What makes the these photos so effective?
Specifically, what could you learn about composition from Nicholas Goodden’s photographs?
Some of the words that might have come to mind are minimalist, perepctive, ants eye view, shape, pattern, colour, composition – negative space.
To be successful in today’s photoshoot, you will need to:
- Look closely at details of the building, with a specific focus on trying to find interesting patterns and shapes in the buildings
- Use a bit of imagination and creativity – you can make boring bits look interesting if you are clever with your camera and editing!
- Frame your photos effectively, making sure to leave plenty of negative space
- Use rule of thirds with some of your photos – have your focal point to the side
Choose 6 of your photos to apply basic edits in Lightroom (exposure, contrast, cropping) etc and then choose the best 2 to do a sky replacement.
Open your best 2 photos in photoshop. Edit them to enhance their style, using:
– Crop – enhance composition if needed
- Curves/brightness contrast to enhance shadows – maybe use the burn tool too in places
- Select tool – select the background and add a fill colour – he often uses green/blue
- Other? Get creative!
Upload your photos with the camera settings to a slide titled as the task is titled above.
REFLECTION: Copy and paste these sentences below your edits then complete to review this task.
Through this photoshoot, I learnt how to…
Looking at the work of Nicholas Goodden challenged me to think in a different way about how I take photographs by…
Something I could develop further is…
Try and use some key words!
composition
negative space
focal point
zoom
crop
frame
contrast
pattern
shape
Photography with Tiffany 