Colour studies assignment 'second draft'

Second draft I hear you say? Yes that's correct, and I think the results will be surprising! So for my first draft I opted to go for the 'cosey' type look, shot inside, infront of an open fire. I came away from my first presentation with a few new ideas floating around my head and although I left it kind of late, started to put them into practice...

So I went for a walk round the park local to my house and tried to find some Winter looking trees, plants and bushes, but to no avail! Walking back home I came across this tree which was kind of boldly displaying the berries it produces. They kind of take you straight to a Christmas kind of feeling so I went ahead with my shot.

On my way home from the park I took a nice, quiet stroll round the cemetery round the corner from my house. Still the trees in here we're only just getting to a Autumn type state! I managed to find some brown, dying leaves so they were collected and off I went home, just as I was leaving the cemetery gates I found another berry tree and collected some of them.

After raiding the cupboard for a Tupperware tub, all my findings went in, half filled with water, then into the freezer for a good few hours..

 This image has had the brightness upped slightly to enhance the ice.

 The 'snow' was basically just ice scrapped from the inside of the freezer but I think it works quite well.

 This image was the one that probably received the most appreciation. When I first viewed this image I wasn't happy with the result but after seeing it projected at uni I kind of like it a lot now, funny what a little outside appreciation can do! 

As I mentioned in the 'First Draft', I really enjoy these group presentations, even though I feel really uncomfortable at the start! It's good to have a bit of criticism, it drives me on to come up with other ideas. The biggest criticism of these images was the flower in the images, Winter wouldn't usually produce a flower like this but I picked it because it's in the process of decaying and I thought it would add to the 'change' that occurs in Winter.

It was also mentioned to try and create an image what is less obvious as to what's there, so after the lesson I borrowed a macro lens from uni. My frozen 'props' were still in the freezer so I've had a play about trying to get THAT shot but I shall leave that for another day. I've stuck another lot of props in so they'll be shot and viewed very soon.

I'll always be striving for THAT shot, that's what drives me! =)

So now that's my breakdown of things, tell me how you feel, good or bad...

Grazie