20200220-Assignment Two ideas

Photographing the unseen. A question I’ve been asking myself what is the unseen?

1 Mental Health
2 Hidden beauty
3 Emotions
4 Thoughts
5 Courage
6 Discipline
7 Wealth/Poverty

The above are potentially seven areas in which I think can be unseen. Some harder than the others. Some I may leave for another day to venture into.

There are three elements from above I’m drawn to. Hidden beauty, Emotions and Thoughts. When I go out and look at areas to photograph. I want to find beauty within the composition, I want to have a feeling of emotion when someone gazes at it whether I’ve posted them to a social media platform or prints in my house.

I also think there is an idea of the viewer trying to understand your thoughts and the process you have gone through. The journey you’ve taken, the time spent waiting, fishing for your image. That decision or decisive moment you waited for, the light to fall where you pre visualised, the shadows to move into the right place. Maybe time should be up in my list?

Timing is everything when photography is in play. From the time you set up to the time you took to research, shutter speed etc.

Looking further with this assignment with an interest in using light and shadows to create a picture. Maybe that’s the unseen part of it. The thought process behind and image.

• How did I visualise the image
• What drew me to that location
• What are the elements in within the composition
• Day
• Night
• Colour
• Black and white
• Silhouettes
• Single subject
• harsh shadows
• Lines
• Geometric shapes

Only time will tell what is the unseen!