I took these images at St. Brelade’s Bay during another CISF training day. The conditions weren’t the best so I had to make sure I captured the right moment when my sister caught a wave.
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I took these images at Le Braye during my sisters free surf session. I took images of my sister getting ready, entering the water and her surfing as well. I had a zoom lens which enabled me to capture action shots of my sister in the water.
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I have rated my images on what I think are my best images. I will definitely use the green images and I will work on the yellow ones as they have potential.
For my exam I am going to make links to Nancy Honey and Tamara Lichtenstein, and tying in the exam topic observe seek and challenge. I am going to take my images in they style of the male gaze which can also be turned into the idea for empowering women on making themselves comfortable when they feel vulnerable, which links to the observe and challenge part of the exam board theme, as I am observing in the way women are seen in media and in general though men and then challenging that by letting females feel empowered by the way they are seen and making people comfortable around a camera as it isn’t objectifying them as it is capturing beauty.
I am going to experiment with lighting to try create shadows I am going to do this by using lights and lamps which I have at home, I am going to do multiple shoots in different locations to construct the idea of adventure and seeking new places.
For this final project, I would like to present my study in a photo book form. As a result of this, I intend to produce many photoshoots so that I will have a large variety of images that I can pick from. This means that, I would roughly need a minimum of 30 final images to create my book. I have plans to begin my study for this project as soon as possible to allow me the most amount of time to compete it.
In my third photoshoot, I produced 401 images.
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Some examples:
Some sky images, I changed the overall colour for some. I did this by changing the temperature and tint sliders, combined with all the basic sliders too and slight tweaks of the vibrance and saturation bars, these all were used to completely enhance and make the photos so much better:
Most of the night images edits were mostly minimal and hard to even notice, as they were mostly toned to the way I saw fit already. The ones that feature the car lights though took a bit more work than the rest of the photographs. These were made by slowing own the shutter speed on the camera, so when a car was about to pass I would press the shoot button and the shutter would stay open, capturing all the lights and movement during that window of time. When the shutter closed, after about 20 seconds, the final image would show the lights from the cars turned into streaks.
In formalism the Design, Composition and Lighting are dominant over Subject Matter. The photographer becomes a visual designer whenever a frame is captured.
In my work I believe I focus on the idea of formalism in the way the image is dominantly made up of bold lines shadows and tones, with elements of heavy texture or even the lack of texture.
here are some examples of my work from my first photoshoot in which I believe my work shows a heavy inspiration from formalism.
