From the hip

Of a total 406 images, I narrowed these down easily to 34 as many were purely of the ground. All are at an angle and out of focus which otherwise wouldn’t look great however as a collection I think can work together.

These images work best in sequences to tell a story as they aren’t technically great since they have lots of motion blur or are just generally out of focus for example:

Sequence

The decisive moment

I narrowed down 438 images to 46. These 46 could be summed up into 4 main groups: colour, black and white, motion blur and the church.

I think that these three together create a nice sequence however I shouldn’t of zoomed in on the final one so that all three would be the same. I spotted the lady because of her red coat and trousers which stood out against the grey stone.

I tried adjusting the shutter speed to capture a moving object. I tried moving the camera with the car however most attempts were completely blurred. This was the only one where the vehicle was still in focus.

I accidently took these photographs when I adjusted the shutter speed in a dark church. The streaks were the chandeliers which naturally stood out against the dark background. The first was an accident when I moved the camera after taking the photo however the shutter speed was much lower than I thought. Once I saw the outcome I tried making additional shapes and I think the spiral one worked out also.

I think I had the most success when photographing people around the town. I think that the set ups had varying success and I liked the ones taken further away most. I set all of them in black and white which was the same as Henri-Cartier Bresson which meant that colours wouldn’t be distracting and the focus would be purely on the subjects. Additionally I think that the quieter backgrounds looked better.

I tried the photographs in colour with some colour adjustments and while the colours looked alright I didn’t like them as much. I found that the colour sometimes takes attention away from the people and while in some cases I want the photograph to be about the colour, the majority had nothing to do with colours at all so I made them greyscale.