Commercial Product/Reflective subject - Vivienne Westwood perfume

I decided to use tartan as the background because its a signiture Vivienne Westwood pattern, i left it crumpled to add to the Westwood effect, as it echos some of her designs. I have already done both my Commercial and reflective object pictures, although i decided to do this aswell just to give me more options for my portfolio.

Here is the original un-edited version (apart from cropping) and a few alternatives:

Shallow Depth of Field #2 - Hello Kitty

Focal Lengths

Taken using a 28-80mm zoom lens.

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Shallow Depth of Field

Today i decided to have a go at doing the shallow depth of field image, i cut out some hearts from paper and coloured them in red, so i could stick them to trees - to give me something a little more interesting to focus on. I think these images effectivly show a shallow depth of field and i like how interesting the out of focus branches in the background look!

This is the final image i chose. i desaturated the blue and cyan colours and added a slight texture.

Motion Blur #2

I decided to have another go at motion blur, as i wasn't particularly happy with the ones i did before. This time, as i only had myself as a model to hand i had to do self portraits. I have also decided to start the 365 project on flickr - basically one photograph every day, for a year! hopefully i will give it my best and not give up.

Firstly, here are some motion blur images i did the other week, although i wasn't that pleased with them. They were taken in daylight outside so i've got a feeling it was a little to bright to get a decent exposure.. especially using slow shutter speeds. Most of these images were taken with these settings - ISO 100, f/22, 2.0 sec.

I quite like the second image since it's quite surreal, even though i seem to be missing arms. I like how my shoes are quite sharp and in focus but the rest of me is a blur. I decided to experiment with this image in photoshop, i added a texture, which is one of my own! The scratches are one of the plastic sheets i used for this, i scanned them in and adjusted the contrast. I also added a border which was taken from one of my old prints.

These are the images i took today, i think they are alot more effective. They were taken indoors with one continuous light source. The settings used are ISO 100, f/22, 2.0sec.