I ended up photographing different buildings along St Ouens Bay that didn’t fit into the ‘ordinary’ design of typical buildings, or were hidden by nature.
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There was natural backlighting so I struggles to create the right exposure. To fix this I did exposure bracketing with some of my photos.
Overall I’m not completely happy with how the shoot turned out because I feel like it doesn’t capture typology in the right way. This is because the buildings are all different shapes so it doesn’t look like an general similar group of photos. However I like that I managed to photograph photos that belong to the same area and holds history.
My favourite photo from this shoot is this one because I really like how the building is solitary and the way the sunlight hits the fog creates warm affect. I think the contrast between the background being misty and faded and the building being clear and standing out is also creates a good composition.
For my second shoot I went to St Brelade Bay and photographed wheels. I liked the variety of texture and size on them and thought it would create a good subject. I really like how the shoot turned out, however I think I could have improved the shoot by finding more wheels as the typology is quite small. I like the running theme of red throughout the images because it links them together and the complete typology has a general rustic feel.
My favourite image from the shoot is this one because of the angle it was taken. It shows a different perspective to all the other photos and includes three of the wheels. I like that the focal point is the first big wheel, then the next two create leading lines to the other side of the image. I also think the fact that it doesn’t particularly follow the rule of thirds and has no central point makes the image more interesting.
