1) The document discusses different experimental photography styles including out of focus images, movement, reflections, and photo montages. 2) For out of focus images, the photographer took blurry photos of books in the library to showcase the blurry outlines and popping colors. For movement photos, long shutter speeds captured blurred images of people walking. 3) Reflection photos were captured at angles to show reflected scenes. The best photo montage combined scattered individual photos to create a rough collage-like finished image.

1. Experimental Photography
Emily Monsey
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2. Out of focus
This style of photography shows an out of focus image giving it a blurry look
which can work really well depending on the subject of the image. I decided to
take my photographs of books from the library as I felt that this would give a really
nice final look and work really well with the style of an out of focus image. I also
thought that the words and images on the pages of the books would work really
well with the out of focus look. The colours of the books really stand out which is
another thing I loved about using the books as the subject of my photographs, it
gives a blurry outline of the objects in the image in a way that it becomes clear
what it actually is but doesn’t actually give too much detail which his something I
really liked about using this style of imagery. For this style of photography we had
to adjust the settings of the camera to ensure that it gave a really blurry look to
the subject of the photographs. This was done by changing the switch to manual
focus rather that auto focus as this enabled us to set the focusing of the lens
ourselves instead of letting the camera do it for us. If we had set this to auto focus
this wouldn’t have given the out of focus look we were aiming for with these
images as it would have perfectly set the focus for the lens meaning it would
make the images really clear and sharp in detail. Setting this to manual focus
helped us to set the focus ourselves meaning we could make it as blurry as we
wanted which gave it a really nice effect overall.

3. Use this slide to annotate your best image
This image I feel is my best
from this style of
photography as it worked
really well with the blurring
of the text and images on
the pages of the books
which is what I was trying
to achieve with this object.
The colours aren’t
very clear in the image
which I actually liked
as it added to the out
of focus look we were
going for with this
style. However with
the other images I had
taken of the books the
colours were fairly
bright which I liked as
it shows contrast
between the images I
had taken.
I tried to make the angles a
little different to add
contrast between the
images I took. For this one I
really like that it shows it is
a book by the clear lines of
the different pages and I
also like that it seems that
the image is even more
blurry as it is furthest away
from the lens.
I didn’t want the out of focus style of
these images to effect it too much so
that it would become impossible to
know what the object in the image is
so I really like that this image still
made it really clear.

4. Movement
For this style of photography I found it much harder to choose a subject as it was
hard to find large groups of people walking or to get close enough to any moving
vehicles around college This meant that this was fairly time consuming as it
meant waiting around for groups of people to pass, however when they did I
managed to capture the movement in a really slowed down way allowing you to
see the blurs in the image that are created from the movement of people walking.
In the second image I was also able to capture people moving and also someone
almost standing completely still which gives a main focus on the image. To create
this look for the images and in order to capture movement I had to change the
shutter speed. This was changed to a longer shutter speed and I had set mine to
f/16 as I found this worked well for the movement I wanted to capture and gave
nice blurred effect. I had first set the shutter speed to even longer meaning it
would have took longer for the lens to capture the image, however I found this to
be a little overly blurred as it wasn’t clear at all what the subject of the image was
and resulted in one massive blur instead of showing more defined dots to
resemble the bodies of the people walking as well. Next I took an image of one
person instead of a group and it enabled me to do a close up shot with the same
movement effect on it. I had done this by using the same shutter speed as I had
previously used and then physically moving the camera myself and moving the
zoom on the lens at the same time which resulted in a really blurry shot showing
movement in the image.

5. Use this slide to annotate your best image
I feel this is my best image
as it allowed me to do a
closer shot of movement
instead of taking one at a
distance which didn’t allow
me to get as much detail as
I would have wanted.
I like that everything in this
image is really blurred and
it looks as though there is a
double of everything as it
has doubled the subject
and the lights in the
background making them
look quite stretched.
I also like that you can
still see some detail in
the original
underlining image of
the actual person and
then the effect has
just stretched the
original subjects of the
image making it look a
little different and
much more interesting
visually.
To create this effect I had
lengthened the shutter speed in
order to show the movement in the
image. I then moved the camera
myself and also adjusted the zoom
settings of the lens as I was
capturing the image.
I had first just tried using the adjusting of the zoom
settings and the change in shutter speed, however I
had found that not enough movement was being
shown. Therefore I then decided to make it look a
little more interesting and I actually moved the
camera at the same time as taking it to show lots
more movement in the image.

6. Reflections
I really enjoyed finding different ways to show reflection as I found that the final
look and the final quality of the image was very dependant on what you were
taking the image of as some things worked really well, however some didn't’ work
well at all. I first took a picture of this mirrored object that had found which
reflected what was in front of it really well which allowed me to photography it
from an angle and show the balcony that has been captured in the image.
However this proved to be quite hard to get a really effective final image which
made it one of my least favourite subjects to use. I then found that the glass
windows also worked really well when shooting from an angle instead of head on
as this meant you could get much more of the refection on camera due to the
lighting and also what the glass was reflecting. Lastly on this page I had wanted
to use sunglasses as a way to reflect light as it appeared to pick up the lights from
the ceiling really well. I had originally wanted to shoot this image outside as I felt
that this would work much better due to the sun shining on it and actually being
able to capture the landscape in the lens of the glasses instead of the lighting.
However this wasn’t an option for me as the weather happened to be really dull
meaning the sun wasn’t reflecting on the glasses as well as I wanted.

7. Use this slide to annotate your best image
My favourite image is this
one as it the glass was
really clear and enabled me
to get a really clear crisp
reflection from it showing
the college and a reflection
of a person.
The lighting is really bright
in this image which I also
really liked as it really
helped to capture a clear
reflection instead of it
being too hard to see which
we had found to be the
case with some of the glass
surfaces around college.
Not much preparation was needed for this
image which is also something I really liked
as you didn’t need to change lots of the
settings to get a good effect for the final
image as it was a case of using the lighting
and different reflective surfaces to find what
works best for you.
I prefer this one from
the others I had
taken purely down to
the clearness of the
reflection as none of
the others had
worked as well as
this one and the
angle of it meant I
could capture more
of the reflection also.

8. Photo montage
This one was probably my most favourite overall to capture as I find the final look
of this montages the most interesting to look at. I had wanted to achieve a fairly
rough outline of the image as I didn’t want it to perfectly matchup so it looked to
clean cut was this is something I personally preferred. To achieve this look for the
image we had to take several individual images of a particular scene or subject
and then use Photoshop to do the rest and organise them in the final image. I
really like that the images don’t match up as it just makes them look much more
original and unique. I had firstly taken the pictures of the painting I had seen
around college as I felt that this would give a really effective final look and work
really well, however although I was happy with the final look I still wanted to
achieve a much more rough outline for the image to give it a scattered style
instead of being slightly more structured and inline. I found this one to be really
simple in the method you use to complete it, however it still gave a really
interesting final image. I would definitely experiment more with this style as I feel
that I preferred using larger scale scenes such as the top image rather than using
a smaller subject as I just prefer the final look that it had given in comparison.

9. Use this slide to annotate your best image
For this image I ensured
that the individual
photographs I was taking
were much more scattered
which was actually much
easier to do when using
somewhere outside and
things like the sky and parts
of the car park as it all
looks really similar through
the lens.
I really prefer eh much
more scattered look for
these images as I think it
helps it to look much more
interesting than if it is really
exact and structured as this
style allows you to create a
really rough final look that
still has a really effective
final look.
This is definitely my
favourite image I had
taken for this style of
photography and
possibly even my
favourite style to take
photographs overall as
I find it much more
interesting that the
others.
I like the effect it had on
the colours and the
positioning of certain
objects in the image. For
example the cars in the
image got mixed up as the
images were combined.