Work Diary - Location Contrast 2

Evaluation

I must admit, doing this shoot again was quite difficult. I'm not sure if I preferred the first shoot or the second, because I felt as though my options were limited with taking pictures on the second shoot as I found myself wanting to capture similar images to my first shoot. For this lesson we went around the campus again to try and improve our straight images from the previous location contrast shoot. I ended up with some successful photographs in the end, and felt that these were made to look a lot more appealing with photoshops wonderful tools. The contrast were evident in every picture and I took more where the page was split, as in the contrast would be sharing half of the page each as though there was a line going down the middle separating the two contrasts. I ended up with some successful pictures even if I did struggle with not taking the same style of photo as last time.

This was the most successful picture that I capture during this shoot because I think that the contrast is clearly evident. I deliberately positioned the leaves in a way that there was a bundle on one side with hardly any on the other side so that one portion of the frame contained leaves whilst the other contained only pavement. I liked editing this with the curves aswell to make the picture more dark an defined.

This was the worst photo that I took when capturing contrast on location for the second time. This picture is pretty pointless really, the bin doesn't look very straight in the picture and overall it's just an unattractive photograph. The colours of the bin and the brick wall contrast, however it would have probably been a lot more successful if the bin was completely blue instead of having a gap where the bin liner is on show.

Progression

Doing a contrast shoot on location is always a lot more enjoyable than doing it in the studio. There's so many grounds to cover and so many different things outside that contrast with eachother for example, car colour. If I was to redo this shoot a third time I would perhaps capture pictures of cars and go to the car park in order to find different images. I ended up staying around the same area on the second shoot which was a downfall for the quality of my photographs. I'll make sure to cover a lot more grounds next time and take as many pictures as possible as you can never have too many. I have included a few images that have been captured on location that inspire me.