Image of a Snowflake

This was a small fun task we were set one day, as one of our tutors, Marie, is currently doing another 365 project but this time, with Snowflakes. She will make a snowflake everyday of the year, place it somewhere different everyday and take a photograph. For this task we were shown how to make a snowflake, we then made a snowflake and photographed it in a location of our choice. When we were doing this task we were asked to think about how we photographed it, if we used a camera or our phones and how we edited the image - whether we used software on our phones or whether we used Photoshop. We also put thought into where we place the snowflake and to try and put it in an unusual place where you usually wouldn't expect to see a snowflake. 


I took images both on a camera and on my phone, this way I knew I'd be able to experiment more with how I took the picture, the quality of the picture and the editing process in general. 

This was one of the first images I took. I like the contrast of the white of the snowflake and the grey of the tarmac on the floor. I think this reflects how it is when it actually snows too as everyone comments on how the white of fresh snow looks against everything else and makes everything else seem dirty.

When I got the idea to put snowflakes in places where you wouldn't usually find them, I took these two images. They have quite a warm feel to them which I feel adds to them because of how it contrasts with the snow again.

The two images below were edits that I did in Photoshop. By upping the contrast and changing the levels/curves to make the images even warmer and the colours are now how I want them.