Form- work diary.

Evaluation of session;
 I enjoyed taking photos of 'Form' as i liked paying attention to shadows and which was the sun was facing to try and take a 'good' photo including the topic form. However i found the session to be slightly difficult as, although the sun casts a shadow on almost everything, it was still difficult to find a good shadow that will make the object look three dimensional in the two dimensional picture.

 This was my favourite of all of the photos i had taken during that session. I like it as it captures a lot of different shadows that make the tree and the building look three dimensional. The first shadow is on the building in the background, one side is dark and the other side is light, making it look 3d, the second shadow is the one casted by the tree and the third is the shadow on the tree, both of these shadows make the tree look more three dimensional.

The second picture i've chosen to evaluate is this one of the shade casted by a person. I like this picture as although we know that he is three dimensional in real life, in the photo he is two dimensional as it is only a photograph but the shadow that he casts causes him to look three dimensional. Similarly, as there is darker shadows on his jumper and jeans, it allows us to see the persons dimensions and the clothing's texture.




Progression; 
If we were to continue to take pictures of the topic 'Forms' i would look closer into flowers and leaves to look at the shadows casted in the them rather than the shadow casted by them as the majority of my picture were of the shadows casted by the object.

Form- definition post

Dictionary definition; 

'The visible shape or configuration of something.'

Describing words;

Curved, deep, shadowed, bold, square, slim

Four annotated pictures;

 This first picture as it uses shadows to show the people dancing in the foreground have three dimensions. I like this picture as even though the shadows are far away from the dancers you can still tell its from them. As well as this you can see the people are three dimensional as they also have shadows on they bodies, like on the back of they arms and it is noticeable against their white costumes.

 The second image i have selected to write about is a picture of two feet. This image again uses the shadows to show that the feet in the picture have three dimensions as opposed to two like the photograph. I like this image as the use of lighting is good and has a good contrast against the black background.

 The third image i have found is of a texture floor. I chose to use this image as even though the floor its self can not be portrayed to be three dimensional, through the use of lighting and the ridges in the floor you can see that the floor is not dead flat, that it has shape and dimension.

The final image i have selected to write about is this black and white picture of a rose. This picture is good at showing form as the lighter parts of the petals seem to be closer to us and the darker parts in the shadows seem further away and slightly smaller. The use of these shadows and lighting make the flower in the picture appear to be three dimensional.

Own definition;
The shape that an object or matter possesses.

Form- straight images

Form- image bank

The one thing that each of these images have in common is that they both use shadow to show that the things in the picture are 3D. The first image is a picture of a tree, although there are no shadows on the ground the tree still appears to be 3D as the sun is behind the tree meaning that the shadow falls on the side of the tree we can see, making it look three dimensional. The penultimate image shows form by the shadow of the tree on the ground, although the trees are blacked out, as the sun is behinds them, you can still tell that they are three dimensional the the shape of the shadows cast. I like the final image in the image bank as although you can only see part of the moon, the way it gets lighter towards the right show us that its 3D.