Sunday, 30 November 2014

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.

Monday, 24 November 2014

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.

Monday, 10 November 2014

David Bailey

Photography research on studio photographers



David Royston Bailey
Born in Leytonstone, England on Jan 2nd 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 88th 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.