Photography Original

Whilst taking photos of stairs I was drawn to the text and color and interested in the capturing the composition and depth of field at at an angle, whilst capturing the details of the bottom grey part of the steps.

In this photo I managed to achieve the aims that I have mention in the photo above.

When I was photographing this photo, I wasn't sure what I wanted to achieve from it, so I did what I know best, look, see, frame and shoot. It worked out well. I like how the forefront is clear and crisp and as the steps go further up it starts to blur out, to point that the background is the most blurred.

I was drawn to the traffic cone, sitting in the middle of a non public unused space, I like how the vibrant orange color contradicted the gloomy semi dark surrounding, so I captured this, making sure I framed the traffic cone at the forefront but at an angle that make your eyes attracted to the surrounding as much as traffic cone.

This is another photograph I took of the traffic cone, but slightly further away. I feel that the photograph above this worked better as it was close up, so therefore achieved what I wanted visually and how I want the viewer to see the image. 

This is a photograph I took of a bench I aimed to take the picture through the rings, as  that is an angle usually an onlooker would dismiss and not notice, and also because by framing the background or capturing the image through the rings as the viewer is forced to look through rings and the whatever is framed in that part of the photograph.
The picture is taken from an angle where the bench is forefront the frame and also taking up almost 3 thirds of the frame, so initially your eyes a drawn toward the bench first, before you steer towards the centre framed part of the photograph.    

In this image, i chose to keep the same aims as the photograph above except I  brought more of the background into the frame, so there is more to see. 

When I was at the train station I was looking around to see anything that would catch my eye,  I saw these group of kids playing football, and instantly I though of, the game you play where you join the dots up to create a picture; but at the same time I liked that this pattern I was seeing doesn't form any shape or has any definition to it, so at the same time it is quite serendipitous. 

This is an photograph I took of a statue, the images below are the text at the bottom of the statue. I feel this image was not successful in capturing anything that was visually appealing or that I could enhance and change to suit my criteria for my project. So I am definitely not choosing to include this in my final project. 

In This picture i was interested in capturing the text at the bottom, for its visual value but also because I  was considering of using text in my own project, and was possibly deciding to use indention as one of the methods. 

When I saw this, I was instantly attracted to the gate, as it reminded me of an olden style jail cell, and funnily enough even the empty space with just the bin in the corner, still portrays that sense of trapped environment. I also liked the symmetrical appearance of the gate and the fact that the 2 bars to the right are bent and unequal and the metal is rusty and turned orange at the corner of it. 

Here and the image below I was experimenting on taking the pictures at different angles, to try and capture it in the best possible way and sometimes its not about having a set idea of how you want to do things, but just doing it and seeing where it takes you. 

In this picture I have photographed the space between the building as the cars are parked along it, again the sense of symmetry and the negative space invaded by the individual walking along slightly off centre, intrigued my visual senses and so I captured this. 

When I was taking this picture, I was trying to attain an angle where the building is the main subject, then the eye is drawn to the background to the left; but by framing the building almost 3 thirds of the frame, I want the viewer to inspect the detail of the building, not for any particular reason except that the building has an olden architectural appearance to it, then to notice everything at the left of the photograph.  

Here I like how the double yellow lines follows around the path and is unequal yet the subject as a whole has a sense  of symmetry yet mystery to it, even though the purpose of the alleyway is quite obvious, but to look at it as an image can bring a whole new perspective to it.

This image is of bars inside a sort of maybe wire box or some kind of use for building and electrical work( I cant say exactly what it is,  unfortunately) however for my purpose it is quite fortunate; because I captured something that usually no one would pay any attention to; and manageg to capture it from a view that no body would take the time or thought to look through, I found it was exactly what I wanted to achieve from this picture. Mystery and confusion. I also like how the forefront of the bars are out of focus and the background is sharp and clear. 

In this image I did exactly the same as the picture above except the only thing in focus is the centre bars. By looking at it the viewer would be questionable as to what exactly the intentions of the space in between the bars is representing. 

I took a shot of this pathway because of the poles  running along it, so I  framed the photo so that the  rows and spaces between each pole was visible, up till the point, further back of the photo it was not technically possible to capture this.

When I saw this public bin I was at first amused at the idea of taking photos through it, just because passers will think I'v lost the plot, but as I was taking it, I realized in fact the subject, angle and the surrounding all together framed actually work well. The blue bin, the blue poles and quite coincidentally the man with the blue jacket who walked into the frame, have some kind of color coded systematical appearance.  

I got a lot of reaction off passers, saying, why are you taking pictures of that, its only a bin. What they don't know is, taking pictures of a mundaine through a professional dslr lens gives it a new perspective, but also because it a very boring subject, to me it made sense to give it a 'lime light' in a sense. Looking at the photo itself, I was quite pleased with this shot, as it was hard to take a photo in an area where there was no natural light coming through, so it took several shots to get it right. The fact that this was another non public space, with low bridges all the way to bottom, to other end, and the fact that no body would ever notice this, to me, made this an interesting subject to shoot. I'm quite pleased the photo itself is technically not so bad, there are some shadow and light visible and it is reasonably crisp shot.  

When I was looking down this alley way and saw the man walking down, in my head I was thinking, 'man in the middle'  (my rendition of M.J's man in the mirror) because I wasn't sure about him being in the frame, but once I took the picture, I  then felt that him being there made the photograph more interesting as it added a mysterious element, because in the shadow he appears all black; if he wasn't, there would have been a sense of missing element in the photo and would have seemed in complete as a photograph. 

I'm not overly ecstatic about this photo, I think the angle of the picture taken is too kitsch, if i had taken it from say below pointed upwards yet slightly to the side, I would have got a much interesting and better shot. I'm not pleased with the quality of the photo, its not as sharp and crisp as it could be.   

This photo and the photo below I quite like, because I managed to focus it well at the forefront and it is out of focus further behind. The angles of the shots however are mediocre, but having said that the quality of the photo is pretty good. 

I took this photo, because i was intrigued by the symmetrical appearance  of the scaffolding together with the shadow on the wall. So I tried to capture this in as many angles possible, being wary of the surrounding being in the frame and carefully framing it, according to what I felt looked appealing in that moment of time. 

         

This photo and the one below are my favorite out of all the pictures I've taken of scaffolding as it is in my opinion from an angle that isn't predictable and mediocre. I like how the one below this, the sky is mainly visible and that is the only surrounding you see amongst the scaffolding, it gives it a sense of peacefulness and calm, even though the subject itself the scaffolding is the opposite, very constructional, cold, and the metal material only serving as a aiding purpose. Man made v's nature.