Panic

I actually cant beleive that i didnt know our images had to have a link connecting them. I thought i could have one if you wanted it too but i really didnt know what this was a vital part. I am now flicking through my images trying to find some type of link to connect them together. I have something in mind, lets just hope it works for all images. Fingers crossed!

Michael Lavine - Grunge

I know i have already looked at some of his work however it is some of my favourite so i had a look through the book and found some more images i really like and almost wish i could create. And no doubt i will reference this book any chance i can. defiantly my favourite.

i just love the skate punk style! (tried my best not to say love but genuinely, i love this book more than my nana) I think i might be obsessed. Like that these are more posed images, i also really like the location. Quite run down and appropriately a 'grunge' area. i am really glad that this photographer has decided to capture these images in black and white as i don't thin they would be half as goof in colour.

Shoots

Yesterday i decided that i would go back to Redcar to re-shoot a roll of film that didn't work out as planned earlier in the project. The camera i was using wasn't working properly so the film didn't wind on. Basically just a blank film. Hopefully it will be second time lucky and i will have some really nice shots from this attempt. I'm really quite scared about processing this as i think i have some really nice ones and it will be too late to re-shoot for the 3rd time. Also be a new location to add to my work as Ive shot a lot in Hartlepool and Middlesbrough.

I also need to print some images from my contact sheet 9 and 10. So im going to have to go in tomorrow to get this done and also start to scan my final prints in and get that side of the work done. Time is no longer on my side.

Digital Images

Not really good images but they are some digital versions of some of the street photography images i have taken... could do with getting a few more and comparing what they look like in colour compared to black and white (this was the idea behind going out and getting these few however i got distracted by christmas shopping)

The Photo Book

Below are just some pictures that i found in 'The Photo Book' that i liked and wanted to incorporate into my research. 

Eva Besnyo - Starnberger Street

i like this one because of the high angle view. i think that i would feel more confident taking pictures of the street like this because i wouldnt have the added pressure of worrying what people would say. they wouldnt see me. i also like how you can get a clear view of the shadows created by the people/objects. i like the detail that this creates. 

Robert Frank - Parade, Hoboken, New Jersey

Lady in the window is blocked out by the flag. This is a good use of the prop in the image. Makes you think that something is going on outside that they are interested in, yet they are not the main focus of the image. its more about what is going on outside. This is were the title is important because this is saying what is happening out side with out you actually seeing it. 

Helen Levitt - New York

I really like old images of kids having fun and playing out side. I don't think that there is enough of this now. World isn't as safe as it used to be so i think images like this should be treasured and remembered as there wont be many more like this of this generation

Graham Smith - 'The Zetland' Middlesbrough

Doesn't have anything to do with street photography but you gotta love the Zetland. Still the same as it was back in the day. Full of wierd characters and sleezy men!

Thomas Struth - Unconscious Places

Like the lines created by the telephone wires. Gives a geometric feel to the image along with the windows and balconies etc. This is focusing more around the buildings in the street rather than people. I like the peaceful nature of the shot. 

Contact Sheet - 10

The outcome on this roll of film actually surprised me. Some of the images i took out of the car window and wasn't expecting them to come out too well, however i think that they are really good. I also tried to experiment a bit with refection's in the shoot, taking pictures into windows and puddles. But i don't think that it has really worked out how i imagined it in my head and may take a bit of practise before i actually get the hang of it.

At least 12 frames of this roll were no good because i attempted to do a bit of night photography with it and as i have never done it with film before i wasn't too sure how to get it right because i couldn't really check like you would be able to on a digital camera.

Enlargements: 

this was taking as i was moving so i wasn't expecting it to be perfect, but i really wanted to capture this and couldn't really stop so i decided to just take it anyway and hope for the best. I do really like the image and i wish that id didn't show as much movements as it does. I'm really quite sad that this didn't work out as it was one that i was really looking forward to seeing. 

 

 

 

This is one of my favorite images from the shoot. i like the way that the man is the main focus in the shoot. I think that its really simple and i like the way that there is pictures covering the shop window behind the subject. This adds detail and doenst make the image as dark as it would be if it was just empty. i really like the compostion hwever i wish i moved in a bit closer to try and get the mic in a better position so that it wasnt covering the guys face. I also cropped into this image a bit when in the darkroom as there was the top of the bench in the bottom of the frame what i really didnt like. This is a contender for one of my final images.

Contact sheet - 9

On this roll of film there is shots from both London and Middlesborough town. I'm not happy with this roll as i feel that quite a lot of the images are dark or really just not of relevance. I think that there maybe one or two that could be enlarged to see the quality of them, however I'm really not happy with this at all. I think that there really badly composed and not focused or exposed well at all.

Enlargements: 

One of my main aims in this shoot was to experiment with reflections. When looking at the contact sheet i felt like this didn't come across as none of the images i was expecting to be good were not. However this image i really like. At first i just overlooked it as it was just something i took to set the settings correctly on my camera, however i really like it. I like the proportions of the image and how you don't see loads of sky, its more floor and the reflection, this shows you the top of the building. 

This is almost like a silhouette its that dark! i do really like though that all around the 2 boys is dark and black and yet they are so bright. It makes them really stand out the image. I also really like the patterns created by the branches, it brakes up the skyline. 

This is one of the last shots i did when i was in London. This was from convent garden. i like the image when you look at it from afar however when you get close you can see that it is blurred, and has a lot of movement in it. i also think that the white areas in the image are really bleached out. I think that you can tell i was tired.