SEQUENCE OF DECAY

For my sequence of decay I decided to shoot an ice cream melting. As you can see the two photos below are the beginning and end of the sequence. Firstly, I'm really not happy with the camera quality, even though I did use my Nikon DSLR, the lens that I used was 18-55mm zoom lens as I wanted a close up shot. However, using this lens doesn't produce the best images unlike my 35mm lens. Next time I shoot this sequence I'm going to make sure that I use my 35mm lens to get the best photographs from it. I did shoot this sequence as RAW files and then edited them all together in Photoshop Camera RAW. When editing them I decided to make the temperature a little cooler to get that blue undertone. I also adjusted the shadows, highlights, contrast, saturation and clarity make the image look better and bolder overall.

The next thing that went wrong was the fact that I didn't have a automatic timer to set the shutter off on the camera, so I had to manually take the photos in 1 minute intervals. Because I had to manually take the photos, I didn't realise until I imported the photos to make the GIF that every time I took the photo, the camera moved slightly making each shot in a slightly different position which mucked up the overall look of the GIF as the photo frame wasn't in the same place. So for the next time I shoot this sequence, I need to make sure that I have a timer to automatically set of the shutter or to properly secure the tripod so that the camera doesn't move with each shot. I decided to do an ice cream melting because, it showed a fast decay from it being frozen to melted and lost all shape and form in 30mins.

 

The link to the ice cream melting is below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcuEI2J_izo

Second Attempt at my Sequence of Decay

This is my second attempt my sequence of decay to try and improve from my melting ice cream sequence. The set up for this sequence was my Nikon D3100 equipped with the 35mm lens. The camera was then attached to a tripod with the camera facing down towards the bunch of unopened flowers. For the next 2 weeks everyday I took a photo of the flowers as they opened up to the end of them wilting and dying. Then once I had all the shot I needed I imported them into camera Raw in Photoshop and saved them as jpeg photos as the NEF files are too large to put into a GIF file. I did this to show the small changes that happens during flowers opening up to dying.


the link to the flowers blossoming is below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEUlk3pyAy4

HIGH SPEED PHOTOGRAPHY

This was the set up for the high speed photography that we did yesterday. We had a tripod for the camera that had a macro lens on it. Then three tripods with the trigger and light connected to it. We then had a bowl of water to drop the plum in to. What we had to do was have someone ready to drop the plum from the height of the rolled brown paper. Then you also need someone on the camera ready to take the 5 sec exposure and ready to tell the person dropping the plum when to drop it. Then you also needed someone on the flash trigger resetting it for the separate shots. Below are some of the best photographs from the shoot that day.


We used a bowl of water and dropped an apple into it to created the big splash. We used a massive set up for this shoot with a large DSLR camera with a large zoom lens also with infrared triggers to set of the flash when the apple goes through it. The camera is set on a 10 second exposure time so that the camera doesn't miss the shot. The room is pitch black so when the flash goes off the camera only captures the moment when the splash happens.