My aim and plan for this shoot is to capture a series of images capturing the fronts of shops. The reason behind me choosing this as a shoot is because I believe it connects really well with this topic. As the shops in Waltham Abbey are most small unknown shops in old listed buildings I think they will be really interesting to capture. Therefore my main aim to to capture this and keep in mind the composition of photographers such as Andreas Gursky- Thus showing the key influence Gursky has had across this project. There are also a few other photographers which have helped influenced different ideas for this shoot. For example the image shown here is present in my research log by photographer Nigel Henderson.What I actually achieved;
Personally, I find this image is my strongest image within this shoot. As a whole I am really happy with the outcome of this image because of the positioning and composition I have captured. When capturing this image, I was standing there for a little while before taking these images because I didn't want people within this image. This is because even though I do think images look good with subjects, I wanted this image to purely focus on the post office. This is because I believe there is lots of posters and signs up and this isn't a plain looking shop wall. My main aim of focusing on the composition is really clear and successful in this image because I captured the post box as central as I could. I didn't use a tripod for this shoot so when I re-shoot for my exam shoot, I will definitely use a tripod because this will mean I can focus more on the framing rather than worrying about holding it. The white sections of this image is quite over exposed however, I still like this effect because I believe this helps link with the lighting work of photographers such as Bernd and Hilla and always Gursky.
At first sight people may think that this image is distorted in the way of a fish eye lens effect, however this is the reason why I thought I should talk about this within my work record because it is not that my camera focal length was wide, but because of the state of the building. This building as the audience might guess much like the other buildings in this shoot, is really old and in time is has slowly become "wonky" but not only this but the row of shop bends backwards around a bend adding to the effect of it being distorted. I do think this is a successful image in terms of showing old buildings. However, I do believe when I come to my shop front shoot for my exam, I will take the photo just of the shop rather than the alley next to it, this is because this way my audiences focus isn't lost on wondering what is down the alley. I do believe that if this image was just of the shop alone, it would have a very similar effect to the image which I have used in my plans for this shoot from my research log.
When I shot my shoot 6 shoot, I captured an image of the door of this cafe, because I find the outside of this cafe really beautiful as it looks like it belongs to a cottage small town. However, I do believe as mentioned about on my shoot 6 work record, that this is my weakest image within this shoot because firstly, my focal length is much wider than it should be creating a fish eye distortion which straight away I do not like. Further more, there is shadowing from the shop next door as this is sort of down an alley so it faces the wrong way to the sun. A way to improve this image would have been to maybe go back later on in my shoot so the sun had moved stopping the shadow, but also the use of a tripod would have been much more successful because when you look at the kerb in the foreground, you can see how this image is not at all straight.
What I am doing next:
My next shoots will take place within my exam. Therefore I will be taking all the experimental tasks I have done from this shoot into my exam shoots in order to create the best outcome for manufactured structures series of images. In regards for shoot 7, I believe the main outcome I can take from this will be that I must use a tripod within my exam because other wise my shop shoot might not be as "sharp" and "neat" as I want them to be.
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