Week 5 - task

This second photo obviously hasn't come out as clear as I would have liked. Unfortunately it was an overcast/ drizzly night so there are no stars and not real source of lighting in the photo. Still it shows the progression of time and that photography will not always go the way you want, sometimes to your advantage and in other times, like this one, not so much.

Week 4 - Task

Slow shutter Speed

Fast Shutter Speed

Quick Project 2 update

Just briefly I want to state somethings about my 2nd project.

I had thought to do my 2nd project as an animation or timelapse and then created a few practice works.
I wanted to show a journey compressed down to a few minutes.
I think is the better animation of the two so here it is:

After sharing with my tutor and getting some thoughts about this I am now undecided as to whether I continue with animation or move to photographs. Some more thought on this will obviously be required.

DSDN 144 - Project 1 - SPACE - Final Hand in

To make this easy to understand I have collected the posts required for the final hand-in, in order, in this post.

The Final Proposal
http://dsdn144godfrey-james.blogspot.com/2011/07/project-1-final-proposal.html

Artist Precedents
http://dsdn144godfrey-james.blogspot.com/2011/08/project-1-artist-precedents.html

Shoot 1 Contact Sheet
http://dsdn144godfrey-james.blogspot.com/2011/07/project-1-shoot-1-contact-sheet.html

Shoot 1 Favorite Photos
http://dsdn144godfrey-james.blogspot.com/2011/07/project-1-shoot-1-selected-photos.html

Shoot 2 Contact sheet and Flickr link
http://dsdn144godfrey-james.blogspot.com/2011/07/project-1-shoot-2-flickr-link.html

Shoot 3 Contact Sheet
http://dsdn144godfrey-james.blogspot.com/2011/07/project-1-shoot-3.html

Final Selected Photos
Final Chosen Pictures

Final Series

Project 1 - Artist Precedents

Trent Parke 

I looked at this photo and saw many things I wanted to include in my photography. One of them was an over the shoulder shooting style. I tried a few of these in shoot 3 which didn't really turn out well. I also liked how there was a clear foreground and background in this photo.

Erich Hartmann

This photo by Erich Hartmann appealed to me because of the direct contrast between the sides of the photo. I also noticed that this photo was divided into thirds. I tried to implement this in shoot 2 and 3 in a few photos. They worked well enough, but are not in my final submission.

Paul Fusco

I found this photo quite interesting upon seeing it. I liked the almost motion blurred edges and the slightly saturated colours in this. I tried playing with the saturated colours in my first shoot favorites. I also like how you know what the photo is of and can appreciate the photo even though nothing is really very focused.