Evaluation

Evaluation

For my assignment I had to create Film Noir like photography. Film Noir is photography that is from early 1940s to the late 1950s and is where you take some photos of an object or person and turn it black and white but mainly for these times it would have been black and white with the camera they were using that this time period and was mainly focused on gangster like figures in the dark.

Before we could start taking are photos we had to look at other pieces of film noir on game covers or DVD covers as this is what we were mainly focusing on. After we looked at all these different types of photography we put them in to a new post on blogger and annotate them saying why they inspire us and for what reason and say would we would try to replicate about them for are photo shoot we would have to do for are main piece of work. This was one of the photos that I chose to annotate because it shows off so many things that film noir is about as you have the main gangster at the front of the picture and a women behind as this was the main theme with men being the ‘dominate’ force at this time with women being seen as a less force.

Some Characteristics of standard film noir photography is that you have your lighting right as you don’t want to it bright because then I gives away the feel of film noir as it supposed to be dark and mysterious so if you have the low-key lighting this is usually the strongest light out of three and has the most effect on the scene out of the three this will give it the dark and mysterious aspect.

 Secondly you have the fill light and this is placed on the opposite side of the key lighting and is used to fill shadows that is left by the key lighting and because of this it is usually softer and less bright then the key lighting.

And finally you have the Back lighting which is used to light up the rear of the object you are trying to shoot. Rather than providing direct lighting from the front of the object like the key and fill lightings and helps with the outline of the object you are shooting.

For my photography that I was going to do for my coursework I had to take four shots overall two at home and two at college. And for my first photography that I was going to take I was going to find a tunnel and have someone at the end of it looking like he was going to run away from something and for this shot I was going to need a low IOS and a high shutter speed as the light at the end of the tunnel may of affected the shot. Secondly I was going to take a photo of half of someone face and shadow out the rest so it gives an effect of two sides of someone’s personality. Thirdly I was going to take a picture of a shadow on a wall then say about what’s lurking in the unknown. Finally I had an idea of someone next to a wall smoking like a traditional gangster.

My test shots did not really influence my final images as they worked out fine about from one of the shots I tried taking as it kept going really blurry but I actually look decent and give an effect of Film Noir about it.

For my editing of these shots I had to crop 2 of the images as they has some unnecessary images in the back of the picture as the room I used had a few items we could not move out of the way so they had to stay there but I can just crop them out. Next I can turn it back and white with the levels and curves tool or I can use the short cut of shift+control+U then it automatically turn it back and white for me which is perfect and change the gradient of the photo so I can go black and white at the bottom of the image or the top.

I learnt a lot on this project for many reason first off I did not have a clue and what Film Noir was to begin with so going in to this project I had no clue on what I would have to do so that’s one thing I leant another is some short cuts for Photoshop like the shift+ctrl+U.

In my opinion I thing that met the assignment brief but they don’t match my proposal as one of the photos I could not do as the tunnel I had planned to take a photo of had gone because of the new trams that had just been built so I had to change it as I could not find a suitable replacement for it so no it does not match my proposal really as I had to change my photos.