Creative criticism..?

Copyright Jade Poppy Frost 2011

Colour version.
Adjusted the levels and placed a warm colour filter over the image, i increased the density from 17 to 38. I chose a warm filter as the colours of the boys hair had quite warm tones in it and the beads being brown, i thought this would be better than a cool filter. I tried the cool filter, this one looked much better, it seemed to suit the image much more, it put an injection of life into it, it looks fierce and lion like.


Copyright Jade Poppy Frost 2011

Black and White version.
Desaturated, levels adjusted, contrast increased. Just wanted to see what it looked like in monochrome. I'm unsure if i like this one better than the colour version?
Its cold, but i like the coldness. I think i've just been a sucker for Black and White photography after having loads of 35mm films developed.

Something different for New Year.

Tis the season when everyone makes "New Years Resolutions" which they make every year and have broken about five times over by the end of February. Researching on the internet, i found the most common ones were, give up drinking for X amount of time, stop smoking, loose X amount of weight and so on (i'm sure you've heard all of these millions of times before from friends, family, people on Facebook, people at work). Moving on to the more unusual ones i stumbled upon, to not cheat on my boyfriend, to annoy my dad once a day, to never do my hair all year. Hmm, each to their own i suppose.

So i decided to make my very own New Years Resolution so to speak. I didn't want to become one of these "my New Years Resolution is to loose weight" people, although i do want to loose weight, i don't see why i need a new year to start doing that, and on the other hand i don't want to be so rad and controversial as "i need to stop cheating on my boyfriend". I wanted to do something cool and different, more of a project than an actual resolution, so i've decided to take one picture every day for a year and post them on here and on Facebook.

Although i am doing photography and take some alright photographs some of the time, its not going to be about photography. A few of them may be good shots, edited and possibly even used for my University work, but mostly it is just an account of my year, a photographic memory of what i did on what days and with whom. That way in 2012, i can look back and have a collection of my year in photographs.

So here goes, i hope you all enjoy. Feel free to post any comments or questions, all are welcome and i shall try to get back to you :)