The plan that I have is that I will go to a local church and then I will set my camera up on a high tripod overlooking the pews in the pulpit. Then I will have multiple different poses that I will take in the pews and then I will have a friend take a photo using a remote trigger so that the camera doesn’t shake and the photoshop will be easier later. I will set the aperture to be about f/5 so that I will be able to have the same focus point for all the photos and I will still be in focus regardless of where I sit in the pews. I will also manually set the exposure so that there was no difference in colour. I also took multiple different outfits so that it would not look like I am just sitting in different places.
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Paul M Smith artist study – Tableaux
Smith originally studied Fine Art, between 1991 and 1995 at Coventry University and as part of his course he undertook a research project into contemporary art which included living on an Aboriginal reserve for four months. After completing his degree at Coventry he completed a master’s degree in Photography at the Royal College of Art. During this time he examined the meaning and construction of masculinity, concentrating on the cultural and visual creation of various alpha male identities. He has subjected various forms of heroic behaviour to incredible scrutiny. Smith has travelled from ‘Soldier’ via ‘Action Hero’ to arrive in his current body of work, the forensic vision of death presented as a new series called ‘Impact’. -Wikipedia
Tableaux Mood-board
Street photography — Artist comparison
I think that the portrait photo that I produced is very similar to the style of Winogrand because it has the main features of his work, i.e. the main subject in the fore-ground and shows the street and the surrounding area to.
The other two images have elements of Winogrand in them, they are inspired by his work, but instead of having a person as the front point and main focus one has a shoe and shows the background and the setting of the street, and the other shows the opposite to the others with the background being out of focus and the main feature, being the bin, being thrown far out of focus.
To get all of the shots that I needed for this I did use a film camera like I talked about but I didn’t have the ability to get some black and white film of the grade I wanted in time and it would have taken too long to get developed.
Street Photography — Final Images
These are my final images, I would have liked to have more but because I was shooting on film and the focus is completely manual an that I had the aperture as low as I could, the depth of field was less forgiving. Both of these lead to some images not being focused correctly and then not being composed in the way that I wanted them to be.
Street Photography — Editing
For the editing of my photos I used photoshop to raise the exposure levels on the photos and raise the contrast levels I also brightened the shadows, the reason that I did this is because I was using a 200iso roll of film this meant that I was limited with the amount of exposure that I could input without slowing down the shutter speed dramatically as I didn’t have a tripod or a mono-pod.
Street Photography — Photoshoot
These were the main images from the photoshoot and some turned out as intended some had issues with exposure and focus. I then chose my final images from this and then took them to photoshop to edit them.
My main goal for the street photography project was to show the character of the roads and streets of Jersey. I tried to do this by having a main subject in the frame, mainly a person or part of a person. The reason that I did this is because it makes the viewer focus mainly on the front subject and then there is still a noticeable amount of detail that can be seen in the background.
Street photography — Shoot plan
My plan is to go to the main high street and then find someone interesting looking and then get the style of photo that Winogrand would take. By that I mean have a subject in the shot and have it clear that they are the main subject but still have a large portion of the frame being the street. I will also be using my film camera either shooting on black and white or colour because that is what he used (not colour) and I am trying to create a response to his work.
Street photography — Artist study Garry Winogrand
Garry Winogrand (14 January 1928 – 19 March 1984) was an American street photographer from the Bronx, New York, known for his portrayal of U.S. life and its social issues, in the mid-20th century. Though he photographed in Los Angeles and elsewhere, Winogrand was essentially a New York photographer.
Photography curator, historian, and critic John Szarkowski called Winogrand the central photographer of his generation.Critic Sean O’Hagan, writing in The Guardian in 2014, said “In the 1960’s and 70’s, he defined street photography as an attitude as well as a style – and it has laboured in his shadow ever since, so definitive are his photographs of New York.” Phil Coomes, writing for BBC News in 2013, said “For those of us interested in street photography there are a few names that stand out and one of those is Garry Winogrand, whose pictures of New York in the 1960’s are a photographic lesson in every frame.”
The reason that I like Garry’s work is because what he does is take photos of unsuspecting people who are in some way interesting, here are some examples of his work:
Street photography — mood-board
