Personal Shoot 7 Work Record - Faces

Preparation

For this shoot, much like the animation, I wanted to make sure that I had a lot of space so that I could take a lo of photos, in order to have a decent amount of variety to create some nice multiple imagery photographs.  I also had to make sure that I had a couple of locations in mind so that I wouldn't know where to go when it actually came to shooting.  Places like Covent Garden and Oxford Street that are always busy with people were places that I thought would be most interesting to go to in order to get a good variety of faces.  Another factor that I had to make sure I had right was the distance that I would be away from the subjects.  I realised that in order to get the best types of shot I would have to take them from a long distance and would therefore need to be able to zoom a lot further.  Luckily, I have a 300mm lens that I fitted onto my camera so that I could get a good close-up of people passing by which I thought worked out highly effectively.

What I Hope To Achieve

For this shoot I am hoping that I am going to be able to get a good variety of faces from various shot types so that I can piece them all together to represent the variation in people.  I am also hoping that I am going to be able to make some interesting looking edits rather than just simply placing individual images side by side.  I am going to experiment a great deal with the types of edits that I can produce so that there is more variation amongst all the different faces.  I haven't looked at that many photographs following the same idea that I want to capture as I think it will make the shoot more unique and interesting.

What I Actually Achieved

The shoot went really well and I think I got a great variety of shots and faces that I can really work with to get some good edits.  Hopefully the shoot won't be that hard to edit but I think that it is going to be more of a time consuming task than a hard one which is why I think that I will be able to have more patience with it.  Here are some examples of the work that I created.

This was my favourite edit from the entire shoot as I love the way that it shows all of the variety in the faces. This is exactly the way that I wanted the image to turn out because I think it shows what I wanted to get across really well.  I like the way that all of the faces are different and all of the different angles that the photographs are taken from.  I also like the way that all of the photographs have been taken so that the subject doesn't now that they are being shot, as it adds to the overall look of the images.  When they are all placed next to each other I think that the effect of them all looking off into different directions makes for a much better image.  

This was another one of my favourite edits from all of the different photographs that I got from the day. I like the way that I have pieced all of the photos together to show the levels of different people and the types of people that are around.  For example, I like the way that there are people selling things, sitting or crouching down for a break and simply just walking around shopping.  It highlights what London is all about and I think that by placing them all together in the way that I have, shows whoever is looking at the image, the variety that I was initially trying to capture.

This was more of an experiment that a serious edit, however I am really happy with the way that it turned out which is why I have included it.  The performer on the far left had a really large crowd in Covent Garden and I thought that it would be interesting to get a picture of him and then individual pictures of the people's reaction to what was happening.  I thought it would be interesting to see if I could make it look like they were actually watching the performances through the pictures.  The way that I placed them all together has been really effective and I love the way that this image turned out. 

 What I Plan To Do Next

For my next shoot I am going to focus on some surrealistic ideas to present multiple imagery.  I think that it would be interesting to see what types of edits I can create to indicate surreal ideas.  For this I have looked at the work of Thomas Barbey and am planning to base the entire shoot around similar ideas as I have taken a lot of inspiration from his work.  Hopefully, when it comes to editing I will be able to get the ideas across that I am going to try and capture.

Personal Shoot 7 Edits - Faces

Personal Shoot 6 Work Record - Panoramas

Preparation

For this shoot I had to make sure that I had a good locations to get the photos that I had in mind.  As I want to get photos of London skyline, I need to be able to get up high in a centre area in London.  This is a better idea than trying to get the skyline from a distance as I would be able to do a 360 degree pan which I think would look really effective.  To start, I have already thought of a location, which is a building in London where you can get a clear view of London Bridge and St Pauls Cathedral.  This would be a good location as I can circle the entire building and get a good panorama of the whole of London's skyline.

What I Hope To Achieve

I am hoping that I am going to be able to get a sufficient amount of images so that I can created a well rounded group of panoramas that highlight multiple imagery and show London's skyline in a nice way. I am also going to make some eery looking edits to give the shoot a little more variety that just simply placing a lot of images together in a line.  I am also going to try and do some from different angles, such as a panorama of a particular building.  I am looking to create something similar to this because I think that it is effective and adds a different effect to the panorama idea.

What I Actually Achieved

When it came to the day of my shoot, it was very foggy and misty in London, so I wasn't sure about how my photographs were going to turn out.  Even though there were obvious weather setbacks, I made the most of the shoot and focused on the shots anyway and thought how I could edit them to make them look a little more clearer.  I didn't let this hold me back and I took a lot of shots so that I could piece together a few panoramas and I think that they all turned out to be quite effective.  Here were two of my favourites that I made.

This was one of my favourite edits from the shoot because I like the way that I decided to make the top of all the images a more purple colour to emphasise that particular area.  I also think that it is effective how I made the bottom half of the photo have a much more sepia toned effect to highlight the age of London.  I thought that the two together worked really well along with the idea of the panorama.  I also decided to make some of the images a little smaller width ways than the other because it adds to the final effect of the image.

This was another one of my favourite edits because I like the simplicity of the edit.  I wanted to keep one very simple to keep the overall effect and look of London as it was on the day of shooting.  I think that the way that I have captured the various parts of London has worked really well, especially with St Pauls Cathedral in the background, along with the cranes that are always present in London's skyline.  I also made the edit so that all of the images would blend together in a much smoother way, which I think that I have done to a good standard. 

What I Plan To Do Next

I think that I might try and re-do this shoot when the weather is a bit better.  I think it would be nice to capture some snowy photos from this type of angle, so I may try and do that if I get the chance.  In regards to my next shoot I am going to be looking at faces and the variation in people.  I am going to go to London to to take pictures of people and present them in a way that shows their differences.  I think that this would be an interesting area to look into as everyone is different and some multiple imagery photographs would be nice to get out of the idea.

Personal Shoot 5 Work Record - Animation

Preparation

For this shoot I need to make sure that I have a lot of space on my camera so that I can take a lot of photos and create a good length animation.  I also need to make sure that I can get a good idea behind the photos that I am taking so that I am not stuck for ideas when it comes to actually taking them.  I already have thought of a way in which I can get a good storyline and an effective animation.

What I Hope To Achieve

For this shoot I am hoping that I am going to be able to create a well made animation with a good background story, however I am unsure about how this is going to work, due to the simplicity of the shoot itself.  When it comes to making animations, it is sometimes quite hard to make it look interesting if you don't have a very well thought out plan.  For me, I find it quite hard to thing of storylines behind shoots and I don't feel that I have enough time to actually thinking about what I am going to shoot. Even so, I have looked at some examples of animations that people on youtube have created, in hope to find some inspiration.  Here is what I found; I doubt that I will be able to create something quite as complex as these examples as a lot of time, effort and thought has gone into creating them.

What I Actually Achieved

I am not 100% happy with how this shoot turned out, due to the fact that a lot of the photos are very shaky and I didn't plan the time of day very effectively for the idea that I had in mind.  Even so, the animation still works really well and I like the overall outcome.  I think that even though the story behind it was not entirely thought out very well, you can still get a sense of the journey that is being shown which is important when creating an animation.

I created this short animation of an escalator as they were the most stable images and it made a really interesting and smooth animation.  Despite it being very short, I still think that it is quite effective and is a nice simple animation.

This was the entire animation from all of the photos that I took.  As you can see from the majority of the images, not all of them are completely focused and at the same height which takes away from the overall idea behind the animation.  If I could go back and re-do this shoot, I would make sure that the images are a lot more stable so that the continuity is better.

What I Plan To Do Next

I think that I am going to re-do this shoot so that I can get better images and create a better animation overall.  I think that it would be a good idea because the entire thing would be a lot more smooth.  Even so, the overall look of the animation is still quite good and you can get the general idea of the animation.  For my next shoot I am going to take photos of London from the top of a building so that I can put together some panoramas from the photos that I have taken.

Black and Whites - Faces

London Panoramas

Animations

Personal Shoot 4 Edits

Personal Shoot 4 Work Record

Preparation

For this shoot I am going to use myself to take photographs of expression and emotion.  I need to make sure that I have the studio booked and that I can set up the camera and the lights so that I can get the best possible photographs of my face.  This is important so that all of the photos have the same lighting for when it comes to editing them all together.

What I Hope To Achieve

I hope that through doing this shoot I will get some good expression and emotion photographs that I can edit together to show the variation that faces give through different faces.  I think that this will be an interesting area to look at because it demonstrates really well the multiple imagery side of the human body.  Through changing the expression of the face through various types of expression, it is interesting to see how easily the face can change highlighting how multiple imagery can be seen in everyday life.  Photographs like these two are similar to what I am going to create.  Even though these photos are only showing four different faces, I am going to try and expand the amount of emotions in one image so that there is more variety.






















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What I Achieved

I managed to get some interesting photos that showed facial expression and emotion really well.  A lot of the images consisted of more that four images, however they still look effective and highlight the different emotions and expressions humans can connote really well.  I also decided to use myself and a different model to add more variety into the shoot which I thought was a good idea.  I also decided to not just simply put the images next to each other in a grid format, but to place individual images over one another to see the type of effect that it would give off.  The result was actually really intriguing and turned out better than I had expected.

This first image is similar to the first two images that I showed.  I think that this image in particular turned out really well because it shows how quickly the face can change, whether it be posed or natural.  It also highlights how the face can do strange things when you are put under a spotlight which I thought was an interesting area to develop.  You can see from the individual images, that some of them are posed and some of them are very natural and give off a 'caught off guard' kind of look which wasn't initially what I was going for, however I think that it has worked in my favour as it adds to the look and idea behind the image.

This was another type of expression/emotion edit that I thought turned out really well.  When I was shooting, I wanted to try the 'hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil' idea as a multiple imagery photograph.  First of all I attempted to put the three seperate images together to see if it looked more effective.  It did look quite good but I wanted to see what it looked like if I was to put the images over each other and lower the opacity so that you can see all of the individual photographs and I thought that the overall effect tat it gave off, was a lot more effective than when they were simply placed next to each other.  I am happy that I thought of this idea whilst I was shooting because the final edit has turned out really well and I am very happy with the way that it looks.  

What I Plan To Do Next

For my next shoot I am going to take photos of the same places throughout the day, to show how the different places change and how the people that are in the shot change.  I also want it to demonstrate the way that the scenario changes, such as the lighting of the sky, the street lights, the environment etc.  I think that this will be a really interesting area to look into and I hope that the photos will be really unique and demonstrate what I am trying to put across. 

Personal Shoot 3 Edits

Personal Shoot 3 Work Record

Preparation

Firstly, I need to make sure that I have enough space on my memory card to take lots of photos that I can piece together when it comes to shooting.  I also need to work out the type of photos that I am going to take so that I can edit my work together a lot easier than if I didn't have an idea of what I am going to do.  I thought that it would be a good idea to look at some images so that I already know the type of image that I want to produce.  Images like this are the type of photographs that I wish to mimic.

What I Hope To Achieve

I am hoping that I am going to be able to create images like the ones above.  Even though there is no structure to the actual look of the image I think that they are still really effective and I like the way that they look.  I am hoping that I am going to be able to get enough photographs so that I have a lot of variation for the editing process of this shoot.  I will shoot some with a lot of thought and then have a lot of random images that I will hopefully be able to piece together to make an effective overall image.

I thought that this photo turned out really well because of the brightness of each of the images.  This one was not planned whilst I was shooting, it was more of a spur of the moment in editing type of image.  I found all of the different images and thought that it would be interesting to see what they would all look like next to each other and it actually turned out really well.  The bright colours of the greens and the hints of yellow throughout make this image look really unique and vibrant.  By placing them all together I think that it adds to the overall effect of the image.  

This was another one of my favourite images from the shoot because of the repetition effect that it is giving off.  I used the same image four times to try and make it look like all of the small twigs were coming from the same place.  I think that this idea has worked well in my favour  with the overall look of the image making an impact.  I thought that to make it look a little more unique and interesting to look at, I would change two of the opposite images into a more sepia toned effect sot hat it was different to the other two.  I wasn't sure how this was going to turn out, but I think that it actually added to the overall look of the final image.  

What I Plan To Do Next

In regards to this shoot I am going to continue to make some interesting edits so that I have more of a variety.  For my next shoot I a going to look at expressions and how I can get them across to the viewer of my photographs.  I think that this is going to be really interesting to look at as there are many different ways in which you can present expression and emotion without using the very obvious way of simply placing all of the images together.

Plan for Future Shoots

Idea One

I think that I am going to look at creating some animations using various techniques to show multiple imagery in a different way.  I think that if I think of an interesting storyline to focus this shoot around, then I will be able to create a really unique animation to represent animation.  A good example of the type of animation that I would like to create is something like the work of Molly Watkins on YouTube:

I would like to create something similar to this, without using the chalkboard idea and just the animation idea.  I want to use the same idea of taking multiple images and then editing them all together to create an interesting storyline for the shoot.  I think that this is a good example of the type of animation that I would like to create.

Idea Two

I want to expand on the idea of taking photos of particular places at different times of day.  I think that to do this, I need to go to quite busy areas so that I can see an actual change in the scenery which is why I think that it would be a good idea to go to an area in London such as Trafalgar Square or Picadilly Circus so that the environment is constantly changing.  I might try and shoot so that I get there just before it starts getting dark so that you can see a significant change in the way that the scenery changes with all of the lights and the nightlife.

For example, these two photographs are taken from pretty much the same place but are obviously taken at different times of the day which I think highlights the way a particular environment can change.  I think that it is clever how the sky changes over Trafalgar Square and also how the lights around the base of the statue are lit and illuminate the ground.  I think that if I was to do this type of shoot then I would also try and capture the transition between the two to try and create a grid photograph.  I would really like to try and complete this shoot to the best of my ability but it may be difficult to get more than one area because it will be hard to capture the transitions all at the same time with only one camera. 

Idea Three

Much like idea one, I want to create an interesting animation video that I can use to represent some form of journey.  I would have to think of an interesting journey and storyline that I could take in order to make sure that I have a good idea of what I am going to do.  I think that it would be a good idea to do a journey on the train into an unknown area as I think that I could show this really well.  I might do this shoot when I go to visit a university open day as I'm not going to know where I am as it'll be a new place.  I created something similar of a 'journey to civilisation' shown below:

I thought that this was an interesting way to take photographs and to piece them together in a different way which is why I think that it would be a good idea to incorporate this multiple imagery idea into my project but with a lot more depth and thought behind it.  I want to be able to have a good storyline in mind before I go out shooting and I need to make sure that I have enough memory to make sure that I can take a lot of images to make a longer video, thus making a longer multiple imagery example.  In the video above, I ran out of memory on the camera which is why it finishes quite abruptly, however, this type I am going to make sure that I can take as many photographs as I want without any restrictions.

Idea Four

Another idea that I had in mind was to create some panoramic images using the multiple imagery technique.  I think that if I can find some good views or streets then presenting them through a panorama would be a different and interesting way of showing them.  I think that for this is would be a good idea to have a good variety of environment rather than just having panoramas of the city or just the forest which is why I think that I should go to lots of different areas so that I have a lot to edit together.  I like the idea of going to London again for this photoshoot as I think that there are a lot of views and streets that would be a really good way of creating unique panoramas.  I also like the idea of going down some areas that are covert and obscured so that I could maybe create some 360 degree panoramas so that the image sort of flows into one.  This would also be an interesting physical experiment idea.  I am thinking that I would like to try and create an image similar to this one to start off with and then expand what I am taking photos of to make the shoot more developed.

I like the idea of finding an interesting looking London skyline from the top of some buildings however finding the location would be quite difficult seeing as I don't really know where to look.  I could do some research into finding this out so that I am prepared for the day of shooting.  Even so, I already have an interesting location in mind where I can see the London eye and London bridge that I should be able to get access too quite easily.  This is definitely a good idea that I have in mind for future shoots.

Idea Five

At some stage I would like to try and create some surrealism photographs because I think tat they add a new dimension to the idea of multiple imagery and give off a dreamlike effect that is hard to create with very simple images.  I have a few ideas of how I could create these surreal images which include take photographs of lakes and trees and mainly forest themes and then editing all of the different photographs together in a way that is not the norm for photography.  Hopefully the idea that I have in mind will work out really well and I will be able to create some unique and interesting looking photos using photoshop and some basic editing skills. For particular inspiration on this topic I have been looking at the photographers Jerry Uelsmann and Thomas Barbey for their strong grasp of surrealism photography connoting the idea of multiple imagery through their work. Here are a couple examples of each photographers work that I am looking at for inspiration.

Jerry Uelsmann:

Thomas Barbey:

I really like the look of all of these images and I think that the effect that they all give off is highly unique and intricate and I would love to create something similar to these images, no matter how hard they may be to create.  I think that it is very clever how both photographers have managed to take the necessary photographs needed to piece together to make these surreal images that are very intricate and striking to look at.  I would love to create similar images to these and hopefully they will turn out as good as these photographers have.

Idea Six

I would like to look further into experimenting with multiple exposure as a form of multiple imagery because I think that it is a good way of demonstrating the different ways that you can put two or more images together.  I like the way that many photographers take advantage of this technique and I think that all of the different looks that the images give off are really intriguing and they can be very unique depending on the types of images that you put together.  To complete this shoot I am especially looking at the work of Aneta Ivanova and Christoffer Relander,  who I have looked at in great depth and therefore want to do a photoshoot entirely inspired by there work.  Here are some examples of the work that they have created:

Aneta Ivanova:

Christoffer Relander:

All of Christoffer Relander and Aneta Ivanova's work is relatable to what I want to create because it all involves a much deeper understanding of multiple imagery that involves multiple imagery in a good way.  I like the way that both of the artists get across all of their images because they don't simply use two seperate images.  They put at least two but usually have around 3 or 4 images together to create a much more diverse image.  I would love to be able to create photographs similar to these using the same type of techniques to experiment and see the type of image that I end up with.