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For this photoshoot I had to choose these two images as I could not decide between them.

I chose these images as they are striking and dramatic which is exactly what I wanted to achieve from the beginning. Here my first image is full of different yellows and browns which ties into the chocolate theme, and helps to remind me of famous chocolatiers. Whereas in the second image, their is a variety of vivid colours which help to represent all of the different items that are available to be purchased at this shop, they help to create a sort of pattern within the image. I think the “Face Spotlight” worked very successfully as they allowed the attention and the eye of the audience to be lead towards the person, despite of their busy everyday background. Overall, I feel as though both the image and the editing worked hand in hand to help create these images and I am quite happy with their outcomes.

Overall, I think that this image was successful from start to finish, I loved the idea of the frame around her as it helped to round off the image. In my opinion the definition of candid is capturing someone when they are in the middle of an action which I think I have achieved. This allows the audience to see this person in the middle of their thought processes as they are trying to get along with their day-to-day activities. Similar to Anthony Kurtz’s works, I have displayed a background, midground and foreground of food / groceries which allows the audience to see what they might be doing, which also makes the image look 3D. I wanted to stick with the fluorescent lighting used as it created a spotlight effect onto the image which I felt effectively drew the attention onto her.

Research

Contact Sheet

Editing and Image Selection

To begin editing my images, I opened up the image that I wanted to work with and instantly desaturated it, as Cartier-Bresson’s appears since he worked with an older camera, featuring black and white colours only. I feel like this also helps with the secretive and mysterious atmosphere that comes with Candid Photography.

After desaturating my images, I leveled them. I decreased the brightness and exposure, again to add to the atmosphere. I also increased the contrast to make the image appear a little darker and for the black colours to really stand out, again just as Cartier-Bresson’s images usually do.

After the first two steps, I then added noise to my images to give the impression that it is an older image, although it is not. I wanted to make my images as similar to Cartier-Bresson’s as I could and this included making the images older than they really are and adding noise helped to do this. I only really added a subtle amount of noise to my images.

Once I had done all of that, I ended the editing process of each image by cropping to the image to how I preferred it. I often cropped out un-needed background that distracted the audience from the subject.

Final Outcomes