DSDN144_project2_time_firtst/shoot

Experimenting with long exposures for project 2, time.

Using old fire works i had i just wanted to try  create a series of photos to grasp how to capture objects and light using a long exposure photograph. IM not sure of what i will base my final series on but this has helped me understand how to play around with the settings on my camera and capture time using light.

DSDN144_lab_stop/motion

My stop motion photo shoot on the lab time. I took a series of photographs over a period of time. Focusing on my subjects and how there movements over time.

DSDN144_project1_final-hand-in

DSDN144_Contactsheet2

Exploration of urban areas where waste rubbish is kept. I like the geometric lines of the concete buildings juxtaposed with the colour of the scattered manner of the rubbish. the contrasting colours give the feeling of a morbid, desolate space.
                                           

 Antoher hard, square run down building with messy, left behind scraps of infrastructure contrast the vandalised skip bin. I like the negative space of the concrete wall and how this space is wasted by the untidy concrete slabs and pipes.

 I experimented with lighting in this shot. The harsh security floof light overwhelmed the top corner of this image but gives a sense of hierachy within the photograph.The skip sits overloaded in the harsh, cold cinderblock room. I was trying to capture how this room is now taken up by this rubbish bin and the space it takes up.

Again just experimenting with lighting. Using a flash to show a disposed of crate as it lies on a roof. I liked the contrasting colours and depth of field it created.

Using lighting again to try capture the mess on the surface and not drawing attention to the background of the image. I wanted to focus on the foreground and the space taken up by uncleaned, disregarded rubbish. I needed to focus on the objects better however.

Using a black and white image to try further the emotions of the spaces. I felt making them black and white enhanced the dull, dreary areas where waste is disposed.

After my second shoot of  photographing ideas of space i have chosen to further look into the idea of waste disposal areas. While exploring witht the term space i found this subject the most intriging to me and i feel it shows in the photos i have taken and the areas i have focused on. The term disposal means the action or process of throwing away or getting rid of something. I photographed the areas in which waste is disposed, these areas were very unassuming but set a moody, silenced tone which i have tried to capture in my images.  I tried to capture the different contrasting tones of certain areas and involve the natural light which inhanced the mood of the space.

I sought inspiration from was Robert Cartwright, His series of photographs on urban spaces inspired me in the direction i chose for my final photographs.

Using techniques i have learnt from tech lectures and precedent images to inpire me i want to create a series of photos that show my term "disposal" within the term space.

DSDN144_panaorama&miniworld

My second attempt at a panorama. After my initial trial at making a panorama i learnt what i had done wrong and chose a beter field to photograph. I also spent more time editing the images and more care when sticking them together, the result bieng a polished panorama.

I then turned that panaorama into my 2nd attempt at a mini world. As with my panoarama i spent my time editing it and now that i had practised with the technique i feel this mini world is much better than the previous.

dsdn144_varietyofimages

 Short shutter speed.
My example of slow shutter speed. Pouring one glass of water into the other i captured the movement of the flowing water and the churning, bubling of the liquid as it falls into the glass below.

Long shutter speed.
My photograph using a long shutter speed. I got a friend to wave his hands infront of him, his body remains in focus while the fast movement of the moving hands blurs them.

Small apeture
My example of large depth of field. everything is in focus

Large apeture
Small depth of field, focusing on the bottle which blurs out the person in the background.

DSDN_144_white.balance

Experimenting with white balance