Street photography is a common form of candid photography in which photos are taken in a street and the subjects are unaware of the photo being taken which creates a more natural look. These photos can be used to document historic events as well as showcase the differences in cultures as exhibited in Moriyama Daido’s Japanese photography.
SHOOT PLAN
WHERE
WHO
WHY
WHEN
Main street in town
Random people in town
To find interesting features in people walking around
After school 19/11/20
CONTACT SHEET FOR SHOOT
These photos turned out horribly as the street was not busy due to many people avoiding crowded streets because of COVID so I couldn’t get the crowded kind of photos I wanted. I also l felt really uncomfortable taking these photos as I felt very morally dubious taking photos without consent so stopped very early on. With the photos I do have I am going to put in black and white to replicate Moriyama Daido’s.
On Photoshop, I cropped the images to make them focus more on individuals and then made them back and white to thew setting of maximum black. This made the photos look more dramatic and unsettling and I really liked how they turned out.
Here are my two favourite images. I like how the black and white tonal has given the photos a gloominess that effectively conveys the atmosphere at this current time period where not only is the weather cold and grim but also everything else is as coronavirus has shut everything down
Overall I fell that my first initial thought of this project was that it was going to be something in which I would not be interested in however as I slowly started to develop ideas for photo-shoots as well as understanding multiple different artists perspectives of their photographs relating to identify; I started to create more of an interest to this project. One of the most interesting discoveries I made while working on this project is that Claude Cahun’s photography is very different to others as its very original. There were several challenges in which I faced while creating this project. For example putting the photo shoots together took a lot of planning as I needed to find models willing to go out of their comfort zone to put on feminine items. The most important thing I learned is that you have to experiment with different lighting and backgrounds before you come out with the best result in which you can.I came up with my final solution by analyzing each photo I took and decided which one had better features. During this project I had to other come several objects such as understanding other artists opinions as well as understand and develop new ideas of my own. If I was to redo this project I would maybe take a closer look at place as in the majority of my photos its more focused on the models identity rather than the place which could of reflected their identity. I feel like I could improve on my planning skills as although I planned some photo-shoots I could of thought to include place.
The photograph above is by an unknown photographer. The subject in the image is very central, and the background is symmetrical. However where you notice the double exposure, its a lot less symmetrical. It has high contrast and is in black and white.
Using photoshop and the same images used for my diamond cameo, I placed one image on top of the other- I then lowered the opacity giving my view of the image underneath and erased unwanted parts of the image.
To make my photograph more relatable to the multi exposure image I found, I increased contrast, as well as opacity slightly. I made he image black and white.
