Final Contact sheet

http://issuu.com/josieb/docs/final_contact_sheet

Follow the link above to see my final contact sheet for the first assignment.

A little more research wont hurt.

these are a few images that i found appeal to my ideas and structure of photography. im not sure how much water reflection i will find as i will be in the city. Were it hasn't rained in a few days, however i will try and capture the best, if it of buildings or trees.

2nd contact sheet

contact sheet for 2nd shoot.

http://issuu.com/josieb/docs/2s_contact_sheet

Artist inspiration.

http://www.davistim.com/index.html

After todays lecture i found that tim davis photography really captured the complexity and depth that reflection can bring to the frame. I hope to capture the same ideas and principals within my photography. However i don't think i will stick to one sort of reflection, like tim davis he concentrates mainly on advertisement of businesses at are brought into a neighbourhood. Although i would really like to capture Wellingtons unique characteristics within my reflections. Showing the everyday buzz of New Zealands capital city.

Mini World.

These are my attempts at the mini world project  for the week. I don't love either of them. I just feel that if i wanted to get a better outcome of these worlds i would re shoot my panorama's as they were a little hard to create a world out of as there was little scenery to work with in either of them. However i completed the task, just not as good as i had hoped.

Reflection Research.

Ideas and inspiration for my 2nd shoot!

Hopefully the weather clears up, but the puddles stick around as they are definitely my favourite.

If not windows, mirrors or glasses are always reliable. 

Changing idea.

Due to this photo (left) that i captured in my first shoot. I have decided to change my direction to spaces in a reflection. Newtown was such a struggle to capture so i hope with this idea the project will come together. Easily telling the viewer the story of the space around me. Within the photo I captured in my first shoot there is plenty of individual spaces that have been expressed, Mc Donalds, man shopping and cars driving past all within just one photo. I hope to use reflective materials around wellington to show my space, for example: A window, A glass, Puddles, mirrors, Sunglasses.

Automated Panomara's

Captured on seperate days obviously, My favourite is the panorama of Island Bay. (below)

Contact sheet

Follow this link to view my first contact sheet.

http://issuu.com/josieb/docs/first_shoot_contact_sheet

Proposal

Newtown Wellington lies in the southern part of Wellington, The Wellington City Council District Plan identifies Newtown as a suburb with an "identifiable or distinct character". What I hope to capture in my shoot in this space is the contrast between the unique and idilic decor of this town, aginst the grunging run down character that needs some 'tender loving care'. Newtown can have such a beautiful and characteristic house, stood right next to a graffiti sprayed run down shack. This unpredictable change is the situation I'm trying to find and express to others.

Research is going to be a massive part to this assignment, I hope to learn from others, the best ways of capturing the everyday seen objects, (for example a house) and create it into a masterpiece and then go from that extreme to the total opposite, capturing a run-down disaster. Although I also hope to find the unseen ways of capturing the suburbs characteristics, for example show newtown from behind a perfect picket fence instead of the picket fence being the main object.

This project is giving me a great excuse to explore my hometown surroundings and see for myself the beauties that lie within an older suburbs, and then also visibly see how it is so easily destroyed.

Research.

This is a fantastic way of capturing the decor on a house. Newtown is very known for it's decor on houses. Instead of just concentrating on the battered and the bruised parts of newtown, maybe i could make it into a contrast, kind of like Beauty and the beast idea of the wellington suburb.

Hopefully there is the same complex background like in the photo, to enhance this idilic looking decor.

Research.

Because my first shoot, didn't go as well as i had hoped, I wanted to have a research into other photographers ideas and pictures, so it will hopefully help me think more creatively and outside of the box.

This first image I found on Pinterest.com. It has the same sort of used/old/grungy feel to it. Which i tried to portray through my first photoshoot.
It also captures a scene were perhaps everyday you would just walk straight past. It is a part of the space, yet it is forgotten/ not seen. I hope to do this with my pictures.

Andrew Ross

Deciding a space was something that i considered to be an easy task, living in such an exciting, adventurous city. However i struggled, coming up with a unique and out of the ordinary place or space. 

After plent of thought of Railway station platforms and childrens play areas i came to the conclusion that technically where i live is out of the ordinary. Newtown has such a historic feel to it's Architectural buildings, the olden day presence that is preserved in shop fronts and finally the small decor that is around, just waiting to be captured.

This is an image by Andrew Ross. Within this picture he not only captures the uniquely built buildings but also the complex roads surrounding it and also the modernized transport systems that have been put in place over the city to create better public transport. I hope to capture these this within my photo's with a more vibarent feel to it. Because this picture captures Newtown when its low, quiet and preserved bring out it's natural beauty.

Panoramic

This is my panorama attempt of a set of houses in Newtown. I did it manually and it was a lot harder than i thought, because i decided to create the image on a rotating angle. The lines of the houses don't match up as perfectly as i had hoped. However still pleased with the outcome.

Precedent Three.

 

Pete Souza is the Chief Official White House Photographer for President Obama; he is also the Director of the White House photo office. However these images were interesting, they weren't the collection that captured my attention.

After stumbling across his website i found out that this photojournalist had been on many worldwide adventures, one being a trip to Afganistan. This collection was the one that spoke a thousand words. He corectly and critical displayed the truth about life over there within our modern day society. Poverty, violence and destruction is part of the every day life to these people. He conveys such moving photography that it was hard not to be sucked in to wanting to see more.

I understand that my shoot of Newtown wont be so heart-breaking or moving but i do hope that i can pick up on the contrasting camera techniques that he visualises. So you can see the story he is telling visit his website. I think the photo's do there job. They speak a thousand words.

http://www.petesouza.com/gallery.html?gallery=The%20Road%20to%20Kabul

Precedent Two.

Mark Power born in 1959 in the UK. He (accidentally) 'became a photographer' in 1983, and worked in the editorial and charity markets for nearly ten years, before he began teaching in 1992.

Mark Power joined Magnum Photos as a Nominee in 2002, became an Associate in 2005, and a full Member in 2007. Meanwhile, in his other life, he is Professor of photography at the University of Brighton, a city on England's south coast where he lives with his partner Jo and their children Chilli (b.1998) and Milligan (b.2002), although currently they are based in Krakow, Poland.

Not only do I like this man for where he used to be based. Brighton, E.Sussex. As that is where i was born. His ability to capture a stunning image is not rare. when flicking through his collection on magnum photo's, I stopped puzzled as to what i was looking at. This ability to capture the audience in disarry is fantastic. This was the main picture that captured me. Take on such a unique angle he has shared with the world what we would usually not see.

I hope to capture images like this within my shoots, using the normal everyday events but seeing them from the complete opposite dimension. Creating a new focal point and form. The centre of attention is obviously the tv screen, everyone is facing it. Yet he shows this situation in such an unseen form.

Precedent One.

Canadian Larry Towell was born in 1953. His business card reads 'Human- Being'. Towell grew up in a large family in rural Ontario. During studies in visual arts at Toronto's York University, he was given a camera and taught how to process black and white film.

In 1984 he became a freelance photographer and writer focusing on the dispossessed, exile and peasant rebellion. He completed projects on the Nicaraguan Contra war, on the relatives of the disappeared in Guatemala, and on American Vietnam War veterans who had returned to Vietnam to rebuild the country. His first published magazine essay, 'Paradise Lost', exposed the ecological consequences of the catastrophic Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound. He became a Magnum nominee in 1988, and a full member in 1993.

After this he then recieved a variety of awards, he was also involved in exhibitions, books, documentraries, collections and other film based project. All round he has been a pretty busy man. What i loved about his work was his ability to capture the unexpected within the landscape. He is able to capture human-being reactions or movements in many different situations, yet disregard there facial features, it is all baout capture body movement or human presence. He descrbes this further within this quote, "If there's one theme that connects all my work, I think it's that of land-lessness; how land makes people into who they are and what happens to them when they lose it and thus lose their identities." (Larry Towell)

I would like to create the same feel within my work. Newtown is a busy place and there is bound to be human presence within my photographs, However i don't want the human presence to over power the picture. Being able to capture a person at the right time create a loss of the individuals identity. This can be staged in many portraits, but just like larry towell i will hopefully be at the right place at the right time.

This photo below is one of Larry Towells and i feel he has captured the moment well, in order to leave the audience asking many questions, like Who? Where? How? i hope to embrace the same aspect.