Evaluation
For this shoot I wanted to
capture the famous tourist points of Brighton as well as the busy crowded
places like the beach and the pier, I set my camera to F22, ISO 200 and a
shutter speed of 1/125. To begin with, I experimented with shooting at different
angles as well as using landscape and portrait images. I shot the crowded beach
the most, as the seaside is the main element of Brighton. I also took a lot of
different photos with different angles of the Brighton Eye, as it was a really
sunny day, so the sky was bright blue and the Eye looked great in contrast with
the blue. The pier has a massive light up sign which I liked because it
literally said "Brighton Pier", so I shot photos of this with the
intention that I would create an animation of the lights changing, but this did
not work out because it was difficult to capture the same positioned photo, as
people were walking across the pier and seagulls were flying about. However, I
did like the shots I got with the seagulls in them, as this added to the beach
side theme. Overall, this shoot was extremely successful because I got a lot of
photos out of it, and I was also able to create two animations out of a few
images.
This is one of my shots of
the Brighton beach and pier in the background. I like this photo a lot, and
took some very similar shots of the same view, as I wanted to make sure I had a
few good images. When editing, I decided to change this photo into black and
white as it adds an old, vintage vibe to the image, and it reminds me of people
in the olden days swing dancing and hanging out in the streets with loads of
friends, but modernized, as it is on the beach and there are loads of busy
crowds on the beach. I also like that the pier is the length of the image,
which I adjusted by cropping it in Photoshop. This photo was also inspired by
Martin Parr along with my other beach photos, as I wanted to execute the same
feeling of the seaside and enjoyment, which Parr does in his images.
This is one of my shots of
the Brighton pier. I like this photo especially because of the angle, as most
of my pier shots were straight forward, whereas this one is at an angle
slightly. I cropped the image so that the sign was in the center, and also so that
the flags were meeting the top of the image. This is an image that I think
particularly identifies Brighton in its best light, because the pier is a
significant tourist attraction for the city. However, I would like the photo to
be a little brighter, and therefore my re-edit this image as I like the over
saturation of colours in my other images, as they are very Martin Parr-esque,
who was my inspiration.
This is one of the
animations I made of the Brighton beach and the wheel. For this animation I
used Photoshop timeline and used the images I shot which were extremely
similar, this makes it look as though the wheel is turning, people are walking
and moving and there is also a seagull flying across the shot. I like this
animation a lot as well as the others that I have created. I think the movement
of the sea and everything else really captures what Brighton is like, which was
my aim with this shoot. I enjoyed creating this animation and plan to create
many more within this project.
Progression
In my next shoot, I plan to
visit London Hyde Park, and show a contrast of busy Brighton as oppose to a
less busy place in London. My aim is still the same, to shoot people naturally
so that I capture their true expressions. After this shoot, I did plan on going
into busier places in London such as Oxford Street and Central London but there
are many reasons as why I cannot do this. Therefore, after my Hyde Park shoot I
plan to shoot locally - but want to focus on one model rather than loads of
people in the streets. This will help my work transition from street
photography into portraiture.
