Architectural & Nature Photography presentation

Video Pitch

Mind Map

Mood board

Final Piece evaluation

Evaluation

For my final piece of photography shots, I spent a day outside just capturing shots of architectural objects and the nature outside. For nature, I stuck straight with getting average shots of natures scenery; trees, branches, grass/flowers and any other animals that were necessary at the time. For architecture, I decided to not stray too far from the cliché side of architectural building shots, but chose to capture shots of smaller objects so they would look more define as they would be much easier to get good shots of.

While taking my nature shots, I used a combination of shot settings; shallow depth of field and frozen motion, in which would give me a much greater focus as well as them being paused in a moment of time as some were moving objects. While taking my architectural shots, I used another combination of shot settings; shallow depth of field as well as large depth of field with some use of landscape rule of thirds so that my shots would come out straight forward and clear in structure and also just contain a feature of a larger stronger focus.

When it came to presenting my final gathered shots, I was giving feedback how the shots that contained use of shallow depth of field was my strongest feature and stand out from my final pieces. Especially the type of angles I had my shots positioned when using the shallow depth of field technique. One of my shots was said to give an impression that diverts the focus to two points in the shot because it actually looks as if it was split down the middle, which was an unusual shot but still intriguing, which is what I was exactly aiming for. Most of my other shots just weren't as clear as I originally had thought so and also baring in mind the fact that all my shots I presented hadn't been edited in a way to look more advanced, but therefor I was only left with 3-4 well structured composition shots I could really present.

After the feedback, I then went out again to capture some. composition shots to improve my final piece. Focusing more on architectural photography and as I around a much more different area then where I had first gotten some shots, it allowed a much wider variety of ideal shots I need to complete my final piece.      

Shadow

Settings:
Aperture priority
ISO 200-400
Focus 5.6

Interesting framing techniques

Settings:
Aperture: F7.1
Shutter speed: 1/25
ISO: 400 

Final piece

Rule of Thirds landscape & large depth of field

1. The rule of thirds is applied by aligning a subject with the guide lines and their intersection points, placing the horizon on the top or bottom line, or allowing linear features in the image to flow from section to section.

Settings:
This shot setting used allows you to still capture a specific field in focus while everything else blurs out but just in larger landscape position, in which you can capture a wider shot.
Aperture Priority
F11 wide depth of field