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Street Photography Photospread

Here are my newspaper inspired photospreads that I made from my street photography images which I took in St Helier Jersey CI, I made 3 variants…

This is my first variant:

This is my second variant:

This is my third variant:

Here are close ups of the text I used

I only ended up using my second and third variant as I thought they worked well together, here is both of them printed and framed.

This is my second variant of my photospread

This is my third variant of my photospread

Compare and contrast; Henri Cartier-Bresson and William Klein

Cartier-Bresson is a observational photographer and William Klein is a confrontational photographer.

William Klein always makes his prints in his study room (a dark room) this helps him keep everything to a high standard.

1. Describe the difference in their approach to image-making in the streets.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

  • Calm and quiet style.
  • Focused on capturing the perfect moment (called the “decisive moment”).
  • Stayed invisible, didn’t disturb the scene.
  • Loved clean, balanced compositions.
  • Used a standard lens and shot from a distance.
  • His photos feel poetic and thoughtful.

William Klein

  • Loud and bold style.
  • Liked chaos and energy, didn’t wait for perfect moments.
  • Got very close to people, sometimes provoking them.
  • Didn’t care about perfect composition — liked blur, grain, and messy frames.
  • Used a wide-angle lens for dramatic effects.
  • His photos feel raw, wild, and edgy.

2. Choose one key image from each and compare looking at: TECHNICAL (camera settings), VISUAL (composition), CONTEXTUAL (artistic, cultural, historical and personal differences), CONCEPTUAL (idea, concept, meaning)

William Klein – Boy + Gun

TECHNICAL
Klein used a 35mm film camera with a wide-angle lens, which let him get very close to his subjects. The photo is black and white, grainy, and high contrast—probably shot with fast film in natural light. The sharpness and lighting give it a raw, gritty look. Klein didn’t care about traditional photography rules; he liked imperfections and spontaneous shots.

VISUAL
The image shows a young boy pointing a toy gun directly at the camera, his face twisted in a fake snarl. He takes up most of the frame, making the moment feel intense and uncomfortable. In the background, another boy is smiling, which adds a strange contrast. The photo feels bold, dramatic, and almost chaotic, which reflects the energy of the street.

CONTEXTUAL
This was taken in 1950s New York—a time of post-war change, rising urban violence, and Cold War fear. Toy guns were normal, but the image also hints at how violence becomes part of play and identity. Klein was born in New York but lived in Paris, so he had both an insider and outsider view of the city. His work focused on real, raw street life, especially in working-class and minority areas, which were often ignored by mainstream media.

CONCEPTUAL
At its core, this photo explores the mix of innocence and aggression. The boy is playing, but also acting out something darker—copying the adult world around him. By pointing the gun at the viewer, it makes us feel involved—maybe even guilty. It’s about how kids learn power, how the city shapes people, and how we look at others through photography.

Henri Cartier Bresson – Jumping The Puddle

TECHNICAL
Cartier-Bresson used a small Leica 35mm film camera, which let him move quickly and quietly. The photo is black and white, taken using natural light with a fast shutter speed to freeze the man mid-air. There’s no cropping—he composed everything in-camera, showing his focus on perfect timing and framing.

VISUAL
The photo captures a man leaping over a puddle, just before his heel touches the water. His reflection is visible below him, creating a mirror-like effect. In the background, you see a poster of a dancer, adding a poetic contrast between the two moments. The composition feels perfectly balanced, and the timing is precise—this is what Cartier-Bresson called “the decisive moment.”

CONTEXTUAL
Taken in Paris in the early 1930s, this photo shows everyday life with beauty and elegance. At the time, street photography was still new, and Cartier-Bresson helped shape it into an art form. He believed in capturing real life without interfering or staging anything. This was part of a wider cultural shift in art, focusing more on realism and ordinary people.

CONCEPTUAL
The photo is about timing, movement, and chance. It freezes a split-second that might normally go unnoticed. There’s also a feeling of freedom and lightness in the jump, even though the setting is quite plain. It shows how something small and ordinary—like jumping over a puddle—can become poetic if seen at just the right moment.

3. Add your own responses to making observational and confrontational images and evaluate in relation to what you have learned about the two different approaches.

After doing this research I learned that I now prefer confrontational images due to the more up close feel and more natural realness to it due to the unawareness and distance between the photographer and the subject, whilst observational feels don’t have this same feel due to the distance of the photo.

Picture stories; Research and Analysis

A picture story is a story told mainly through pictures or images. It shows what happens step-by-step using drawings or photos, sometimes with just a few words or sentences. It helps people understand the story by looking at the pictures.

The type of image types commonly used in them are:

  1. Person at work

A person at work shot is where you capture someone doing something, this could be someone typing on a computer at there office job all the way to someone riding a skateboard down the street.

Here is an example from the JEP (Jersey Evening Post):

2. Relationship shot

A relationship shot is off people in a relationship/dating or is two or more people being together and doing something.

Here is an example taken from the JEP:

3. Establishing shot

The establishing shot is one of the core foundations of visual storytelling. Typically, it is a long shot and often the first shot of a scene. It helps the audience understand where the following sequence will take place and the thematic elements they can expect from the scene.

Here is an example from the JEP:

4. Detail shot

A detail shot is used to tell the story of the situation by focusing on a relatively small portion of it. Details shots also can be images that, through compositional techniques, draw attention to a specific detail of a subject that might otherwise have gone unnoticed.

Here is an example from the JEP:

5. Environmental portrait

An environmental portrait is similar to the formal portrait in that the subject often knows he is being photographed but a lot more emphasis is placed on location. For example a portrait in the subjects workplace or a picture that reveals a lot more about the person due to the surroundings he is photographed in. A pilot next to aircraft or in the cockpit etc…

Here is an example taken from the JEP:

6. Formal portrait

A formal portrait is when the subject is totally under your control. You decide lighting, posture, distance etc but in a way that still permits the personality of the subject to come through.
A good relationship with the subject is helpful here.

Here is an example from the JEP:

7. Observed portrait

This when the subject is not as aware of having his picture taken. A more candid approach to get that natural relaxed feeling to the picture. There is a lot of crossover between the different portrait styles to you could have an observed/environmental portrait or even an observed/formal portrait taken during a moment when the subject maybe not aware your taking pictures.

Here is a mood board I produced from newspaper layouts and magazine style picture stories.

These photos were taken by Louis Tomilson over his egypt trips in 2023 and 2024.

Cropping

Cropping is when you cut out parts of a photo to focus on the most important part or change it creatively, it can be used to highlight certain parts of an image and change the photo entirely.

I selected some of my street photography images that I took of people in St Helier Jersey and did some cropping on them.

  1. Construction worker getting food

In this photo it shows a man in a hard hat, hi-vis, muddy joggers, safety goggles and a pair of work boots, the man is waiting by a food stand to get some lunch for his break and has a smile whilst waiting showing that he is a grateful to finally have a break, I wanted to make this stand out and the photo has loads of unneeded background space, so I cropped the photo inwards to just the food stand and the man, this helps pinpoint and highlights what’s going on in the photo.

Here is the photo cropped, I did a square crop so that it would highlight the man and what he is doing.

Here are some edits I did of the cropped photo:

2. Man busking in the street

In this photo it shows a man busking on the corner of a street with another man watching, I blurred out the man watching to help make the guy busking pop out of the photo, the man busking had black and red patchwork tattoos down both his legs, a band t shirt of the rock band “joy division” which helps the viewer of the photo be able to imagine what type of music he is singing due to him liking the band so much that he is wearing there t shirt, he also has a hat on the floor which he was using to collect money, this shows that he is doing it for work, I took the photo when he had his mouth open to also clearly show that he was singing.

Here is the photo cropped, I cropped it so it would show the man busking and some of the man watching him, this helps better focus on the man busking and what’s going on with him whilst also showing who it is who he is singing to.

3. Flower shop lady in the market

This photo is of a lady within the Jersey St. Helier market who owns a flower shop, it shows her at her flower shop holding a bouquet of flowers, due to her being at a flower shop it has a big range of different bright and vibrant colours, this made the photo pop out more and be attention catching but it takes the attention away from her and is quite hectic, many of the colours also clashed witch each other.

This is the photo cropped, although I like both versions of the photo I decided to crop just around the lady because the chaotic background takes away from her, this helped highlight her and present her as the main focal point of the photo.

I then did a creative circle crop of her inside off a flower, to do this i had to crop the image into a circle in photoshop, i did this by making the background the flower photo, the image of her a layer and then turning the opacity of it down so i can still see the flower and then using a eraser on the parts leaving the flower..

4. Postman carrying packages through town

This photo is of a postman wheeling packages through town, we can tell that he is a postman because he is wheeling a trolley loaded with four packages through town and he is also wearing the Jersey post uniform which is always distinguishable due to the bright red top.

This is the photo cropped, the photo had to much background space so I cropped it out and cropped around around the postman to highlight him.

5. Guy painting in the park

This photo is of a guy painting in millennium park, we can see one of his previous paintings on the floor, this style of painting is called pleinair painting which means out door painting, you can see all of his equipment on the floor and a beer in his easel to loosen him up whilst painting, I also captured some of Victoria College in the background.

When cropping the photo I did a landscape crop over him and Victoria College to draw attention to both and get rid of the excess space.

When further looking at the image a saw potential for a vertical panoramic crop going down from Victoria College.

The panoramic crop stars out with brighter lighting at the top and progressively darker lighting as you travel down the image, this helped to give the photo a really unique multitone effect just from cropping, this is how it came out:

Everything together

Here are all my cropped images after grouping them together.

St Helier Street Photography

Street photography is a type of photography that captures candid moments of everyday life in public places, often focusing on people and their interactions with the environment. It’s usually unposed and spontaneous, aiming to show real human emotion, behaviour, or culture in urban settings.

I did a street photography photoshoot in St Helier in the style of people like William Klein and Bruce Gilden, both William Klein and Bruce Gilden lived in New York and took messy energetic street photos.

Here are all the images I got:

After going through the images i picked out a few of my favourites that i want to use as my final images:

I then went through my favourite photos and did some light editing on them, creating a black and white copy for each one.

When creating the black and white variants I standardized them by putting the B&W 12 filter over, I chose this filter because I liked the vintage look that it gave the photos because it reminded me of the images William Klein and Bruce Gilden got.

Flower shop lady: the decisive moment for me when taking this photo was when she held up the flowers to serve a customer, capturing a realness within the photo as it shows her naturally.

Guy painting: When taking the photo I waited for him to move/lean to grab something then took the photo as my decisive moment, this created a more interesting perspective of him, I also framed him within the middle of my photo, in the bottom right corner you can see that a painting he had done previously has been squeezed into the photo, you can also see that on his easel that there is a beer he is drinking in the sun whilst he paints.

Guy busking/singing: I saw a man singing on a corner in town so i went by wall next to him to get a tiny bit of the side in the photo to add texture and alter the framing and then for the decisive moment I waited for him to open his mouth to sing.

Wheelchairs driving together: I saw two people

Henri Cartier-Bresson and the ‘decisive moment ‘

How does Henri Cartier-Bresson view the act of photography?

#1 Henri thought photography was an extension of the eye, it could capture things which the eyes weren’t able to, such as far away details.

#2 Capturing moments of community and precise moments, he liked to be able to preserve history and other precious moments.

Here are some of his images:

Here is what he looks like:

Describe Cartier-Bresson’s theory of the decisive moment

It is capturing the photo at the right second, it is both the perfect moment for the photographer and the subject.

If you miss the moment then it is gone.

“The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second.”

Analysis:

This is an analysis of a photo by Cartier-Bresson

zein; design and layout

A zine is a small, handmade diy magazine, it consists of photos and text.

For my zine I decided to do a range of landscape/romanticism style photos which I then creatively edited after, here a few examples of the photos I put into the zine:

This a photo taken at “Queens Valley” in the Jersey Channel Islands, when editing the photo I added a purple tint to help romanticize the view.

This photo was taken at “St Ouens Reservoir” in the Jersey Channel Islands, I increased the yellow and orange hues from the sunset and also added a pink tone to it, I then added a dramatic haze over it to give the photo a more nostalgic feel and help with giving a romanticism feel to it.

Here are two similar but different creative edits of the same tree that I put into the zine, the blue one is titled “Water” and the red one is titled “Blood”, this is a correlation to the thickness of blood and water with the photo titled “Blood” being more prominent and standing out more which was done by me boosting the effects I used on the blue image higher on the red image.

Here are two more similar photos that I did of trees, the photo was taken by moving the camera fast to create a natural blur and then editing the photos to enhance the effect of the blur, add game and then used the colour wheel to change the colour of each image.

Here is another creative edit I did off multiple photos I took off trees, I cut them all into panoramic images and edited each creatively, I added gain, changed colours, changed orientation and flipped some around e.c.t

Artist reference

My artist refence was Richard Mose, he used infrared cameras that they would use in the war to then take abstract landscape photos inspired by them, I found all his landscape photos to be really creative and unique and wanted to try imitate it, here are some examples of his work:

Panoramic/joiner photographs overview

A panoramic/joiner image is showing a FOV (field of view) approximating, or greater than, that of the human eye – about 160° by 75°, it generally has a aspect ratio of 2:1 or larger, the image being at least twice as wide as it is high. The resulting images take the form of a wide strip.

1. Josef Hoflehner

  • An Austrian photographer known for large-scale, minimalist panoramic landscapes and seascapes, he usually did them in black and white.

2. David Hockney

  • David specialised as a painter, he used photography to create panoramic collages, capturing scenes from multiple angles and putting them together, his work is conceptual rather than traditional panoramic.

3. Ken Duncan

  • An Australian landscape photographer known for his panoramic images of the Australian outback and other landscapes.

4. Thomas Struth

  • Known for panoramic museum interiors and cityscapes.

5. Michael Reichmann

  • A Canadian photographer who was an early advocate of digital panoramic photography.

6. Andreas Gursky

  • While not always working in a traditional panoramic format, his ultra-large-scale images often span enormous horizontal spaces and can be considered panoramic.

Here are some panoramic photos I made:

Texture

Me and my group went outside to cry capture different elements of texture, we went out with an open mind and explored around the outskirts of the school to see all the different types of texture which we could find in our daily life!!!

Here’s a photo we took of a crossing on the road, the road had moss growing over the top of it which was a really cool texture and created a unique and abstract pattern throughout it, this is the original photo.

This is the photo edited.

This is a photo I took of a metal fence.

In the background of the photo you can see cars and bikes next to a building which helps to translate which it was taken in a car park.

The photo has a grain texture which gives it a vintage feel.

Double exposures

This is my original photo I took off my model with a white background.

Here are the photos after I went into photoshop and edited double exposure onto them.

This is a photo taken off me, this is the original version and it was taken with 2 constant lights that had different coloured see through plastic sheets, one was orange and one was green.

Here is the photo after I edited it in photoshop experimenting with double exposure.

I took this photo of two students doing a photo shoot

I then edited it

I then edited some double exposures onto the photo.