography.