Concept: This week we were to play with scale and light to create illusion and learn more about photography and visual perception. This included making large objects appear smaller, small objects appear larger, light painting and taking macro shots of textures to create something new out of the ordinary. 

Materials: Canon EOS 600D, Torches (Cool and Warm Light - LED), Toy Bed, Candles

I really like the colours within the image as it reflected on the sky scraper and also how it contrasted against the moon. By adding the power line in the first photo contrasted to the moon, I was able to make the moon (which is definitely larger than Brisbane) seem as though it is just a tiny speck in the sky. I think for the second image if I was to take a photo of the skyscraper and compare it to a smaller object, that would give a better illusion of making a large object appear smaller than it really is. Overall I am happy with the images and feel that comparison between the moon and the power line is a better example of the illusion of making a large object appear smaller.

I have a collection of small toy furniture which I had as a kid. In the garden near my apartment, I took the toy bed, a warm light torch and sat it amongst the garden bed, pointing the torch towards the camera, back lighting the leaves. A variety of photos were taken using different angles for the lighting. A selection was made amongst the photos and edited slightly using Adobe Photoshop.

I like this image as it makes me think of fairies that I obsessed over as a kid. When I began taking this I wanted to give off both a enchanted yet creepy vibe. Using directional lighting, the vacant toy bed and making the shadows of the plants appear accentuated this idea. I lit the scene like this as I wanted to create a enchanted atmosphere and to play with the green and blue colours from shining the light through the plants. Overall I feel like the lighting was effective in making the blues and greens from the plants stand out well and also give off a creepy yet enchanted vibe. 

Using a tripod and the top of my parent's apartment, I set my camera up at my heart. Setting my camera to a slow shutter speed of 10 seconds and using a LED torch, I walked with the torch in front of the camera around in circles. I continued to take a series of images, moving the torch around in various ways. A selection was made amongst the images.

I really like this image and chose it amongst many different images taken due to the interesting way my hand made a cool morph-like image. The image looked like a dancer being photographed at slow shutter speed. Overall it looks really elegant and I love how it has turned out. I think that if I was to have the lens in a bit more focus and also perhaps attempt to do this technique in a room that does not have many different textures, or alternatively amongst a gorgeous city backdrop. Perhaps I can try to photoshop this image to see what that may look like!

I love natural texture of the water and the directional line of the shadows of the rocks underneath in this image. I tried to align the dark shadows of the rocks underneath the water to the top third of the image to  balance the composition. The directional lines of the water's texture by the wind and the shadows make the eyes go along the image and visualises the movement of the wind and the water well. I think that if I was to retake the image I would make sure to focus more on the texture on top of the water and perhaps take an image of the rock bed in focus. I feel that would achieve some interesting results. 

Chilling at my parent's place in Mooloolaba as the sun was setting I noticed the interesting lighting on the end of the leather couch that was accentuated by the light coming in from the window. Setting my ISO to 200 and making my shutter speed high, I was able to capture (in theory an unexposed image) the texture of the leather in an interesting way. 

I really love this image for it's slight ambiguity. The light dancing off of the peaks of the leather makes it look like a body of water almost. With the low depth of field in the image, accentuates this idea of the light being highlights from a body of water lit by a full moon. I really love this image a lot, mostly because it represents my own personal aesthetic in photography and art really well.