Photo-Shoot #1

For this photo-shoot, I used low-key lighting in my school's studio, and used my necklaces as the subjects. I felt as though the pendants would fit the 'Fantasy' genre quite well, with one of then being two dragons twisting around eachother, and the other being a chunky cross. I also used physical filters to change the colour of the images in this shoot -- this was purely experimentation.

To capture the images in this shoot, I used a macro lens instead of a regular one because the pendants are relatively small, which makes it difficult for a regular lens to focus on them.

Image #1 (Original Unedited)

I liked the simplicity of this one, in terms of the background being a solid black, and the lighting being clear and not too bright to the point of causing glaring reflections. The pendant is also in-focus, so I chose to edit this one.

Image #1

I used one of the images from Photo-Shoot #3 for the fire in this image. To achieve this effect, in Photoshop, I used the 'quick select' tool to 'cut out' the pendant from the black background. After that, I increased the scale of the pendant before applying an orange 'colour overlay'. I then proceeded to import the image from Photo-Shoot #3, duplicate it, increase the scale of both, move the duplicate into a different position, then increase the contrast and change the 'hue' of the original fire image to red.

 The inspiration for this particular image came mostly from the image of the 'Terminator' skull being engulfed in flames. I thought that it would be interesting to see how a more 'Medieval Fantasy' subject would look in a similar situation.

I like this image, and the concept of a subject being engulfed in flames. I will most likely try to develop this further.

Image #2 (Original Unedited)

The green filter used for this image caught my attention mores than the other images from this shoot.

Image #2

I imported a frame, which I rendered as a '.jpg', from a video I captured during Photo-Shoot #10 of fire. When in Photoshop, I duplicated the 'layer' of the fire, then positioned one to the left of the pendant, and the other to the right. I added a green 'colour overlay', and then changed the 'hue' to a green colour as well, thus making the colors match the ones of the pendant image. Then, I set the "layer modes" of the fire images to 'screen'.

Overall, this created an abstract-looking effect, with the cross also being rather distorted behind the flames. The green flames could be a sorcerer's magic, and the cross behind the flames could represent a falling knight. I really like this image, and might develop this style further in the future.

Image #3 (Original Unedited)

I chose to edit this image because of the physical filter I used when capturing the image; the orange tint of this image already gives it the look of being surrounded by fire. On top of that, the pendant is out-of-focuas, which means that I have the focus on the fire instead, as I will be combining this image with one from Photo-Shoot #10.

Image #3

Oe of the images I captured during Photo-Shoot #10 shows a burst of flames rising upward, and this particular burst of flames resembles a creature/skeleton such as a dragon. With this in-mind, I decided to combine it with this Photo-Shoot #1 image of the dragon pendant, as though to imply that the pendant gives one the power to summon a dragon made of fire, or something of the like.

In Photoshop, I used the 'eraser' tool to remove most of the background from the pendant image, and put the fire image on top of it. Then, I "erased" the fire that was covering the left side of the pendant in order to make it look as though the "fire dragon" is wrapping itself around the pendant.

Overall, I quite like this image as the fire, resembling a dragon, and the pendant of the two dragons work really well together. The colours already matched due to the filter I used when capturing the image of the pendant, and the framing leaves the bottom-right corner empty as "looking room", making the image not seem too hectic.