This shoot focuses on steel and its texture. I have looked at contrasting man-made building faces with natural granite rock faces in my previous shoots. This has led to me thinking, as I was focusing on the material of granite, it may be interesting to contrast man-made structures with eachother by focusing on how the materials used to make houses have changed overtime. Traditionally granite has been used in Jersey but as office blocks, such as the international finance centre, have been developed there has been an increase in more ‘modern’ looking materials, such as steel. Therefore I have captured close-up photographs of steel objects to capture its texture, which by itself makes for quite a boring photograph, but I will experiment with layering the building faces over the steel. Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon and because of its high tensile strength and low cost, it is a major component used in buildings, infrastructure, tools, ships, cars and other items. Since it is used so much in the world around us, as granite is, I believe that it is important for me to include the exploration of this material in my project.

The pictures that I have captured in this shoot have focused on the texture of steel and have been captured with the intentions of using it in an abstract approach. The scratches and reflections in the steel create different shades and bring the texture out in the material so I believe that this approach may work well when it comes to using a double exposure approach. Please see my next post ‘Layering Building Faces Over Steel’ for the edits resulting from this shoot and analysis of the work.