Work Record Shoot 4

What I was hoping to achieve-
In this shoot I was hoping to achieve the goal of photographing my own personal journey from my perspective of walking the streets at night time. I wanted to include street lights, parked cars and other aspects of nightlife on the streets. In the editing stages I hope to be able to use different techniques to make the photos look more interesting and so that the journey aspect of each image can be magnified. Techniques included selective colour and the use of texture. I wanted to influence the street light in the images so that they were the only source of light in the whole shot.

What I actually achieved-
I was able to photograph from my point of view of me travelling around the streets, also the lighting from the street lamps were hugely influenced within all of my images which was something I really wanted to include within this shoot. I did use some techniques whilst editing for example smudge and duotone which worked really well and looks really nice. Parked cars and roads of the street are what I mostly photographed, I think with the added orange ting from the street lamps as well that the images visually turned out really nicely.

This is my favourite image from the range that I have produced, this is because the building and surroundings in the photo look really appealing and are completely different from anything in this shoot that i have photographed. I like that the orange ting of the street lights can be seen in the background because this is something that I really wanted to include in these images. I like how the building has shadows on one side that leads into darkness but at the same time blends with the rest of the photo. 

This is my least favourite photo out of all of them. The one thing that In love about this image is the colour that resinates from the light because it flows and fills the entire picture besides the black sky. The quality of this image is poor and not seriously clear, it seems a slight amount blurred. Another thing that i dislike about the photo is the way in which the street moved across the image because it has no significant difference from anything else in that section of the photo. I also don't feel that this is linked in with journey beside the point that its from my perspective. I feel that it could have been improved if a motion blur had been included to indicate movement within the photo.

Camera set up-
I used a Panasonic camera with a Olympus M.12-40mm f2.8 lens. I changed the Exposure to 1/60 secs, f2.8 and ISO 12800.

What I plan on doing next-
If I were to do another shoot then I would have liked to photograph cars in the day time from a side angle. I would want the photos to have loads of colour and be really vibrant because its not been included within my journey shoot much. I would want the framing of the photo to be very straight and have certain sections such as road-car- then above the car.

Overall I feel that this shoot could have gone better and that I could have included my theme throughout more. However some of the images look really nice due to the lighting and techniques that I have included.