Shoot Plan

WHAT: This shoot is about exploring colour and architecture out in the world. I will be looking for the colour in architecture or in other forms. This will involve exploring for colourful buildings, looking for unusual compositions and colours that aren’t usually seen in their setting.

WHERE/WHEN: I am going to go down to Greve de Lecq and St Ouens bay because there are quite a lot of colourfull buildings, especially Greve de Lecq. I will go in the middle of the day to get harsh shadows as I think this will work well with the theme

HOW: I am going to use a small aperture for this shoot as I want to show a depth of field rather that using a shallow focus. There will be lots of light outside which will allow me to have a fast shutter speed and keep the ISO down. I will also use a deadopan tecnique for a lot of the images

EQUIPMENT: I will be using similar equipment for this shoot as the other ones. I will be using my Canon 70d and 18-55 kit lens. This will give me more versitility as I can zoom in or out to help frame the image. I may my 35mm prime lens but it will probably be much harder to frame my shots because I will have to move around more to get my subject in the right framing.

Contact sheet

Overall I wasn’t too happy with this shoot, I found a few good locations where there were nice colours but nothing that was really similar to Julian Schulze’s images. Anyway I got a few good images. In lightroom I went through and flagged the good ones with the white flagg and rejected some of the definite bad ones with the black flag.

Edit Process

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Best Images / Evaluation

I like these images because they are colourful and I accomplished what I set out to do. I felt that I successfully captured photos of buildings and architecture that were colourful and also had colours that were bright and incongruent. However, I feel that I could have done much better and this is far from my best work. With better planning I think I could have achieved much better results, therefore I would like to improve on these images by doing another shoot.

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Looking at Julian’s images, I have managed to resemble his style for example these images share some similar characteristics. The framing is similar, both images are colourful and include windows. However, what makes Schulze’s images unique and different to mine are that they have a surreal quality, they look almost fake but you can tell they are real.

Case Study

Julian Schulze is a german photographer who takes a lot of abstract and surreal photos. He states that he is ‘always on the go to find inspiring architecture’ . His style of photography is very unique. He looks for interesting architecture that encompass a lot of colour. His images are also often symmetrical and feature geometric shapes, many of his photos are shot in a deadpan style and feature a windows in many pictures. He likes to travel and be constantly travelling, documenting what he sees and the way he views it. Looking at his work, you can instantly see that there is a lot of colour, pretty much all his images are vibant and include one, two or three colours. He doesn’t overdo his photos by using loads of colours.

Analaysis

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NATURAL vs MAN MADE: both images encompass man made objects as they are architectural images of buildings. There is no natural elements to either of the images.

REPETITION/RHYTHM: None of the images show much repetition apart from the right image which has repetition of the redbricks.

DEPTH: The image on the left shows a lot more depth than the right image. The image on the right was taken in a deadpan style which means straight on, because it is a picture of a wall which is flat the image feels very shallow, also nomatter what aperture is used (apart from a tiltshift lens), the whole image would remain infocus because everything in the image is the same distance from the sensor. The image in the left show depth as it shows 3dimensions, it has parts of the building from different anlges to show depth. The image was also taken using a small aperture as everything in the image is in focus.

TONE: tone refers to the values of light and dark areas in the image, the left image has a lot more contrast meaning that there are very dark areas and very light areas. The right image has a lot less contrast.

LIGHT: The lighting in the right image is much softer than the lighting in the right image. I can tell this because there are soft fading shadows underneath the windowsills in the right image, whereas in the left image has hard shadows cast from the other buildings. This means that the left image was taken in the middle of the day with less clouds and harsh sun light, and the right image was taken on an overcast day with more diffused light.

LINE: The left image has more lines going in different directions, the lines from the building lead my eyes to the window at the top. The right images has different lines because there isn’t much depth, but there are lines in the bricks.

FRAMING/CROPPING: the framing in both images have been thought about and framed to a certain desire. The right image is very symmetrical and has been framed to give equal room either side of each window. The left image has been framed to look almost like a 3d axis.