Presentation

I have decided to present my folio as an electronic book. I've decided to do these because I want it to be like a series of photos that tell a story. I am going to call it unexpected beauty because I don't think you look to a water reflection to see a really nice scenery.

Final folio Evaluation

Evaluation:

HOW
Some of the troubles I had when taking these photos was:
- Weather. When looking for puddles it firstly had to rain to get these. Or I had to go to a river, lake, beach etc. During this semester it has rained a lot so that was good, but there were times I had to wait a long time for it to stop raining before I could go out and take photos.
Water currents- When taking photos at the beach or at rivers I had to watch out for currents in the water as they would make the photo look blurry. I had trouble with this often when I went to the beach and had to find places where the current was not strong.
- Brightness- I had to watch out for too much sunlight as I could have some photos turn out completely white. This meant I had to look for places and days that were not too sunny.
- Darkness- This was similar to brightness, but instead I had to try and find the medium between the two so that i could get the best photo. I had to make sure I was looking at the photos after I took them to make sure I took enough photos and got the best I could.


WHY
I decided to take photos of water reflections because I love the way that they portray different sceneries in a really unexpected place. 

Final Folio photos

The last few weeks I have been looking at my photos and deciding on my favourite ones. These are the photos I picked for my final folio:

When deciding on my final photos I chose the ones which had the best reflection, most symmetric and the clearest ones.

Photo Editing

This week I chose some of my photos and had a look at editing them in Photoshop. I tried to see if I could change some of them to make the reflection stand out more or make the photo more brighter, etc.

These are some of the photos I equalized.

This photo became more bluer once it was equalized. I'm not sure if I want this to be mainly blue I think I'd rather all the colours to be evenly spread.

This photo became to bright and unrealistic.











I then tried making a few partially black and white; either the puddle or the background.

I think this one looks okay, but not really good. The puddle stands out, but I don't think it makes the photo better than the original.

I like this one the most, but it doesn't make the puddle stand out it makes it look dull.

I sought of like this one, but I think I like it a lot more in full colour.

This one just looks stupid, it is really unrealistic.











I also tried making part of this photo sepia.

I don't like what this effect did to the photo. The background looks really faded and although the reflection stands out it looks like it doesn't fit in.

I like how this photo turned out, but it still looks too edited and I want my photos to be more natural.

Some good water reflections I found

I had a look on Google for water reflections and found some really good examples of what I would love to be able to capture in some of my photos.

I love the effect that they have used for this photo, It is really cool how the reflection is colour instead of the actual mountain.

This reminds me of the photo I took of the puddle and the arch relfection.

It is amazing how they captured the sky in this puddle.

I really love this photo because of the landscape and the reflection.

This one is great because of the texture of the road too.

Water reflections

For the holidays I went to the beach for a few days and thought I'd try and take some more water reflections. I tried most reflecting of lakes and the ocean, but tried to get different objects/scenes reflecting of them. 

I really like this photo because of the detailed reflection.

I really like these photos of the puddle, the sky has some really nice colours and the road is a good contrast to it.

These ones remind me of sepia photos. I like these few because of the colour of the puddle and the effect that has had on the reflection.