Major Project

"Rock'n Billy"

Being a big 50's rockabilly fan I set out with the intent of re-creating a 50's swing scene.

I did things a little differently to everyone else, although the development of ideas was proposed first. I shot my deep etch subjects (Jukebox, Megan & Megan's Identical Twin) first & created a scene in photoshop afterwards.

I gained alot of knowledge that Im still working on polishing about perspective & light using photoshop to create the room & shadows featured in the image. I had Andrew Burke suggest some alternative approaches for future reference.

I quite enjoyed this project & look forward to exploring the ideas & technique with different scenes & subjects in the future.

Panorama

So after some exploring of some local nature tracks I found a lookout which Im going to keep secret (haha!)

I shot 6 images to make up the panorama, shot late afternoon keeping some important things in mind...

• Use a tripod
• Overlap each photo by roughly one third allowing good alignment when you come to merge the images a one
• Use a smaller aperture to maximise depth of field (have the whole scene as sharp as possible)

Some things I could have done differently or thought to take into account

• Shoot in portrait orientation instead of landscape orientation to avoid a skinny panorama crop, allowing more room top and bottom for environment detail.
• Explored my surrounds a little more for a better position to include more of my foreground interest in the end result.