To experiment with the different way secrets can be interpreted, I plan to explore the different reflections that can be made and the contrasting images can be made from this.

Contact Sheet 

Best Images from the shoot 

Contact Sheet

Best Images 

Best Image 

Dirk Bakker 

Dirk Bakker is a Dutch photographer based in Amsterdam, a city that he has lived in for over 30 years. He is one of the most popular users on the photo-sharing app Instagram.Dirk’s originally profession was graphic design and he worked in different companies and freelanced for over 20 years. He would mostly work on companies’ brochures, posters, branding, etc

Dirk has always had an interest in photography. As a hobby, Dirk enjoyed taking photos with his SLR camera. It was not until Instagram that his passion turned into a career. He has always been inspired by the lines, shapes, and patterns that architecture creates, and tries to capture the uniqueness in every picture he creates.

Image Analysis

This photo has been illuminated through the use of natural daylight. The bright blue of the sky creates a colour contrast between the building which has orange undertones to it. A deep depth of field has seen to be used as the whole of the image is in focus, a slightly fast shutter speed has been used.

What are Codes ? 

Codes are a system of words, letters, figures, or symbols used to represent others, especially for the purposes of secrecy. Codes within photography are also known as symbolic codes, technical codes or written codes

http://jakehicksphotography.com/

Born in Cornwall, he first discovered his love for photography when his father first gave him a camera, but his real interest in the subject began when he found that photography was the only path left for him as he had to fail at most of his academic subjects. His work could be described as bold, bright and colourful, as lighting colour is the main focus of his images

PhotoShoot

Contact Sheet 

 Best Images from the shoot 

Overall this shoot was okay but I didn’t produce the outcome of images that I wanted. So I have decided that I am not going to carry on this idea, but I will use some of the backgrounds in some of the final outcomes

Secret -Something that is kept or meant to be kept unknown or unseen by others.

For the topic of secrets, I wanted to explore mirrors and the way that they can be used to revel areas that would otherwise be left out of the shot. 

http://www.sebastianmagnani.com/

Born 1985 in a small village in Canton Valais, Switzerland, surrounded by mountains, Sebastian Magnani discovered photography whilst training as a media designer in 2006. After 5 years as a creative in an advertising agency, he decided 2011 to turn his passion into a profession. Since then he has been making a living as a photographer and visual artist, based in Zurich, Switzerland. Focused on portraits, editorials, advertising and several personal projects, like the Underdogs and Undercats, where got a lot of media attention and been published on many newspapers, magazines, websites and tv-shows around the globe. He has also won many awards such as  the GoSee Award, Stills, Gold & Public, 2015, OneEyeLand, Fine Art, Abstract, Gold, 2015,  both for his project entitled Reflection

Image Analysis

In this image, the natural lighting that is breaking through the leaves of the treetops has been used to cast light upon the floor of the forest. A shutter speed of 1/30-1/60 will have been used to capture this photograph along with an ISO of 100-200, by using these settings it allowed Sebastian to a high-resolution image with minimum grain whilst allowing plenty of light to enter the lens. The two main colours in this image, are green and brown, which gives off connations of life and death. In the reflection of the mirror, we get a glimpse, to what the top of the forest looks like, which is bright and healthy green leave deflecting off most of the natural light. Which is a contrast to what is in the rest of the frame. Which features earthy tones, of the dead leaves on the forest floor.

Allan Edward Hilton

http://www.allanedwardhinton.com/

Allan is a London based photographer, content creator, social media strategist who quit his London office job as a Digital Marketing Manager to peruse his dream of exploring the world and develop his photography skills.

H has been an early Instagram user since 2011 who has a following of 160+. He has worked with over 30+ content creation slash Instagram related social media and pr campaigns and has consulted on campaigns for TripAdvisor and Huawei Mobile.

Image Analysis

In the image above, the main focus of the image has been highlighted by the use of the natural sunlight which is coming from the left side of the frame.This image is mostly sharp but around the edge of the image, it has started to go out of focus, as on disposable camera setting such as ISO or shutter speed cannot be changed. The visual elements in this image are the colour palette, which creates a vintage look, there are several different textures within the image. This image was taken on his trip across Australia in which he decided to only take images using a disposable camera as he wanted to capture the images which where raw and wasn’t staged

 Conventions The definition of Conventions in society is behaviors and which are seen as acceptable or polite to the majority of society.

Journalism is the collecting, editing, and presenting of news material for publication or broadcast. Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism

Photojournalism employs images in order to tell a news story. It is now usually understood to refer only to still images, but in some cases, the term also refers to video used in broadcast journalism. Photojournalists create pictures that contribute to the news media and help communities connect with one other. Photojournalists must be well informed and knowledgeable about events happening right outside their door.I would use photojournalism to present a true view of today society

When researching photojournalism I came across Steve McCurry who is a highly respected photographer but had lost some of his credibility, as he regards his images as being documentary and capturing ‘the  truth’ but on closer inspection by members of the public it can be seen that his work had been digitally altered, or people have come forward to say that they where asked to be in a staged.

So to compact this problem I wanted to shoot my images on a disposable camera.

Because once the images are taken they can no longer be worked back into, so when a disposable camera is used in photojournalism the image will be the real and untouched versions.

Key Definitions 

Code – A set of conventions or sub-codes currently in use to communicate meaning. The most common is one’s spoken language, but the term can also be used to refer to any narrative form

Secret -Something that is kept or meant to be kept unknown or unseen by others.

Convention – The way in which something is usually done.

Mind Maps 

Mood Board

My first ideas for this project is to do a separate word that we have been given, one for codes, one for conventions and finally one for secrets.