tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75112613679485264672024-03-13T06:45:09.707-07:00Brodie Star PhotographyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7511261367948526467.post-571280059255856572012-03-08T13:23:00.001-08:002012-03-08T13:23:57.033-08:00Defying Gravity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Well as my exam question is based on water I have been non stop with the stuff recently! Me and my friend, (and previous model) Naomi were brainstorming our ideas yesterday in our art lesson with my camera, and this is a sneak peak of the outcome. We filled a small clear glass bottle with ordinary tap water and tipped it all out in front a white backdrop. We then waited to see what different shapes we go from it. Water is very unpredictable in the way it moves, especially free flowing water.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This particular photo catches my eye as its sort of sculpture-like. Everything is connected in its distorted fashion. My Speedlight flash gun has really given the water the contrast it needs to stand out from the pale white backdrop. It is safe to say that I am quite pleased with the outcome, but lets hope the examiners think the same... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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I find it very difficult to make droplet photos because of the timing of it, and also getting the focus exactly where it needs to be, the droplet. <br />
My boyfriend has a natural talent at droplet photos, which I am very jealous of... If you would like to see any of them they are shown in his flickr stream. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sandyhombre/<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7511261367948526467.post-86372164229430058872012-02-04T12:45:00.000-08:002012-02-04T13:05:13.851-08:00Girls will be girls.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">These were taken back in mid 2011; my previous model Naomi had a friend who was part of a photography group in tettenhall wood, and I thought I might be cheeky and tag along to take a few snaps of her (and myself, obviously) using their studio lighting. The group did each have to pay money to hire out the room, but you never get anything for free these days! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Anyway, I took these photos when Naomi had gone for a outfit change, and her being a typical girl, she took a while... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I really love the simplicity of the first photo. In black and white it picks out the tones in my hair and shirt. This is the reason I like black and white photos so much; everything has its place in the photo and nothing is more important. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In the second photo, colour is key. My lips and shirt are very bright under the lighting, and my skin tone also looks eye catching. The structure of this photo isn't as good as the first, but its always hard getting proportion right on self portraits.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bs04kudwWpw/Ty2Rgu-KCVI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/JjK4jERu6Z4/s1600/IMG_1550.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bs04kudwWpw/Ty2Rgu-KCVI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/JjK4jERu6Z4/s400/IMG_1550.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7511261367948526467.post-16278704762743682792012-01-16T13:04:00.000-08:002012-01-18T07:19:35.712-08:00Lady in Red<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">These are the photos of when I did a shoot of my beautiful friend Alys! I worked with John Coyle again for this using his studio gear. I used a soft box for the lighting on the first and last photo, which I found very effective because it makes the models skin tone very even and not under or over exposed. Her lovely wavy hair is what I wanted to focus on mainly, but I think the first one would look better if her hair would have picked up more light and stood out from the background... But never mind! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br />
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I don't do aviation photography very often, I probably do it once a year to be exact. But when I do, I really enjoy it! It is obviously so hard to get the timing right on these, because it all happens so fast, and especially when you're not used to it, but you can always be cheeky and tweak it after... I mean, doesn't every photographer?<br />
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Whenever I go to an air show, my favourite thing to photograph is the red arrows. I love their colours and formations in the sky, they never fail to fantasize me. They almost make art in the sky with the patterns they make, so I'm sure you all agree that they're visually brilliant!<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xUn_s5SkdN0/TwTEIozogEI/AAAAAAAAAGs/S8_1qUTCn0I/s1600/naomi+in+red.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xUn_s5SkdN0/TwTEIozogEI/AAAAAAAAAGs/S8_1qUTCn0I/s400/naomi+in+red.jpg" width="266" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7511261367948526467.post-32113120314703085632012-01-02T07:57:00.000-08:002012-01-03T09:42:51.773-08:00n e r d<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here are some photos from when I was the photographer for the 'Dweeb' gig! Sadly they have now gone their separate ways, but their music will always be great. </div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">For this shoot I borrowed someones Canon EOS 7D, and it was the most amazing experience of my life. (yes I'm a bit nerdy, I know). I can't remember what the lens was though. These are a christian band so it was set at my church St. Joseph's.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I couldn't use a flash for this obviously so I was relying on the stage lighting mostly, which proved very difficult. And it also doesn't help when my photoshop dislikes RAW files! But at the end of the night I think I had a nice bunch of photos to show them, and they seemed to be very pleased.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cP37kjktn0c/TwG8bAxBPQI/AAAAAAAAACs/69Te7lz6YAE/s1600/IMG_5857.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cP37kjktn0c/TwG8bAxBPQI/AAAAAAAAACs/69Te7lz6YAE/s400/IMG_5857.jpg" width="266" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7511261367948526467.post-15348682490389513882012-01-02T03:36:00.000-08:002012-01-02T03:39:22.083-08:00Yet another obsession of mine...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">At one time I also had an obsession with droplets, and how brilliantly perfect they look. It is always so hard to get timing right on these, but the pleasant surprise when you look at the screen on your camera and its right is great! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I took this photo just over 2 years ago in my bathroom, and I still can't get over how perfect the droplets are, they look so simple and delicate, and the distorted reflections in them are amazing. I tried to get the composition symmetrical, but as you can see its a little out.... Maybe I shall do this photo again and try! To take this I used a shutter speed of 320 and an aperture of F/3.5 to balance the light. I also used manual focus because droplets are a bugger to focus! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I have done many other droplet photos, but I just need to find them out of the millions of photos I have that fill up my iPhoto. I will post them soon!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I simply isolated the colour in photoshop to edit this photo, which is sadly one of the main things I can do on photoshop. I always tell myself I'm going to be geeky-er and learn more, but I never do.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The inspiration to take this came from nowhere, just a bunch of tic tacs lying on my kitchen work top which thankfully has an awesome reflection. And when I take this blog further, it might unravel that I have a little obsession with reflections, and that I actually did a whole art module on it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And this last one below is my favourite from all the photos I took on the day. I sat the model oposite a window which gave me the perfect lighting to work with. I had no flash or external lighting at the time because it was very early in my photography stage so I did find it hard to get lighting this good. I just think she had a lovely even skin tone all over, with the glossy chair behind glowing nicely, still keeping the detail in the shadows. I probably used a shutter speed of 80 and an aperture of F/5.6 to take this, keeping the ISO at 100 because noisy photos are the worst!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I thought I would make a blog for the simple fact that I need to show off my photography in a better way than flickr. There will also be some probable day to day insights on my life, so here goes...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I'm Brodie Star Weatherill, a dedicated photographer from Wolverhampton at the age of 17 (18 in 14 days). I have been doing photography as a hobby now for four years, and only early last year did I start to take it seriously. I am very keen to per-sue a career in photography when I leave sixth form at the end of this year, which will include mainly weddings, events and portfolio shoots. Any advice with this is never taken a miss! This blog will just be full of my photography, so feel free to comment on what you think of them. I am currently doing art, dance and general studies at a level, but going to university has never been an option for me as I dislike school and don't feel that it would help me too much in what I want to do. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Here is my flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/brodiestarphotography/</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I hope you enjoy my blog.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0