Wednesday 25 September 2013

Flour Photography

Flour throwing experiment (25.09.2013)

I stumbled upon this cool experiment a while ago, when randomly googling strobist photography, and it fit well with the theme of my photography course (it was similar to the style of a b/w photographer that photographed motion, Harold Edgerton). The process is really throwing flour (preferably really hard!) and just capturing the split second, no, a nano second after the impact to get a really cool effect. 

I wanted to focus mainly on the small bits of flour shattering or bouncing off of Oliver (guy in the photo). To make the smaller bits of flour more visible, I increased the contrast and clarity in Lightroom. I found that a lot of the preset effects in Lightroom worked well with these photos, I'm not too sure why, maybe because there's simpler range of colours? However I can't decide which one looks best.

Original

 Old Polar Preset

 Original

 Selenium Preset

 Old Polar Preset

Original

 Blue High Contrast Preset

Sepia Preset

 Bleach Bypass Preset



Wednesday 18 September 2013

Water droplet photography

Photographing Water Flow

As part of my Photography A level work, I tried capturing water flow by dropping and pouring dyed water into a vase of clear water. The results varied from a cloudy flow to a flow that resembled an artist's brushstroke.




Tuesday 17 September 2013

New Beginnings


New Beginnings

Since I lost the login and password of my old blog, I decided to make a new one. My name's Leung-Kit and I'm an amateur photographer, for my first entry I'll highlight some of my previous work.