This is my second shoot in relation to street photography

When out on the streets of new Zealand walking around through the center of Christchurch, The Vodafone building  had a space invaders game boy on the side of it. So from across the road you could control the screen to [lay the game. I thought this was a quite a good way of creating street photography because i had a clear focal point of my images while the environment was ever changing around it. With my camera for these images I switched between the landscape and portrait settings on the camera. I had my camera to a high shutter speed because of the ever changing urban landscape I was photographing. I has my white balance set to one of the automatic outdoor settings which created the perfect amount of contrast in my images.   

 

I chose to change to the other side of the road and capture images from behind creating  more of a story and understanding within my images.  This angle creates perspective within the images showing different view points. There are two main intentional view points for these images.  They are the two boys on the game controllers and the space invaders screen on the side of the building. The image creates a contrast with in because there is a dark and light side to the image creating a more visually interesting image. The main tonal color pallets for this image consist of a range of blues. The two boys stand out because they are on a lighter background making the viewer being drawn the them when when looking at the image.

 

You can see how modern day to day life is just passing by as the images are being taken from the visual interactions from the cars and a little girl entering the images wanting to have a go. These images are all about capturing what is naturally happening right that second, unplanned/ unstructured.



For the next images i chose to change vantage points to capture the interest of the children and what is happening with them.  To me these images turned out really well the colors are vibrant and there are no blurred images. There is a lot of vertical features within these images which create structural vantage points for the image. The buildings in the background give the image depth creating a clear flow through the image following the path of the road.



Again i moved positioning so that I could  capture the general public behind and there reactions to how the kids were doing in the games and the next lot of children waiting for there turn.

  

I chose to change angles so that i was behind the children can captured the Vodafone sign in the images. This gives the images context and gives the viewer more of an understanding as to why there are children playing giant space invaders near the side of the road. It also frames the picture crating a poster feel to the image or a advert for Vodafone. The contrast between the blue glass of the building and the red writing creates a focal point and main point of interest. 

   

I wanted to capture the close up of the children's faces I used the portrait mode on my camera with a wide zoom lens to create the close up intimate feel towards the photos. These images were taken standing about 50 m away from the kids. I feel like these images are  successful because you can see that they are clear and crisp the colors are bright and vibrant. I feel like the images create a real snap shot of what is actually going on and the children's real moods.  You can see that I have changed the zoom of the lens in the images to create different out comes and see how the zoom effects the initial image. Creating a more diverse set of images.