Metallic

Metallic

These are 2 pictures I found on googled after I googled metallic photography as I wanted to get some influence and ideas for my metallic shoot. 

For metallic at first I wanted to do metallic nails with jewellery on the persons hands, but then I came across these pictures and changed my mind. I liked the idea of doing bolts and screws and other objects like that because I wanted to get some rusty and dirty one and some clean ones so you could see the colour different and I thought the dirt and rust would show up really well against a white background and having the clean shiny nails there as well to show the colour difference.

This is my first picture I had taken for my metallic shoot the pictures found in my research really influenced my shoot so I wanted to incorporate both clean and dirty/rusty objects to really show off the different colours and to show how my findings had influenced me. In the picture there is silver and gold clean screws and then I put in rusty nails and other rusty objects that I could find. I thought this would look good as its something different as there's a lot to look at in the photo. I think having the white background really brought out the rusty objects and the clean screws. For this picture I used shallow depth of field as the front of the picture is more clear and in focus compared to the background of the picture its quite blurred. The focal point of the picture I think is the front of the picture as its more clear so that's where my eyes go right at the centre at the front of the picture.  When placing the objects down I didn't want them any specific way I just put the screws down first and them chucked the rusty objects on top as I just wanted to fill the frame.  I like how its different coloured nails and screws and how its not all one colour or the same object.

This picture was taken on a Canon EOS 650D the F-stop was F/5.6,  exposure 1/160, ISO 1600, Focal length 30mm and no flash was used when taking the picture.

I used Photoshop on the picture to brighten the picture as I wanted the screws and nails to stand out more and be more brighter. When brightening the picture the orange/brown rust on the nails became really clear and stood out more than it did before I brightened the picture. I like this because you cans see the clear difference between the clean screws and the dirty nails.

This is another one of my pictures that I have done for metallic. For this shoot I had the tent once again on the table with a soft box to the left and right of the tent. At first I put the box in flat and took some pictures like that but it just looked boring with all the screws in the box so I decided to turn the box on its side and to get some of the screws and drag them out so it would look like how it does in the picture. I was happy with it looking like this so I kept the box like that and continued to take my final pictures for metallic. Shallow depth of field has been used here as the screws at the front of the box are clear and in focus and as it goes further back they aren't as clear.  Using rule of thirds the box and screws are right in the centre of the picture with just the white background around it making it the clear focal point of the picture.

This picture was taken on a Canon EOS 650D the F-stop was F/5.6,  exposure 1/160, ISO 1600, Focal length 30mm and no flash was used when taking the picture as with using the tent and the soft boxes it was bright enough and flash wasn't needed.

For this picture I used Photoshop to brighten it and make the white more whiter so the gold screws would stand out even more. By brightening the picture the screws and even shinier  and the box that the screws came in almost blends in with the background as its that white.