Connecting Essay 1

The photograph that I have chosen to study from the internet is this one of beautiful golden brown leaves on the floor, depth is used in this photograph on a minor scale and the photograph was taken through the leaves rather than from above. The blurring of the photograph draws the attention of the viewer to the middle of the photograph and adds emphasis to the main area of the photograph.

The second photograph in this post is one I took myself, I put the camera low on the floor to take the photo through the leaves rather than on top of the leaves, the background and foreground are blurred to add emphasis to the middle of the photograph as the leaves in the centre are the main focus rather than the trees and bushes in the background or the grass in the foreground.

These two photos are very similar and connect because they both use depth to draw attention to the main subject which is leaves. Then, also in both photos the technique of blurring can be found which adds emphasis to the subject. Another similarity or connection between these two photographs is that because they both show orange/brown/golden leaves they both have sentiments of Autumn Colours.

Location and Studio Contrast Straight Images

Location 1 Edits:

Location 2 Edits:  

Studio 1 Edits: 

Studio 2 Edits :

Location and Studio Contrast Work Diary

Evaluation - Location 1 & 2
When we studied contrast on location shoots we studied it on two separate occasions therefore I have two different shoots. On the first contrast shoot I found the topic fairly easy as we had never studied contrast before therefore I noticed everything that was different and contrasting. I found contrast very difficult as almost anything can be contrasted but how its represented in a photograph is extremely important, by the time we did the second location contrast shoot I had found my way a little bit and discovered exactly which types of contrast worked best in context to our brief. Here are a few of my favourite photos from location shoots 1 and 2… 
Shoot 1: 

Shoot 2:

Progression - Location 1 & 2
A progression idea I had for location contrast was to focus on the contrast between inside and outside for example I wanted to show the contrast between the warm safety of the inside areas and the cold harshness of the outside.

Evaluation - Studio 1 & 2
When we studied contrast in the studio I had plenty of ideas what to shoot from contrasts in shoes, clothes, hair colour, eye colour etc. On the first contrast shoot I did struggle with ideas more than the second because in the first shoot I focused more on colour contrasts whereas in the second shoot I thought more about the dimensions of contrasts. Despite the fact that the brief of contrast is extremely vague I still managed to get a good amount of photographs which represented contrast. Here are a few of my favourite photographs from studio shoots 1 and 2…
Shoot 1: 

Shoot 2:

Progression - Studio 1 & 2
A progression idea I had for studio contrast was to do with colour, I had the idea of having people completely drenched in opposite colours on the colour wheel against a plain crisp white background to emphasize the contrast between them.

Walk 2 Straight Images

Autumn Colours:

Journey: 

Back of Head:

Walk 2 Work Diary

Evaluation
My photography session for Walk 2 was very similar to walk 1 in many ways because we had to shoot autumn colours, journey and back of head shots again. Despite the fact I have already shot these topics once I still found it interesting to shoot because we walked a different route therefore we had a different focus. I really enjoyed shooting autumn colours because it took me back to our formal elements study where we looked at colour and texture which in my mind are very prominent in the autumn colours topic. I also enjoyed journey for a similar reason, journey gave us the opportunity to shoot candid shots of things that should be moving for example I caught birds taking flight and cars driving on camera for this shoot. I also enjoyed back of head shots because they gave me the opportunity to focus on filling the frame of the camera which most portrait photographers do. Some of my favourite photographs from this shoot were...

Progression
For progression on walk 2 my progression ideas are the same as walk 1 in that for autumn colours I would like to try drying and hardening leaves then sculpting them and for journey I would like to focus on public transport and arrivals and departures, not just in airports as I mentioned in the progression section of walk 1 but train stations and bus stations in both privileged and unprivileged areas.

Walk 1 Straight Images

Autumn Colours: 

Journey:

Walk 1 Work Diary

Evaluation
My photography session for Walk 1 was very interesting, the task was to shoot autumn colours and journey. These are two quite conflicting topics however I found them both relatively easy, I really enjoyed shooting autumn colours as it gave me the chance to photograph a lot of nature which I had been looking forward to. I actually really enjoyed this topic because it enabled me to think about lots of different areas of nature and the colours within them. I really enjoyed shooting journey as well as autumn colours because I feel like journey can be taken from so many angles for example nature can be used to show journey, as well as people and vehicles. These are some of my favourite photos from journey… 

And these from autumn colours…

Progression
A progression idea I had involving autumn colours was to focus on people with the autumn colours so people playing in leaves but also I would like to sculpt leaves using dried glue then photograph that. A progression idea involving journey would be photographs studying airports, unposed street photography of the arrivals gate and departures lounge at major airports.