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Planning – Archive images
SHOOT 1 – 1st series of Archive Footage
CONCEPT: For this first series of archive footage I am going to look through the photo albums from the Jersey Mini Club. Each year there is an album of photos from events and shows that the club went to. My grandad is in a lot of those albums so I am going to look for images of him with trophies, with his car and with his friends.
WHEN/WHERE: On the Mini Club Jersey Website.
HOW/EQUIPMENT: Access to a laptop and the internet
IDEAS/MOODBOARD:
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SHOOT 2 – The garage and memories
CONCEPT: Take some images of his garage where he kept his mini highlighting details and his tools. Also the spare room where there are trophies and stuff he won. I plan to get eide establishing shots as well as ‘macro’ shots of individual details which have significance.
WHEN/WHERE: In the garage at my Nan’s house as this is where he kept the mini.
HOW/EQUIPMENT: I will set up my SL60W light with a softbox because is is quite dark in the garage. I will put it off to the side of the work bench and point it down onto the desk as this will cause some nice shadows. I will use my Sony a73 with a 70-200 or 50mm 1.8 for the details to isolate the subjects and a 35mm for widershots.
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SHOOT 3 – My Nan at the house
CONCEPT: I want to capture the details around the house where he lived, and my Nan who still lives there. I plan to get both candid and environmental portraits of my nan in her house, reading the paper, watching TV. Also the chair where my Grandad use to sit.
WHEN/WHERE: In my Nan’s house during the day so I can use natural light in the house to take the photos. When covid rules relax more.
HOW/EQUIPMENT: I am going to use my Sony A73 with my 35mm lens to get the wider interior shots of the house and of my Nan. For the details I will use either the 50mm or the 70-200mm zoom lens to really isolate the the details I am capturing. I want to use window light for most the interior shots of the house and not use the ceiling lights as they are a different colour and make the photos look really dingy and colour contrast with the cool window light.
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SHOOT 4 – Me and my Mini
CONCEPT: At the end of November I bought my own mini. I want to get some photo’s, some taken by a friends and some self portraits. I am looking to get both candid and environmental portraits of me working on the car and driving it. For environmental images I want some posed shots of me in my grandad’s old mini club jumpers sitting on the car or next to it. I also have an old steering wheel which was my grandad’s so i could also be holding that in the photos.
WHEN/WHERE: Location 1. – In the garage working on the car. Location 2. –The 5 mile road, L’etack, Le Pulant driving the car and posing next to the car.
HOW/EQUIPMENT: I will do a mixture of self portraits and some photos taken by James Rouault. I will use my Sony a73 on a tripod with a 24-70 for the self portraits as it is makes things easier to take the photos myself.
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nick waplington
waplington tends to take images with a film camera as he says he has “always felt more in control with film, which he says handles the mixed light better”. in waplingtons project, living room, he photographed the daily lives of two working class families, who lived on a council estate in Nottingham, England, over four years. he did this to “expose the viewer to every intimate moment of domesticity and laying bare the private sanctity of home.”. waplington grew up in the UK during the post-punk era, and with his parents regularly traveling he spent lots of time on his own. waplington stated in an article that, “big influence on me. I realise now that I have a teenage child that we had a lot of freedom back then, which kids don’t have now. At the age of 12 I was just out in London. I was up all hours doing whatever I wanted, which was perfectly acceptable so long as I went to school. I think that the music scene, the politics and the world that went with it has had a life-long effect on people of my age, especially on what they do and how they produce things.” waplington is inspired by the world around him, and creates his work following a detailed process. his process includes revisiting previous work, and allowing those projects to spark new but almost similar projects with the same intentions. when talking about research in an interview waplington stated, “I’m always trying to re-evaluate and change what I do so that I’m outside of my comfort zone.” waplington now focuses on documenting his own family’ lives.
The lighting in the photograph is completely natural, and links to how Waplington wanted to document normal life, and not fake ones. The colours are fairly muted, with accents of bright colours, but mostly within the clothing of the individuals pictured. Did Waplington do this to show how ordinary these people are? The composition of this image is strong, with the little girl being the focal point of the image, as she is surrounded by 2 figures on each side. Do these figures have relation to her, or are they just friends to the family? Nick Waplington creates a question with this photograph and that is who is this family, what have they been through and how to the relate to him? Personally I think this image says a lot about Waplington, himself, as growing up he spent lots of time alone, with his parents being away. This photograph contrasts with the type of upbringing that Waplington had, as he was not surrounded constantly around family. The families he photographed thrive off family interactions, they live for it. Family gatherings are often, and Waplington wanted to capture them to maybe almost reflect on what he would have liked to have, and what he wants for his own family.
| what? | candid photographs/videos during the christmas period |
| who? | family |
| where? | at home, out on walks |
| how? | setting my camera on a tripod and using a timer handheld (videos) |
| why? | to gain natural photos/videos of my family during a time when family means the most |
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