RESEARCH SHOOT 3

RESEARCH SHOOT 1

SHOOT PLAN:

Material: canon 60d camera

Models: a man and a girl for some of the shoots.

Where: Clyne Gardens, Swansea

When: middle of the afternoon

Aims: in this shoot I intend to investigate about showing only parts of the image clearly and ways of doing this: cutting elements that wouldn’t usually be cut of; using a shallow depth of field so that the background is blurred; shooting through some sort of barrier; using perspectives that might make viewers feel we are shooting the wrong piece of the scene.

RESULTS:

I think this shoot keeps in line with the previous one in that the aimed feeling is starting to be there, but this atmosphere is achieved by different means. Isolating parts of a scene, shooting details and blurring the background also works in trying to create this feeling of fragmented indistinct memories. There’s nothing I feel that has particularly failed in this shoot, but it gives me the feeling that I need to work more with the possibilities I now have available.


Chosen images: whilst the 5 chosen images from the previous shoot made me think more of memories of a dream, due to the dreamy and a bit surreal quality given by the water, the 5 chosen images in this shoot make me think of old memories, images we suddenly remember but can’t quite place in time and space. The atmosphere of these memories seems to be a light one, memories of relaxed times, although there is something mysterious about them as well.