My project proposal - first draft

For this project I will be producing eight final images inspired by Tami Bone. My original plan was to do moving image but I changed my idea and decided to produce still images. I have chosen to work on the theme ‘dreams or memories’. I have looked at many photographers that have done work related to that. But all those photographers have worked with big budgets to produce one image such as Gregory Crewdson and Joshua Hoffine. Those are the type of images that I would not be able to produce in this time frame and because of the equipment needed as well.

I will be take images of things that have lots of lighting going on in the background. This will enable me to produce the effect that Tami Bone has created more effectively. She has made use of the Bokeh Blur on Photoshop, which is mostly effective when a lot of lighting is included in the image.

I have done a few experiments before taking my actual images, which is how I got to know that the lighting part is really important. She has turned all of her images into Black & White as well. I might include a tint in a few of them because it also gives a dreamy effect to the photograph and some images are not really effective when just put in Black & White.

I do not want too much going on in the background either because it just makes a mess behind the object photographed. Most of the images will be photographed outdoors again because of the different lighting sources that I would be able to photograph on the background.

After taking the photographs I will be editing them on Photoshop. Not too much editing will be needed. I only need to keep one aspect of the image in focus and blur the rest out with field blur and than the Bokeh effect after that.

The image of Tami Bone look really simple but there has been thought about it a lot. An example of that Is the image with the dog. It is perfectly cropped and amazingly composed. There is obviously more work in the editing process in those imaged rather than the shooting.

I have found another photographer called Ganesh H. that has produced similar work as Tami Bone with similar techniques on Photoshop. I have been looking at his work as well along with Tami Bone’s work to get more inspiration of what I should do with my work.

I will be producing a total of eight to twelve images and I will present them neatly in a photo box. I will be putting white borders on the photographs as well just to make them look more professional.

I have a total of four weeks before my hand in date. I will be managing my time accurately and try to get everything shot and edited before Easter. I will allow the first few weeks for shooting and posting more research onto my blog. The following weeks will be left for the editing of the images and getting them ready for assessment.