REASEARCH SHOOT 2

RESEARCH SHOOT 2 - water reflections.

SHOOT PLAN:

Material: canon 60d camera

Models: a man and a girl dressed in normal outdoor clothes for some of the photographs.

Where: Wetlands Centre on a day where there is some sun

When: middle to the end of the afternoon

Aims: in this shoot I want to develop the idea of photographing in water and ice reflections started in the previous shoot, this time including some human figures in it, as I thought this might add something to the idea of linking the theme indistinct to the way distant or faint memories work. I decided to do this shoot in the same location of the previous one, as the Wetlands Centre has many possibilities in terms of water reflections. I want to do start it at more or less the same time of the day, as sometimes is good to work with reflections when the sun is still high (or as high as it is in this time of the year - winter) and then keep working with the light as it comes down and the light gets a warmer tone.
I want to keep on the work started on the previous shoot, paying attention to the whole composition of the image and the role the light plays on it, but this time focusing on having a bit more content connecting the photographs.

RESULTS:

I think this shoot worked better than the previous one in terms of getting the message I wanted across. Including the human figures in it brought another dimension that came to add up something to the natural forms. Although all the ice had already melted it was very interesting to explore the possibilities of the water as a reflective surface. If there is movement in it gives a distorted image, similar to an impressionist painting. If it’s very still and the sky very blue, it works as a very clear mirror and sometimes only looking twice we realize there is a different nearly dreamy quality about that image. Sometimes the reflection is totally abstract and beautiful in itself giving a calm feeling only by looking at it. The water puddles also gave interesting results as the image came fragmented, making it feel very related to my theme. I liked this idea of showing only part of the image instead of distorting the whole image to make it look unclear, so for the next shoot I would like to carry this through.


Chosen images: I chose 5 images whose compositions where harmonious and that could also convey this feeling of something that is there but we can’t fully see it. I think all images have that quality about them, individually and as a group. They are telling something, but the message comes in pieces and even putting them all together, there are holes to be filled.