Sunday, 23 April 2017
Friday, 21 April 2017
Shoot 4- Work Diary
In this series I chose to focus on the city of Norwich from different perspectives, including the buildings, architecture and the urban landscape from a distance as opposed to my last shoot the first person view of walking through the market and town. I am overall
This shot is an overview of the market roofs, buildings in the backdrop and sky. I wanted to capture the image in this way to show off the fun colorful feel of the markets against the very old buildings and castle. The shot includes one subject of a woman's head looking off into the surrounding view. The image seems to capture the urban landscape of Norwich, without a very polished and crisp attention to detail, this is why it makes for such a raw, candid piece of photography. I wanted to ultimately show the juxtaposition and contrast with the small colorful market stools and the Victorian backdrop of buildings. The F stop of 14 meant that I could get a large aperture shot creating good depth of field within the image, this is evident in some of the clarity of the buildings in the far backdrop. The brightness of the image is fairly light without too much light taking away from the contrast in colors.
In this shot, I wanted to focus on the architecture making the vast majority of the urban landscape of Norwich, particularly the old Victorian buildings, churches and castles. The perspective I wanted to capture in this shot was a view looking up into the exterior of part of the church, this was too creative an impression of the size and structure of the building, as opposed to taking the shot from far away, I feel like this also helps to give clarity and depth to the shot, showing off the elements of the structure. An area of this that caught my appeal was the windows, I wanted to capture the intricacy of the glass and also the coloured emblem in white and blue on the top of the main section in the photo. The ISO being 400 allowed me to capture the light falling on the building and ultimately illuminating showing off the structure of the church. The frame of the shot includes the blue sky, this helps to contrast against the light tonality of the church.
Progression-
The act of photographing a city has worked well in the last two shoots, and so I'd like to further my endeavors, in shooting other cities. I liked the alternate perspective I focused on in this shoot to show another side to the city, this helped to portrayal an overall view and series of the urban landscape of Norwich.
Tuesday, 11 April 2017
Shoot 3- Work Diary
For shoot 3 I took a series of images from my perspective view; walking around Norwich, particularly around the market, I wanted to get my eye-level view of the urban landscape, the market was one area I particularly focused on as I wanted to get candid photos of people in their urban environment.
This shot is from outside the market looking in at all the private cafes and people shopping at them, the main parts of the image which I like about the shot is the depth of field, the aperture is an F stop of 13 and so you can most detail of the total depth of the image, also the bright red and yellow shutters and the contrast with the metallic grey shops and opaque roof of the market, it makes for a natural, candid feel. Also the people all in the market getting their food and drinks, socialising is very typical of a Norfolk scene. The image depicts the urban landscape of Norwich, the market being a very important, culturally rich part of the city. The shot is also from my perspective walking in to the market and so gives a natural, un-staged feel. The image has an all over light, airy feel to it, however the lighting could have been improved with increased ISO and aperture.
This shot is very similar to my last one, however there are elements that I really like. The overall tone of the piece is really light and airy, I like the mute colours of the grey shops and transparent roofs, the angles of all the shapes of the shops and diagonal roofs jutting out makes for an interesting image. The depth of field in the image is really effective due to the large aperture, you can see near enough all the way to the end of the market where the light comes out, the people are all with their backs turned, socialising or walking away in the distance. I think the photo is a candid piece of street photography showing the urban environment of the Norwich market, including the people, businesses and everyday goings on.
Progression-
In my next shoot I'd like to explore different perspective views of the urban landscape, and buildings in Norwich to get a broader sense of the city and makeup of the place. I think this shoot was effective in showing my perspective of walking through parts of the city without focusing too much on the different elements of the urban landscape.
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