For my third shoot I used the same location so my photos appear more seamless when looking at my project as a whole. I also made sure to shoot around the same time of day as my previous shoot so the natural lighting was the same. This was around midday which gave me the maximum amount of lighting allowing my photos to come out clearer. This also kept similarity of my subject’s shadow, a subtle aspect that would of made the two shoots significantly different when editing and tying all my photos together. My second subject was more expressive with hand gestures, allowing me to capture sets of pictures just focused on the hands. Throughout my shoot I tried to capture my subject from different distances, from long shots to extreme close up’s of my subjects face to capture movement in facial expressions. One set back while capturing face expressions was the intensity of light. This meant that my subject was squinting from the sun and making her facial expressions less and more rigid. I managed to capture everything I set out to achieve and hopefully the editing process will be the same as I intend.
The point of my project is pointing out the smallest or most interesting characteristics of animation in individuals that would otherwise go unnoticed during one’s everyday interaction with other people. My plan for my photo shoots is to record different subjects when they talk walk and sit. The idea is to capture the mannerisms, gestures and facial expressions that a person makes while they interact with someone. The movements that people make are not consciously done. Instead, the movements a person makes are developed over time from mirroring people they are repetitively around and from self expression.
Following up on my first shoot, I devised a photo shoot that captured the movement of walking, talking and sitting. I set up my subject against a plain wall and asked them to speak about anything they liked. I made sure I engaged in the conversation to keep their movement fluid in terms of mannerisms and facial expressions. At the beginning of the shoot, getting my subject to speak and act naturally was hard because I wanted to capture their movement in its rawest form; the subliminal movements and characteristics everyone performs. I made sure I eased them into conversation to help them forget they were performing in front of a camera and to avoid forced movement or no movement at all. This was hard because of the nature of my concept and the shoot. By putting a camera in front of my subject it made them suddenly aware and conscious of their way of being and how they moved when interacting with someone. The same issue applied to getting my subject to walk and sit as the camera served as a reminder that I was recording their movement, which applied pressure of containing their natural state of being as they were aware of every movement they made that they usually wouldn’t be aware of. These issues eventually resided but watching someone conscious of their movement was as interesting as when they aren’t conscious of it.
For this I have experimented with layering. To do this I have tried to create a new image by layering other images on to of each other, aligning the face to try and make a new one with the characteristics of the other people. by doing this I feel I have created a new story for a new person.
I found inspiration for this from Lewis Bush’s project in jersey ‘Trading Zones’. which he did for the faces of employees at financial buildings in jersey to see what the average person looked like at each firm. By doing this I believe you can find the average look of a person at the car boots.
For the presentation of my final photographs in my exam the first frame up I will be presenting will be an A3 and two A4 photos framed together. I believe that this is an effective way to display my photos as it allows the viewer to compare these similar, and busy, stores. I have used similar methods to display my photographs on past projects and think that is a good display. I believe that this represents the ‘Variation and Similarities’ theme well.
For the second image I have displayed it by its self. I feel that this is a good way to display it as its quite minimalist Photo which tells you a lot about the person who is also quite minimalist, wearing block colour clothing. By putting this image by its self it enhances the minimalist feel which I believe is quite visually pleasing.
For my final image I have put two images one on top one the other. I believe this allows the viewer to compare the two images on this display such as a difference between what the young own compared older generations. By comparing the images I believe that this follows the ‘Variations and Similarities’ theme.
The images below are my final outcomes. I believe that these represent the theme of ‘Variation and Similarities’. I have got four A4 and two A3 images which I feel reflect the standard of work and experimentation have done with these images.
I got a selection of images from the magazine printed to show an alternative outcome. I started by cropping the printed images so there was only 1cm of white around them, this meant I wasted less foam board. I then used spray mount on the back of the all the close up photos and stuck them to a white foam board sheet before cutting the excess white areas off. I then layered the small square images on top of the large image, the foams board helped the stand out from the background and gave it a modern and clean look.
These two sets of images could be displayed individually however i think they create a greater impact when placed together helping to highlight the difference in details and tones. This set up could be with images of different people helping to display a broad range of ‘ real beauty’
For the other images I printed I decided to display them in simple black window mounts, they were already detailed images so I wanted to keep it simple and help to bring out the darker contrasting colours from the pastel images using thick dark frames.
I chose to put these two images together in a window mount because they have a corresponding themes of the white line face structure. The wide black frame again helps to pull out the dark areas in the image from the bright background.
For the final two images I decided to frame them separately due to them having different dimensions which would have stood out in a window mount. These images show are both re constructed images which have already been printed adapted and re scanned. Their quality is slightly distorted but this helps with the theme of questioning our need for perfection as humans.
