Work record 2-Liverpool street
Plan for shoot
This shoot was based upon my second and third preparatory shoots. This is because I thought that this area had a lot of potential for me to take images that are similar to the ones in the preparatory shoots but have been improved upon due to me having a tripod. So like my first exam shoot i wanted to show the development within this shoot from my earlier ones but i also wanted to take unique photos so that my exam shoots are better than my property shoots because i should have progressed with taking unexpected perspectives of buildings since then.
AO1: Develop ideas through sustained and focused investigations informed by contextual and other sources, demonstrating analytical and critical understanding.
Photographers influence-Ernst Haas
I think that in this shoot it is clear that i have mostly based my work upon the style of photography that Ernst Haas used. This is because i have used a lot of the common themes that he had used within some of his photos. Reflections as a common theme in some of Ernst's photos in New York for example the photo below. What i have also done with this exam shoot i had not really explored that much with my preparatory shoots, even though i did have evidence of reflections in some of my preparatory shoots, i hadn't taken as many images of full reflections of buildings like i did with this shoot. To make my work link even closer to Ernst Haas i edited my images of reflections by adding more clarity and contrast so that the reflections of the buildings are more visible. I think that Ernst Haas has had a great influence on my work with the more experimental side because by using reflections in my work i have added to an unexpected perspective. Also Ernst' work has influenced me with my editing as i used a mirror like edit which is basically reflections.
Contact sheet
AO3: Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to intentions, reflecting critically on work and progress.
My intentions for this shoot was to take photos of a similar style to the photos that i took in my second and third shoots and add more influence from artist Ernst Haas and to show how my work has developed since taking those shoots. I think that the straight images that i ahem selected do show a clear link to Ernst Haas' work as reflections are visible in several of the photos. Especially in the eighth straight image. In my preparatory shoots i didn't take a photo like my eighth straight image, so i found that my work was not directly linked or influenced by Ernst Haas' work because i didn't have any photos of full building reflections. However because of this photo and others from this shoot i can clearly show the link between mine and the artists work. I think that as a whole the straight images from this shoot do all work together and are a cohesive body of work because the majority of them are from a low angle, similar to my first exam shoot and my first and second preparatory shoots. So i think that i have shown my progression though using similar angles and perspectives for some of my photos.
Straight images
How i edited my straight images
To
enhance the potential of my straight images I used the camera raw editing
section on Photoshop to tweak certain aspects of my photographs. Whilst I was
taking the photographs on my shoot, I realised the majority of my photos were partially
over exposed, even though I would change shutter speed sometimes due to the
direction of the sun the surrounding area around the buildings would be very
white. So to overcome overexposure in the photos I would normally decrease the
exposure, but I would have to balance the lighting of the photo out by
decreasing the blacks so that the photo would not be too dark or adjusting the
highlights and shadows on the photo so that the lighting was still natural and
not too dark or light. I would also increase the clarity to emphasis the
texture, detail and contrast of the image. I also increased the clarity on my photos
because after doing research I realised that adding more clarity and contrast
to photos of buildings and architecture in cities like London was a common
theme that some photographers would use. And so because my shoots for this
component are based on London architecture and buildings I thought that it
would be beneficial for my photographers to use a common editing technique for
photographs like the ones I have taken.
AO2 Explore and select appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes, reviewing and refining ideas as work develops.
For this exam shoot this i used my Nikon D3100 camera that i used in my previous preparatory shoots, along with a camera RAW file instead of jpeg so that I could capture better quality images and so that i could edit my photos in more detail. I also ensured that i brought a tripod with me for this shoot, so that the photos can be steady and it would help me to capture some different angles and perspectives that i hadn't been able to achieve whilst holding the camera. For example because i used the tripod i was able to get lower angles that captured the whole building, and slanted angles. Just like my first exam shoot, i did have some trouble with getting the right exposure, even though i was on manual mode, i found that the majority of my photos were over exposed, even though i would change the shutter speed, but i couldn't change the aperture because i needed at around f/20 to have a large depth of field for the tall buildings. As usual i used manual mode with an aperture of f/22 which would allow everyone in the frame to be in focus, an ISO of 100 and normally a shutter speed of 1/30s. However due to the photos being over exposed i edited them to fix the exposure and the white levels using photoshop and the camera file Raw filter for more precise editing.
Edits
I edited this photo this way because i wanted to create the same effect that a mirror would, because i have based some of my work on the influence of Ernst Haas and reflections, especially in this shoot, i wanted to create an edit that develops on the idea of reflections. So to create this edit i used photoshop and i created a blank file so that i could place these four duplicate images on. Before i actually duplicated i had to crop this image so that there wouldn't be a lot of free space in the image which means the reflection wouldn't have been as effective as it is now that its cropped. So after i cropped and duplicated the image, i set up some guide lines on the empty file so that it would be easier for me to make the mirror like lines. I then flipped two of the duplicated horizontally and then i flipped one of them by 180 degrees so that it was upside down and flipped. Then i rotated another one by 180 degrees and moved it next to the other duplicate. After all four of them were lined up i had to crop the image so the plan background was not visible. I think that this edit is relevant to unexpected perspectives because a mirror of a building is not a normal everyday expected siting.
AO4
I think that overall this exam shoot has shown the development of photos that i are similar to photos i had taken during my second and third preparatory shoots and i have greatly been influenced by artist Ernst Haas. I think that unlike my previous exam shoot which was more based upon the influence of Alexander Rodchenko, i based this shoot on Ernst Haas, which i didn't really do with my preparatory shoots. So basically this exam shoot is a more developed version of my second and third shoot, because i included reflections as a common theme throughout the shoot and in my editing. I think that with this shoot, i was more experimental in with the way that i edited because i had not previously created the type of edit i did in this shoot, in my preparatory shoots. If I was to improve this shoot i would try and take a photo of a differs type of reflection that shows a building. So for instance a puddle which would show a building if it was close and tall enough. Or maybe i could have used an actual mirror whilst taking the photos.
(Preparatory shoots)
(Exam shoot)
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