Work Diary - Blurring

Shoot Evaluation:
I thoroughly enjoyed this shoot because of the visually interesting patterns and designs created through movement. Although I initially struggled to understand the concept of the studio's setup for this particular technique, I felt that once I had the camera in my hands and was taking the pictures myself, I fully understood the technique and was able to come up with some interesting movements for my models to create effective photos. Also, I found that actually capturing a decent photo was quite hard - I found that movements that were too quick tended to not look like anything at all, and movements that were too slow didn't show the blurring effect as much as I wanted it to. I found that the best results came from asking my model to partially move - moving just the arms for example, but keeping her body/head still - this kind of effect give viewers a central focal point whilst the blurring effect is created around it.

I like the final editing of this photo; the colours are really strong and the shadow that falls across Katie's face shows the form, giving off the idea that this is in-fact a 3D object-shoot. I think that this shot worked well because Katie kept her whole body more-or-less still, but has managed to move just the arms to create the 'swooshing' movement.

I'm also pleased with the editing of this photo - I changed the brightness and contrast setting to make Katie herself look lighter and more transparent - almost ghost-like. I like this effect because in turn it also makes the coloured scarves look brighter in contrast, and allows the readers various focal points to look at.






How could I apply this to my personal project?
With my current Contrast ideas in mind, I don't feel like this technique will fit into my personal project all that well. Saying this, I do know that this technique works quite well with dark backgrounds and bright lights being used for the movement, so this could perhaps be an interesting topic to explore looking at the contrasts of colours.