These are the final images from this photo shoot. They aren’t as good as I wanted them to be, but I have learnt from this photoshoot so I won’t make the same mistakes in the next shoot.
First photo shoot – final images
Daily Archives: March 15, 2019
Filters
Photo-shoot Plan
Where: I will be taking photos along my house off of Beaumont road.
What: I will be photographing various barriers including fences, stop signs, no entry signs etc. I will attempt to include an aspect of Paul Graham’s style into these photos.
When: I will be taking these photos at mid-day in order to produce a flat lighting which will allow for more options when editing the photos.
PHOTO ANALYSIS
Mood board of The Boyle Family’s road and line pieces:
Road works
Technical;
This image is represented in a much darker way rather than just the use of daylight, as the appearance seems much darker and gloomier compared to just a bad and dark weathered day. I think the use of filters were used to present a more texturised and provide a different feeling and emotion towards the image. The aperture used for this image is represented deep, sharp, focused lens due to the raw and precise lines and textured within the image. Due to the darkness of the image its suggest that the exposure is much lower as there is little room for excess light being presented. When considering the color balance and temperature this image to me portrays a much warmer feeling due to the darker colors being filtered in and lack of natural day light.
Visual;
When considering the presentation of the image and the layout it has a strong feeling of organization with the yellow line being perfectly parallel to the pavement this provide an idea of a symmetrical presentation. However the uneven shapes on the pavement set a less aesthetically pleasing vision due to the harsh textured cracked and antithesis of black and white cracks made throughout the tiles. This image clearly shows a high level of textures due to the shows and filters used to emphasis the key details. When looking at this image it is evident that the eye view is from above and give the representation of looking down at the ground through the camera.
Contextual;
Conceptual;
When The Boyle Family first started creating images under a name together they had a similar pattern that they followed and a particular vision they continued to contribute to when adding to the collection following the additional ideas. When producing image, the Boyle Family’s idea is not have a focused subject but aims to make art that does not exclude anything as a potential subject. Over the time this has included things like: earth, air, fire and water, animals, vegetables, minerals, insects, water creatures etc. In this case I believe this case to be concentrating on possibly the idea of earth looking in different types of ground with the different textures portraying different feeling towards the image.
Times of the day: Photoshoot 1
To respond to journeys and pathways I decided to photograph the sky throughout the day every hour so I would be able to capture the different positions of the sun as well as the movement of the clouds and the colours of the sky. I set my camera onto a tripod and placed it near a window so I could capture several images of the sky from inside my house. The viewer can then see the gradual progression from day to night from one viewpoint.
This project relates to the theme since it’s the journey of the day from sunrise to sunset. I started taking images at 11:00 am and finished around 7:00pm. Once the time got closer to 5pm, I decided to capture more images frequently since this time of the day is when the sky changes the most in terms of colour.
I decided to create a gif with these images on the website GIPHY to show how the sky changes throughout the day in a quick video that continues in a loop. I decided to have each image show up for 0.2 seconds to create a slideshow.
Times when an image was taken
- 11:20 am
- 11:40 am
- 12:00 pm
- 2:50 pm
- 3:30 pm
- 4:00 pm
- 4:30 pm
- 5:20 pm
- 6:00 pm
- 6:20 pm
- 6:40 pm
- 6:50 pm
- 7:00 pm
- 7:10 pm
Evaluation
Creating a gif to present these images was a good idea since the viewer can rapidly see the movement of the sun and the clouds. The gif also turned out smooth when played since the images were all taken from one angle. Taking images through the window helped to frame the sky.
Future Photo Shoot Idea
An idea for a future photo shoot is to take several images throughout the day of the tides so the viewer can see the extreme change from low tide to high tide in Jersey. Jersey may be a small island, but it can boast some of the biggest tides in the world. When it recedes, the immense body of water seems to melt into the horizon, only to surge back to shore with alarming speed.