Hayley Warren

Analysing and documenting Images

From accessing the previous image of a self portrait

I decided to keep within the theme. I wanted to
create an image which could also be found in the
bedroom that would portray a slight eerie feeling
throughout its audience. I concluded that fire would
help me to create this look. Therefore I started
photographing images of fire. I then positioned a
number of candles around each other and lit them. I
dulled the light to focus the camera on the candles
to try to blur everything else from the image out. I
had to take a number of images before I was able to
achieve this image. It was an extremely hard
photograph to capture as I tried to make each flame
look about the same size without creating too much
light so that it almost blinded the eye to look at.

When it came to editing I inserted it into

Photoshop. I then cut around the image and faded
the background out so that more focus was given to
the candles themselves. I then took out some of the
colour so that it almost looked as though it was black and white. This added to the eerie atmosphere
which I was after creating. I was thoroughly pleased with the finished look and was pleased it was in
keeping with the theme from my first photograph.