My digital photos were inspired by multiple photographers as I aimed to incorporates many photographic styles.
Tom wood
Tom wood Is a British street and landscape photographer who has progressively taken photos throughout his area over a decade - a theme I wish to adapt to my final piece. His work features locations from pubs to football grounds around Merseyside. I aimed to photograph areas I'm familiar with while also incorporating Tom Wood's idea of photographing from a bus window in his 'All zones off peak' series. |
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I was also inspired by Uta Barth's out of focus series which I already detailed here as well as typologies which I also explored here
I planed on incorporating the idea of out of focus images in order to obscure the images and fit with my chosen theme while creating a typology would link all of my images together.
I planed on incorporating the idea of out of focus images in order to obscure the images and fit with my chosen theme while creating a typology would link all of my images together.
I took photos that fell under 4 main categories:
General Blur
As I enjoyed taking 'bokeh' style pictures in which orbs of light could be seen I aimed to take pictures near a road where I could capture head lights. A large aperture allowed me to further blur the picture so that the orbs would be more distinguished.
Motion
I was able to experiment with capturing motion while taking my images, by adjusting my cameras shutter speed. For the majority of these images I had a speed of around 3 seconds, images taken above this speed tended to come out too bright due to the long exposure. I found that panning the camera as a vehicle passed enabled it to appear far longer that it actually was.
Shops
In order to document a journey I took pictures of shops from the bus window, with a quick shutter speed I was able to capture the majority of shops with little to no motion blur although I did purposely take them out of focus to follow the idea of obfuscation.
Signs
I had originally planned obscuring the lens with a material such as cling film or baking paper but found that the baking paper was to opaque while you could see straight through the cling film. The idea of taking pictures of signs also falls under a typography, I felt it was a convenient way to document my journey and give instructions but would be of no use to an individual if the image was distorted