Planning

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

Props – I will be using the natural environment such as trees and overgrown areas along with people and a rundown building.

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.  Saviours hospital

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

Concept – I hope to take photographs of the secrets that are the abandoned hospital and the overgrown areas around it whilst taking inspiration from Emmanuel Tecles

My Response

Contact Sheet

Edits

My Favourite Photograph

This photograph was taken with the flash on. This allowed me to create contrast between the shadows and the highlights within the photograph. I used a flash as the environment that I was taking photographs in was dark. Along with the flash I used an ISO of 400 to brighten up the photograph and a shutter speed of 1/40. For aperture I used a shallow depth of field, as this created a slight blurred effect in the background in order to separate the background and foreground.

In this photograph I used a natural colour scheme consisting of yellows and browns. This helped to convey a sense of natural decomposition. There is quite a 3D effect in this photograph due to the use of the flash and the low depth of field as the foreground and background have been separated. The tonal range in the photograph is fairly dark which creates a more mysterious photograph.

I took this photograph outside of the abandoned St. Saviours hospital – I chose this location due to the mystery and secrets about it. A lot of the area is overgrown and worn down so I decided to capture photographs of the disintegration of the area. This photograph in particular looks at a mysterious and dark atmosphere. It looks at the traces of the mystery of the area and the nostalgic history behind it. In this photograph I attempted to bring mystery and a sense of exploration into it in order to show that the building has many secrets about it that remain untouched in the abandoned area.