Looking at this assignment initially was pretty confusing compared to EYV and the square mile assignment.

Assignment brief — create two sets of pictures that tell a different version of the same story.

However, after reading it a few times, it initially gave me the idea of what hides in images at times. Telling the same story within both images. Could these stand up in a court of law? Work that I’ve previously done before images have been used as evidence, taken in some interesting locations. It is at times when detail is hiding in the shadows that we miss.

Recently I’ve been intrigued with shadows, silhouettes in my street photography style in a high contrast black and white is a kind of fine art style. So I’ve decided to see who and what’s hiding in the shadows.

Contact sheet below. A yellow cross highlights my selections.

https://wanderingwindsorman.photo.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/c-and-n-ass-1-contact-sheet.pdf

 

After the initial brainstorming and looking at what I wanted to achieve and get this part of the course underway. I left for London and went with the idea of “what hides in the shadows”.

Demonstration of technical and visual skills – I’m hoping this will give you the viewer some form of an idea in what flicks my switch with photography. Using my Fujifilm camera whereas I’ve mentioned before I mainly shoot with the Acros Fujifilm simulation profile. This allows me to see the image in black and white and control the exposure to my desired effect with the shadows and highlights. By hiding in the shadows myself you become invisible to the general public, even if they think you’re photographing them you have St Pauls in the background as a visual subject, letting you capture what you wanted in the first place.

Quality of outcome – I’m overall happy with these images by copying the image and opening up the shadows in post. Some do not look that pleasing to the eye, but this is what I was trying to achieve within this series. I would have had to have two cameras set up and firing at the same time to achieve this. Not something that I wanted to do. One would have had to been exposed correctly, and probably been too slow of a shutter speed even if id pushed the iso up. This would have given a strong and harsh noisy image and not what I wanted to achieve.

Demonstration of creativity – I think this shows my creative side. The initial images for me are what I currently enjoy taking. Searching for areas of strong light and shadows trying to isolate an individual subject or interesting lines.

Context – Behind these images I believe I’ve hit this brief, intruding myself to my tutor in how I see compositions and delivering with images and work that is both pleasing and interesting to view. By seeing what can hide within the shadows is one intriguing and two interesting when you look at how things, subjects and intentionally people can hide within an image, but by using editing software almost nothing is invisible to a certain degree in photography.