Shannon - Overview

This project has been quite an experience for me.

It was based around problem solving and team work, this is exactly what happened and followed through without many complications.

I feel that team work is a great way to work as a module as such as this, it gets people talking and out into the more professional standard of working - Great practice for those who are going into the industry, especially for working within a company.

Personally it was great practice for me as I am currently trying to set up my own business with a friend!

More modules like this please! :)

Shannon - Lighting

We used the window light to create a more natural approach to photographing the portraits. Flash gave a 'cheaper' feel to the images.

Here is the difference it made in images:

With Flash

Using available lighting

Shannon - Body Language between Genders

I noticed that there seemed to be a recurring theme in terms of the body language between genders.
The boys held the board at the side and the girls held it infront of them.

I think it shows how self conscious girls are, so they hide themselves.

Whereas guys show themselves off more in comparison.

Final chosen images

So today as a group we decided on these 5 final images, taken from both shoots. 

We have chosen these images for the following reasons...

-All photographed using natural light only

-All consist of drawings which tell us a lot about the shop workers owners

-Portrait orientation compositions

-Compositions consist of head shoulders and mid way down legs

-Backgrounds which suggest shop types eg.clothing

Shoot 2 Thoughts-Rebecca

Last Wednesday we did our second and final shoot on self image. This shoot proved harder because we went in many of the shops around the northern quarter in our first shoot so had to go a little further around the area. I think overall more said no in this shoot as we only only ended up with 5 photographs/ people saying yes. For this shoot we considered lighting and composition a lot more because we had to think of final results. We told the subjects to stand near a window or door so we could have as much natural light as possible. We didn't really guide the shop workers to much on positions of pads because where they seemed to put them was quite telling in how much confidence they had. My role during the shoot was again location shots (as seen in an earlier post), this was again to give an idea of context.

Favourite Image from Shoot 2-

This is my favourite image from shoot 2. Even though there is no real story behind what/ how he has drawn himself, it gives viewers an insight into this persons personality, I think the shirt does too. The amount of natural light has worked well. I think this is a strong contender to be a final image but will be cropped to be portrait as mentioned by Ben in previous post. The surroundings of this person also reflects his clothing trend.

Cropping

We wanted to keep the cropping of the photographs the same throughout the set of images in order to create some sort of pattern and flow to them. We initially started taking the photographs in portrait however in the second shoot we though that if we were to take the photographs in landscape, we would have the ability to crop each image down so that they were all the same size.


Traditionally, many portraits would be a head and shoulder shot only however due to us having a sketch pad with a drawing on it, we decided to get the top half or the body down to the middle of each persons body into the shot. The full length body shots that we have taken will be cropped down to the uniform size of the rest of the photographs in order to follow the fashion of the others.




Ben Stokes

Body Language

The body language of each person is one of the key elements of the photographs because I believe that you can learn and read so much about a person by the way that they pose when confronted with a camera. I will now share my thoughts on the body language of each of my favourite photographs.

The body language of the above man is quite stiff, this suggests to me that he is uneasy with getting his photograph taken but from the drawing you would think that he would be quite relaxed about this because he see's himself as an action figure. His eyes also give away his vexed look, you can see some fear in his eyes, from getting his photograph taken. 

From the above photograph, I take it that this man is quite confident because unlike the previous photograph his stance is quite open. His tensed arm shows that he sees himself as a dominant person and this is backed up by his dress sense. His drawing also says something about him as a person, he is a confident person who sees himself as a comic book hero. 

The above man says to me that he is neutral, he is not scared about having his photograph taken and he is not over confident about it. There may also be a message in the fact that he has only chosen to draw his head and not his full body.

This photograph looks to me that the man is fairly uneasy about his photograph being taken and from what I can remember when we talked to him, this photograph shows this. He was willing to help us but slightingly uneasy at the same time.

This man was another confident person, with a open stance he looks like he is comfortable getting his photograph taken.

Each viewer may read each image differently.

Ben Stokes