Project 26: A Sequence In One Image.

For this project i had to produce something a little different in that in one single image i had to show a sequence of photos all blended together that portrayed movement in some way. To do this the best route was to get my camera mounted on my tripod and then keeping the camera in the same position shot the sequence i wanted. Being interested in wildlife photography i was on the look out for a suitable subject and one day i court site of a small rabbit that i thought might provide me with the perfect image. After positioning myself very quietly so as not to scare him off i settled in for a wait to see what kind of activity i might capture and was pleasantly surprised when he started to give himself a good clean. To begin with i did worry that the shutter noise might scare him off but luckily he seem completely happy for me to be there and never ran off till i was happy with what i captured and was packing up to leave.

When i came to combining the shots i found i had a small problem that i hadn't foreseen in that he hadn't move as much as I'd thought meaning that all the images just overlayed one another creating just a complete blur so i alter the way i combined the images to produce something a bit different because i was really happy with my shots and wanted to use them in some fashion. Below is what i finally produced.

In the course folder the first example they give you of this kind of imagery is of a bird of prey flying through the frame, although mine is similar in that its a series of images stitched together side by side it isn't exactly the same as you can see but it still show a series of images depicting movement in one single image. I did have a little trouble in blending the joins so that they aren't so obvious but in the end i think it turned out well. I know it isn't exactly what you're ask to produce but on the other hand i think it a good study of a wild animal and a different way of portraying animal behavior.

Photos I Didn't Use In Assignment 4.

What i present here is the collection of photos that i haven't chosen to use in my 4th Assignment for various reason which I'll explain as i go through them.

The problem i had with this first photo wasn't that the blend didn't work very well it was more the fact that there wasn't any real connection between the two images i used where as the majority of the work i sent to my tutor had some connection of one type or another. Its not bad but it just doesn't work right.

The next image i do quiet like but what made me leave it out of my final selection was because of the way the lines in the back wall make it feel as if the background is on a big slant compared to the door. I did try straightening the image in photoshop but found that when I'd straightened the background the door ended up instead at a very strange angle. A same in the end but its down to the fact that I'd did observe properly how the lines in the frame were running when i shot it.

This shot i again discounted firstly because of the lines in the tiles not appearing straight enough, i think this was more down to the wall then myself. Secondary, and the main problem was the way the colours didn't seem to work right together, because the tiles are such a bright colour i didn't think the darkness of the water and the shadows really help it to become a particularly appealing image. I did consider trying it as a black and white image but as it would have been the only one in the collection i discounted it straight away as it wouldn't have fit in at all.

The final image lost out because it didn't fit in with the overall theme, one it isn't an interior view that i placed a landscape into and secondly with only the small amount of colour in it it wouldn't have appear right with the rest of my work. I thought the symbolism of the shot works really well because the original is of the wall at the national memorial arboretum which has the names of all service people kill since the second world war on it and then with the poppies added over the top it just works.