For my first photoshoot, I went to St Malo where I was able to take my street photography. Henri Carter Bresson was my inspiration for this photoshoot so I tried to imitate his style so I focused on getting natural photos of people.
Henri Cartier Bresson inspired
In these photos I’m taking inspiration from Henri Cartier Bresson and how he will wait for the decisive moment. To be able to recreate his photos I waited in the same spot which I thought would create an interesting shot waited there until someone came by and tried to get a natural photo of them.
I found to get a similar feel to his work a lot of it came to the editing which you can tell from these images compared to the ones below In colour. Editing inspired by Henri Cartier Bresson was relatively simple I noticed that all his images as in black and white but they had a lot of contrast within them which he got through lighting. However, I was able to achieve that due to it being cloudy so I had to create that through editing.
People
These images are very similar to the ones above however for these I stuck to the idea of waiting for the decisive moment but I didn’t turn them black and white like Henri Carter Bresson. I preferred this because I felt erasing the colour took a lot of the life and the personality out of the image. Because of it only being a snapshot of someone we don’t find out much about the person especially if the photo is in black and white, clothes, for example, can show a lot about someone if they wear eccentric brightly coloured clothes it can show that they maybe have this big personality which I like to see in photos like these.
Overall I’m quite happy with how this photoshoot came out. Although it was more of a difficult photoshoot to do as I had to find a spot that I found would make for an interesting spot and then have to wait for someone to come by but also having to make sure the lighting was right so it was overexposed or underexposed. This was something I had to focus on as different photos required very different settings for example the ones where the person was walking the shutter speed would have to be a lot quicker in order to get a good quality image out of it however for the photos of the people standing still I would then have to change the setting as it wasn’t going to be the same. My favorite image would the the woman in pink I found that setting in the street to be very good for trying to focus on one person but also having there be lots of people around. By using a busy location It meant I was able to get try and get a more interesting background to the image and then the main object within the picture I would have to try and frame so they would stand out the most. Although it wasn’t as busy as I had hoped I found this person worked well as she was wearing a partially bright and monochrome outfit which did make her stand out within a crowd.
Architecture
Although I was focusing on Henri Carter Bresson I also did want to take some photos where I focus on the architecture in St Malo.
I really liked this image above I found this interesting wall down one of the lanes where it had been heavily graffitied but on the side of it was a drain which worked well in my favor. When looking down from this angle the drain acts like a divide almost as if it is two images stuck together.
For this photo tried to use the pillars within the architecture to frame the picture as it was a beautiful building however the greenery within the middle open part really brightened up the image. The building itself is quite monitored with just the natural beiges of the brick which was used however having all the plants in the middle I found it added a lot more dimension to te image and it also made it more unique as it’s not something done very often or not to this degree.
