Planning

Task – Take 150-200 photos exploring the theme of exploration under the key work ‘secrets’

Props – I will be using the natural environment including the trees and plants that I come across as props and possibly people in some of the photographs.

Camera Settings – Due to deciding to do the shoot in the dark will have to use flash in most of my photographs in order to illuminate the subjects enough. I will be using this with an ISO of 800 and a shutter speed of 1/40.

Lighting – I will be using strong torches or flash from the camera in order to capture these photographs.

Location – St. Catherines Woods

Context – I am looking at the theme of exploration for my AS level externally set assignment.

Concept – I hope to take photographs of the woods in ways that would not be usually seen and to show the secrets that the dark can contain whilst taking inspiration from Emmanuel Tecles.

My Response

Contact Sheets

 

My Top 5 / Edits

My Favourite Photograph

This photograph was taken using flash as the area was dark with no light in the area. This allowed me to illuminate the subjects of my choice and create contrast between the background and foreground. I used a shutter speed of 1/40 with an ISO of 800 in order to make sure the picture was bright enough to be seen – this helped to further emphasise the gap between foreground and background.

The colours within this photograph provide more contrast with the background – the bright vibrant colour of the pondweeds contrasts with the dull colour of the tree and the surroundings to create an interesting photograph. There is a wide tonal range in this photograph ranging from the highlights in the tree and pondweed to the purely black background, this helps to focus on the subjects of the photograph. There is a  3D effect in this photograph as you can clearly see the plants upfront as the background fades into darkness. I positioned the tree in line of one of the vertical lines of the rule of thirds in order to create a more interesting photograph.

This photograph was taken at night in St. Catherines Woods. It shows contrast between living plants and dead plants in an eery environment. The concept of this photograph is that it may be something that many people will see and walk past every day but when the subject is illuminated at night it shows another side of the view – almost its secret. It shows off the different branches of the dead tree individually and brings out the colour in the pondweeds to create a different environment.