Previous work.

Previous work

A little before i started at CCAD i did a photo shoot with my friend out in the streets granted they are not candid shots but i feel some of them do give of a bit of a street photography style so i'm just going to include them in this blog as examples of my work.

This image is one of many, it took me a while to achieve what i wanted to with the focus in this shot. Its only slight but the arm is the subject in this photo and is in focus more so than the rest of the body and the background. I liked this because of the contrast between the different focus'. I thought this kind of fitted the street photography project because well one it's out in the street, in a public place but also someone passing you or someone else something in the street can happen quite a lot, and although it is staged and i asked him to do this it still to me has an urban and street photography feel.

This images looks a lot less staged and i felt that in this image the how he is stood is something that you could actually find in a street anywhere in the world. People staring, and people smoking in the street is something that happens every minute of every day. In this i liked how he is leaning forward as though he is trying to look right down the street and the smirk he has on his face would make you wonder what he was looking at and thinking about if you were the viewer of the photograph. It gives gives the photo a mystery feel to its audience and it leaves them thinking and wondering. 

This photo does look really staged but i felt this is an expression you could find in the street with almost anyone, and the way he looks off camera makes you think about what he could be looking at and his expression makes you make an assumption whether the thing he is looking at is good, bad, interesting or intriguing.
I really like the use of facial expressions in street photography because i really like giving the viewer of my photo's that mystery feel that makes them have to write there own conclusion on what was happening in the surroundings where the image was taken, and i feel most, if not all photographers want this too for the viewers of their photo's.

These photo's were taken using a Nikon D3100 digital SLR.
I edited them on Adobe Photoshop by converting them over to black and white, and messing with contrast and shadows. I darkened the shadows slightly in all three images and them upped the contrast slightly just to give the black, grey and white tones a sharper look so they weren't so soft.