Unit 305 , Theme 2 Social and Documentary.

I have had to , very late on , being forced by my poor time keeping to change the subject matter for my 2nd theme. Instead of Architectural interiors and exteriors I have now chosen from Task 1a Social and documentary and will use my son's under 11 cricket team as the main subject.

Below are a few shots I took of a game on the 21st May at Burton Cricket club between Burton and Dunstall cricket club.

Theme 1 Research , Nicholas Goodden.

"If you produce a good photo that people enjoy then it's mission accomplished.
I'm not a snob, I don't care if someone uses film or digital, a professional camera, a Polaroid or their phone, retouches with Photoshop or not.
Photography is simply being in the right place at the right time, ready to shoot and seeing things others don't." 

Nicholas Goodden is a photographer based in London since 1999 who mainly pictures London urban scenes , according to his website he was also the winner of the f/Factor award at the London Photo Festival 2011. 


His main body of work is street scenes of London but there are many other areas which he excels in with really good images from still life pictures of flowers to really interesting images taken on the London Underground as shown below. 

I particularly liked this one , to have captured this woman looking exactly how you would imagine yourself feeling,  takes a lot of patience and self belief within you.To be able to ignore all the surrounding noise of people and what must be busy platform and also being able to get on with your photography without being unnerved by people staring  at you and maybe complaining to you takes great skill. The above image is titled " Cosy " with a comment by Nicholas of ," That face sums up the feeling we all have when packed like cattle and sniffing our fellow passenger's armpit". Sums it up precisely.

Big Ben Tilt Shift .

Brittany Tilt-Shift.

Dorset Tilt-Shift

East London Tilt-Shift.



Terminal 5 Tilt-Shift.







http://www.nicholasgooddenphotography.co.uk/Portfolio_357485.html

Theme 1 Research , Derek Clark Photography.

I have found it very difficult to find a body of work by just one photographer showing images in the tilt shift style. I have up to now just found a few, one of which is Derek Clark. Derek works mainly as a wedding photographer in Lanarkshire , Scotland , but also pictures live musicians as well as playing music live himself. It was through a internet search engine I came across his website and within it found a project he had  completed called Miniature Glasgow. A link is shown here.
 http://www.derekclarkphotography.com/index.php/projects/miniature-glasgow/

Above shows a picture taken by Derek of a street scene in front of the Royal Infirmary in Glasgow. All though the miniature effect does seem to work quite well his chose of angle and his composition could have been better. The picture to me is spoilt by the inclusion of the window ledge to the left in the forefront and the degree of the angle the image has been taken is a little too steep. Saying that I do like how he has been able to keep the top right of the building on the right in focus while the top left of the image is blurred. The people crossing the zebra crossing have worked well and do look like miniature models. Looking at it to me this has been digitally edited either photoshop or another program. The colour's have been increased as this looks to have been a typical wet Scottish day. By doing this he has given the picture more vibrancy and more of a sense of the scene being of a model.  

Above is my image with a similar feel to it .This was taken from a roof car park in Burton upon Trent . I have widened the area of the focus band within the tiltshiftmaker website. By doing this I have kept a larger area in focus thus increasing the tiltshiflt effect to include the car in foreground through to the people towards the background . This has worked well as I've made the buildings in the right of the picture look like models in a town town. My angle used is a much shallower one , I found this has helped to get a better balance to the blurring thus helping the viewer to imagine they are kneeling down and peering into the street scene.

Above we see another of Derek's miniature / tiltshift pictures , this time taken again in Glasgow but in a Arts galleries museum. This I do like a lot . As you can see this time the focus band does not run parallel at the bottom of his image but does to the top around the stone pillars , this must have been done within Photoshop and works very well. Or he has cropped the picture and slightly tilted the image to give this effect. Again the vibrance and the colours have been increased to maximise the effect of a miniature scene.

Here is my take on his image , this was taken from the upper floor of a shopping centre again in Burton. As you can see it's not as well lit as Derek's image but does have a similar feel to it . My colours are a little bolder then his which makes it feel more miniaturized but his digital processing to create the effect is better . I will re process mine to try and create a better image.