Shoot Plans

Shoot One: For this shoot I intend to go to London with a few friends, I want to look at how my peers act naturally, as teenagers we are quite carefree, in contrast to how adults usually are, many adults are very serious and don't want to do silly poses for photographs which my friends naturally do, I think this shoot will work really well and if it does I would like to do the same thing with older people that are in their 40's to see how it contrasts. Already done

Shoot Two: I am going to Brighton on Holiday with my family, there will be people of a variety of ages, so I want to take a few photos there. A majority of these photographs will be location portraiture as Brighton is a very beautiful city and I don't get to visit much. Already done

Shoot Three: I would like to take photographs of younger children around my brothers age, which is ten. I think that I will explore doing slow sync or blur for this photo shoot as I think it will show young children as they are, which tends to be very fidgety, I believe that this photo shoot would look really good and I will get the chance to explore the technique a bit more. Rather than doing these photos in the studio, I think I will try doing them in the evening outside. Or if I do Blur I will do it outside during the day. 15th October

Shoot Four: For this shoot I would like to look at older people, probably in their 60's or 70's. I think this shoot will work really well with multiple exposure, I think it looks really good if I can keep the facial features on the subject, instead of entirely covering them in the other image. I will probably do this shoot in two parts, one when I go to kent to see my grandmother and another when my other grandparents come to visit me next. I would like to see how this shoot works as I think it might turn out really nice. Ongoing 

Shoot Five: In this shoot I will be taking photographs of people in the studio, I would like to do both boys and girls and when I've done this I may split it up into two shoots, or I may just do one. I would like to do this in the studio because I am able to control the lighting this way. I would like to do this shoot in the style of Thomas Ruff. 18th October

Shoot Six: I would like to take photographs of youth out in London, I may go to Brick Lane for this, I think it would be a good shoot to do near christmas. I don't know when I will do this.

Multiple Exposure - Final Images

Leaves: 

Exposure: 1/100 seconds, f/5.6, ISO: 200

Subject:

Exposure: 1/100 seconds, f/5.6, ISO: 200

Multiple Exposure - Technique

Definition: Multiple Exposure is the superimposition of two or more exposures to create a single image, and double exposure has a corresponding meaning in respect of two images. The exposure values may or may not be identical to each other.

Menu System - Multiple Exposure - auto gain off - number of shoots: 2 

High key - put camera in spot metering mode (this will focus on the face of the subject and not the background, making the background over exposed) nothing else is visible. Put it in aperture priority mode, puts focus point in the centre. Exposure +2

Photoshop - open the two photographs, drag to the same canvas and select normal and turn it to screen on the side of the photoshop

Multiple Flash - Technique

To create this effect we need:
A tripod
Flash
Soft box above the subject

Shutter Speed: 6 seconds
F stop: 22/16
ISO 200

Multiple flash is when you take one photograph with more than one flash, to take this type of photo you need to use a long exposure time, which is around three or four seconds.

This photographic technique is quite interesting and I think that it has a very good effect. This technique is used to show movement, although you can use it on objects like balls being thrown for example, I think that it looks better when you are taking photographs of people.

Multiple Flash - Work Diary

For this technique we used a tripod, a snoot (which focuses the light straight onto the subject), we also used a light meter (this was used to tell us what to put our camera settings to). My group experimented with different poses, including just moving around freely and also staying in one position to create an image similar to the one below.

I think this is my best photograph from the shoot. Originally I wanted the subject to move about more however staying still for some of the image ended up looking really good, this photograph actually really reminded me of a photograph of the beatles that I have seen. However I do think that the image is over exposed in places. We used a light meter to make sure we were using the right camera settings, but there was some natural light that got in after that must've affected the final images. 

This photograph is my worst from the shoot because the subject didn't move around the studio space enough and the layers ended up getting really bright. It seemed like a really good idea but when we actually did it, it didn't work well. We did quite a bit of experimenting in this shoot as we didn't know what would work well, this happened not to. However I really enjoyed this technique.

Progression:

Although I really like this technique, I don't think I will be using it for my project because it doesn't work well for what I'm doing. However I do like how candid the subjects look in these photographs. In addition, the equipment to take photographs like this outside of the studio is quite expensive and I don't think I would use it much.

Multiple Flash

Shoot Two - Straight Images

Blur - Work Diary

This is my best photograph from the blur shoot, I really like how this turned out because one of the subjects is in focus whilst the other is very blurred, I like this because it has such a contrast, it shows how some people are in such a rush while others are content and don't have to do things as quickly, however this is showing the opposite to what people would usually think, the woman that is blurred is actually an old person, when usually it is the younger people that are in a rush.

This is my worst photograph from the shoot, because the subject had moved out of frame, although there are people in the background of the photograph, it is mostly a very plain photograph, it doesn't catch your eye as much as the other photographs that I used. In addition, this photograph looks like it was slightly slanted, I used a tripod as this type of image needs a tripod for it to be good.

Progression:

I really like this kind of photography, I like the idea of going to London and having the background full of people walking in a rush, whilst the camera is focused on the subject who is completely still. I think this would create a very good and possibly symbolic effect. Showing how life can rush past you if you aren't careful.

Slow Sync - Work Diary

ISO - 200

F stop - 5.6

Shutter Speed - 1.6 seconds

This photo is my best from the shoot, it really shows slow sync very well, we can see where she has moved but we can also see her in very sharp quality. I really like this effect because it could be used very symbolically, it looks like the soul is leaving the body, especially in this photograph where it is still connected. I think I would like to try this effect in one of my shoots to explore the effect a bit more, although I will do it out of the studio at night. I would like to see how it will work out of the studio because it is quite plain in the studio. To make sure we used the right F stop and ISO we used a light meter, this accurately shows us what the camera settings should be.

ISO - 200

F stop - 5.6

Shutter Speed - 1.6 seconds

This is my worst photograph from the shoot, although it does show slow sync, it doesn't show it very well, in addition the subject isn't in very sharp quality like most of the others that I did. Also the subject isn't filling enough of the frame, one side of it is completely black and very boring to look at, whereas my best photograph there is the slow sync effect on both sides which makes the photograph much more appealing to look at.

Progression:

Next time I will spend longer taking these photographs as I didn't get as many as I hoped I would. Furthermore I think it would look better with a nicer background, these don't have a very good contrast as the background looks grey. I would prefer it to be a much darker black, although this is fixable through editing I don't want to change it too much because the subject is wearing black and this mightn't look very good.

This is the example of slow sync photography that we were shown in class, I really like this because even in the slow sync you can still see the facial features of the subject. I think the photographer probably used a faster shutter speed than me to get this effect. 

Slow sync

Slow sync flash: using your flash with a slow shutter speed. It helps you keep your subject sharp while capturing motion or a dark background.

Equipment:
Light source (in a studio)
Tripod
Light meter
Plain dark background 
Snoot
Reflector
Modelling light

Slow sync is used to take photographs of movement, whilst keeping the subject sharp so that the audience can see the facial features etc. I really think that this shoot works very well because we can definitely see the movement, in some of my photographs I think that it doesn't look very good, for example, the photograph directly below, it doesn't really show movement, it just looks like a shadow of a person in the background, I think this works best if your subjects move a lot, children might be a good subject for this technique. Children tend to move around a lot and this technique might be able to show it well.

Shoot One - Work Diary

For this shoot, me and my friends went to London to go to the Great British Summer Time festival, I thought that this would be a great opportunity to take photographs of my friends.

Aperture: 5

Shutter Speed: 1/1000

ISO: 200

This is my best photograph from the shoot, I think I framed it really well and the background is quite interesting, I am glad I decided not to use a smaller depth of field because I really think that the background adds to the photo. The subject of this photograph is laughing and I am very happy that I caught this because it makes the photograph a lot more interesting than if the subject was deadpan.

Aperture: 5

Shutter Speed: 1/500

ISO: 200

This is the worst photo that I took whilst out. I don't like the background of the photograph because it is just a fence, I think it is incredibly boring, I also don't like the cloudy sky because the other photographs have a much clearer sky. 

Progression:

I am really happy with this shoot, but next time I would like to take photographs of more people, I only really got photographs of two people, so next time I want some more variety. Also I would like to look at taking photographs in pretty locations like this.

Wide Angle and Close Up - Image bank

I like this photograph because it shows a lot of colour, red and green are opposite on the colour wheel so they compliment each other quite well. I think that the photograph looks really good, all the droplets on the plant are very detailed and they all reflect light, this definitely shows close up well, although it doesn't really show wide angle.

I love this photograph because it is showing both wide angle and close up photography, I love the simpleness of this, it isn't very busy like the photo below is, I think the contrast between the blue sky and the grey seal looks really good. I love all the detail in this as it doesn't have a really small depth of field.

This photograph shows both wide angle and close up photography, we can tell because the head of the frog is unnaturally big compared to its body, I think that this effect works really well on animals and people, rather than on objects. I don't think that this type of photography would be very good for my work as I don't want to do wide angle photography, I want to capture peoples emotions and sticking a camera in someones face probably wouldn't make that easy.

Blur - Final Images

Location Portraiture - Work Diary

This is my best photograph, I really like the candid moment that I caught in this image, even though it isn't very flattering to the subject of the photo. I think that it is very well lit unlike some of my other images, I would definitely like to re-do this shoot because I didn't get to go to different places like I wanted due to time constraints. Next time I will go to both urban and rural places to get a larger variety of photos.

This is my worst photograph from the shoot, it is way to overexposed and the subject: George, is mid movement so it doesn't look good at all, I did notice that it was overexposed so I did get quite a few good images from this shoot, however I would like to go out and do this shoot again because I don't feel like I got enough time, I didn't do many photos in different places. 

Progression:

Next time I will go out with a few friends around my hometown as there is a much larger contrast between urban and rural areas.

I didn't use the tripod for every single photograph which may have affected the final images as it meant they weren't straight. I want to go to at least 5 different places for my shoot as I believe that these images are all too similar. They were taken around the same area and I don't think you can tell that they are different really. 

Camera controlls

F stops:

2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11, 16, 22, 32, 64

A low F stop has a shallow depth of field

A high F stop has a wide depth of field 

Shutter Speed:

30", 15", 8", 4", 2", 1", 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/15, 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/500, 1/1000

ISO:

100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, 6400, 12800, Hi1

Critical and Contextual analysis

Fine art photography is photography created in accordance with the vision of the artist.

Fine art photography is a visual art which products are to be appreciated primarily or solely for their imaginative, aesthetic, or intellectual content.

Punctum: the thing in an image that draws the eye like the baton and the badge in the image below
Studium: the aesthetics of an image, what makes it attractive, how it is lit etc
Connotation: the implied meaning of the image
Denotation: the literal meaning of the image

In this image we are looking at two boys playing in the Lodz Ghetto which is a ghetto in Poland. It is where a lot of Jewish people lived before they were taken to concentration camps. This photograph was taken in the 1940's during the second world war, when there was a stigma around Jewish people, especially in Germany.

The photograph is of two Jewish children playing, Grossman directed his camera to children playing in the streets and to people working, he wanted to show emotion there rather than just on stage where he previously took photographs. Grossman wanted the world to understand what happened in the ghetto so he took photographs as testimony to what happened so that the whole world could understand, without language barriers.

The connotation of this photograph is that they have been born into this hierarchy, believing this is the right way to behave and that they are lesser than the Germans. The boy wearing the uniform is dressed alike to a Nazi, he is wearing a badge like the Nazis did and he is holding a baton to show control and power over the other child. We think these are the punctums of this image, the photograph would be completely different without the baton and the badge, it would have no negative connotations. This could signify that the way that children are raised changes how they act later in life, for example someone who is raised hating Jewish people might always have some hatred towards them, even if they are living in a more accepting society, this is similar to the hatred LGBT+ people face, although the majority of young people are accepting, a lot of older people and many of their children show a lot of homophobia still.

The denotations of this image is that it shows one child being in charge of the other, they are probably just playing dress up and it is very innocent for them as they are young and don't understand, however for the adults it is probably quite upsetting seeing children that are so used to this kind of controlling violence. It could be seen as dark humour, because the children don't know how hurtful this could've been. The audience might've been made to believe that one of the children are German, because of the contrast between the two, one of the boys is wearing a uniform whilst the other is wearing normal clothes.

Before he took photographs of the people in the grotto, he took photo's of a show that had come to visit, he was an amateur photographer then, he decided to try and take more photographs and when he developed the images that he had taken at the stage show, 'he was astonished by the power of his photographs, he had actually succeeded in arresting men in motion.' He then decided to take his camera to the streets to capture emotions among the children playing in the streets and the labourers working in the factories.

'His photographs gained a measure of respect, and Mendel received recognition as an artist-photographer. He was approached to make an album of the Jewish children living in the grotto.

How has your research informed your knowledge of life in the Jewish grottos:

I didn't actually know much of the Jewish grottos before reading the Mendel Grossman essay on the holocaust research project website. I only really knew about the concentration camps, by reading this essay and another one about the Lodz grotto in general, I know much more about the conditions there than I did before, the Lodz grotto was created in 1939, the majority of the people living there were from the surrounding areas, however in later years, people were taken there from other European countries like Germany and Berlin.

How has your research helped you in recognising photography as a documentary tool:

It has helped me recognise photography as a documentary tool because I have learnt a lot from these photographs, previously I thought that filming something would be better but I think that photography can work really well because you can focus on a specific moment in time.

Location portraiture - straight images

Focus on the subject and not the background, make sure the eyes are sharp and in focus
200 to 400 IS