Weekly Picture Project 2

for this weeks weekly picture project our brief was:

"everyday unusual"

this could be interpreted however we want but had to show something that was unusual to an everyday setting with different angles to accompany them.
this week i decided to take props into my garden and set them up with everyday actions.

for my first image , i was clearly influenced from that famous scene form "alice in wonderland" during the mad hatter's tea party.
by setting up this pinata on my garden bench with a dish and cutlery as if he is having a meal, i have set out what i wanted to achieve.
edited by simply giving a vignette effect made in "aperture" and then going into "photoshop" to add sepia, i have given the image a vintage feel, finally i erased the background layer over the pinata so that the colours would come through clearly as he is the main focus of the image and wanted to draw the viewers even more to him and make it almost hypnotic to look at.

fot this image, i wanted the subject to seem alive and that i caught him just as he realised.
the angle on this is interesting as i got far down to and rested my camera in the grass with it at a slight angle looking up.
editing techniques were again the same style as the previous image although i have added a further sharpness, definition and vibrancy to the subject in "aperture" to make the subject much more detailed.

for my final image i wanted to re-create a natural insect in a natural environment, and as this is "unusual everyday" i decided to use that exaggerated caterpillar toy leaning out of a small tree in my garden.
again the angle on this is also usual as i led on my back underneath the tree and took the image looking up so it makes the subject seem like it is coming out of the photograph.
editing this time was without the use of a vignette and instead just a a mix of contrasts and sepia with again (as with the first image) the use of layers and erasing it so that the colours of the toy caterpillar would fully come through so that it adds to the effect of the subject literally leaning out of the image.

this weeks picture project of "everyday unusual" was successful for me as i got what i wanted to achieve and i have also been able to show a quirkiness and originality in me with the use of these images.