Locational Photography Plan

Types of indoor and outdoor locational photography.

                    Indoor:                                         Outdoor:

                  Churches                                       Architecture

                  Fashion                                         Urban Fashion

             Basketball Games                              Football Games



















Locational Photography can be a wide range of things, from fashion to sports. This photo is outdoors and is took in a place where everyone knows. The photographer had took the photo during the night to capture light streaks off the bus.
In the Birmingham area I would take this photo at the market near the church.

This photo is taken in an area where it's not very known to the public.
This photo was taken with HDR effect to capture the dark grey sky.
In Birmingham I would take a photo similar to this in the Tyseley Railway Museum.

This photo was taken most likely in a field full of colourful flowers. It has been taken with a wide aperture to decrease its depth of field. So the flower stands out from the background. If I had to take this photo I would take in the Botanical Gardens near me.







Churches (My Locational Photography)

For my locational photography assignment I'm going to take take photos of churches.
This I really like. I love the archway into the church and how the greenery has taken over but has still kept the shape of the doorway. In Birmingham I would go to St. Edburgha's where I live because the church had green moss on the walls too.

 Once again I love the area where the church is. Surrounded by greenery makes this place a haven. The water down below makes you feel relaxed and calm. Unfortunately there is nothing like this in Birmingham so I will have to make do with what I have.

Compared to the other churches this one is not that spectacular. Although it's not set in an area where there is plenty of nature, this church is more common. Set in a village and people see these types of churches everyday, but also is a challenge to capture a picture similar to this people who have to travel far too find a village in such a niche area.

6 Iconic photos that are being recreated plan

Next is a photo of Bobby Fischer. I'm just going to change the person. The lighting I will use is a studio light with a defuser on the right hand side. On the left hand side I will use a background light and a key light to the right which will be undiffused to get high contrast. He was the world champion of chess.

 The photo is a iconic photo of Clint Eastwood. Im going to replace the guns with toy guns and a white background. This photo I'm going to take outside no artificial light will be used. Clint Eastwood is very famous for spaghetti westerns.

 This will be taken in a a studio and will be using one key light facing head on and one background light to cancel the shadows.

This photo I'm going to get two people and the person holding the gun will be holding a game controller or A Justin Bieber CD. This photo will not need article light due to the photo being taken outside.

This photo of Michael Caine is going to be recreated by me by putting funny glasses on my friend. The light will be on the left hand side at 45 degrees at the same time the background fully lit up.

David Bailey

Photography research on studio photographers

David Royston Bailey

Born in Leytonstone, England on Jan 2^nd 1938

Born in Leytonstone, England, David Bailey had to gather some jam sandwiches and head to the cinema with his family because it was cheaper than putting on the gas fire. He said “I bet we saw at least seven to eight movies a week” David had a terrible time when he was three years old. He remembered those bombs from World War two hitting his house. (Alfred Hitchcock lived the road opposite)

In one school year he only attended around 34 times and left school on his birthday when he turned fifteen. From there he became a copy boy for the Yorkshire Post. After he done his dead end jobs, Mr Bailey got called up for National Service.

While in the RAF (Royal Air Force, 1957) in Singapore David had his trumpet taken off of him and instead he bought a Rolleiflex camera. In August 1958 he was demobbed and wanted to peruse a career in photography so he went out a bought a Canon rangefinder camera. He wasn’t allowed to attend London College of Printing because of his school record so he became the second hand man of David Ollins.

He acted as the studio dogsbody while earning £3.50 a week (£3 10 shillings) He was happy when he was called to have an interview with photographer John French. He was for John Cole’s Studio Five before offered a contract for fashion photographer for British Vogue magazine later the same year.

David Bailey has taken many photos but he’s most famous photo is of Queen Elizabeth II.

David Bailey took and released this photo in celebration of the Queen 88^th birthday.

He also took a picture of other many famous people including:

Michael Caine

Here Michael Caine looks very sinister. David cropped the image to you as a viewer to only focus on the foreground (Michael) and not the background.

Mick Jagger

In this photo David Bailey wanted to pull off the eskimo type of feel with Mick Jagger. That or he is freezing cold. Once again David has gone with the close up portrait so we can focus on him and only him.

Taste of Digbeth

                           

                         In this photo you see all types of variety.

                        The shapes are spread all across the doorway and colour is spread across all shapes.

                        Their are different types of texture in the photo. There are smooth walls with a bump 

                        because the paint is applied. The door it self looks rough and if you run your hand

                        over, you will get splinters. In Photoshop I sharpened the image to give it a crisp
                        feeling.

                      

                              This image shows lots of effects. You can imagine that the ripples of the water are

                               bumpy. The reflection of the gate into the water makes it look like the gate is

                               bending and twirling. I decided to take this picture at this angle because I wanted
                              capture the water ripple and also the gate. This photo in Photoshop I done two
                              major things to improve the photo. First thing I done was I brightened the image
                              to make it clearer and then I sharpened the image to make it realistic.

                                            

                         This photo has texture, tone and line. The texture comes from the brick and how its

                         boiled/bubbles up. When you run your fingers across its bumpy. Tone is from the
                        colours. Their is a massive scale of colours from light purple/pink too. I took it at this
                        angle because I wanted to capture the colour of the graffiti and the shallow depth of
                       field. This image I enhanced the image quite a lot. First I change the colour of the
                       graffiti from a dull red to a bright and vivid purple. After that, in order for me to
                       bring life into the picture and produce high definition I sharpened the image.

                        This photo is of a fountain in use. I took this outside but in the custard factory. I tried
                      to capture the water as it flows threw the air and I precisely did that. I walked right to
                     the edge of fountain and use full maximum zoom (55mm). I am interested in capturing
                    the movement of the water but also freezing it like all time as stopped. In Photoshop
                    all I did was sharpen the image. I would of liked to have change the depth of field to
                    make the camera focus on the water fountain and blur out the background. The work
                    I done in Photoshop did improve the quality of the image.

                    This picture is a picture of a building with windows all in line with each other. I shot
                    this in the Custard Factory. I saw the building and took it from this angle because I
                    wanted to capture the symmetry and the levels of brightness. If you look at the top of
                    the windows the brightness is very dark and gets lighter the further down and captures
                    the reflection of the sky. Initially the image was very dark because my ISO was low.
                    So in Photoshop I made the brightness lighter and also sharpened the image.  For this
                    image my ISO setting was 125. I think it should of been on 200.

               

                       This shot was taken inside the Custard Factory. When I took the first image
                       and looked I realised it was too dark so I turned on the flash and got and amazing
                       result. I took the image looking up to make it seem the people are falling on the
                       camera.  In photo shop I sharpened the image and made the background black and
                       white but left the people in their original colour. My work in Photoshop has
                       improved my image a lot by focusing on one thing which is the people falling.

               This picture is of graffiti on the side of a building by the Custard Factory. I took the photo at
               this angle to capture as much of the graffiti as possible. In Photoshop I brightened the image
               and then I sharpened it also I changed the contrast. To improve I could have adjusted the
               angle for zoom length. For an imaginative feel, you could imagine your hand rubbing on the
               bricks but I wont be rough it will be smooth because the layers of the paint with make it
               smooth.

                 This photo is of a building outside the Custard Factory. The main subject of this photo is
                 to capture the three different colours spread across the buildings. The main point of the
                 photo is to capture of easy and quick the colours meet but don't look odd. I'm interested
                 in this photo because where the pink paint peels away. In Photoshop I never touched the
                 image I felt as if the colours where strong enough to stand out on there own. I guess I can
                 improve the image by cropping out the sky and only focusing on the building.
             

                           
 

               

               

Task 1: Discussing two images from two different photographers.

Researching two urban landscape photographers. 

Tom Manley

Iain Hutchinson

These images by Tom and Iain have one thing in common. They both have an old style building. As you can see, Tom has gone for the route where he wants you to focus on the building and the building only. However he may have took the picture on purpose with the bus in view to give the image colour. 

Iain has gone for a more scenic route with his building. He wanted to capture the reflection in the water and capture the trees dying in winter to give it a creepy feel. 

Also one more difference is that Tom has original. colour, where as Iain has shot it black and white.

I believe that Iain shot the photo in black and white to give it more of a scary and mysterious aspect of a still image.