My first outing on my new project was just around the outside of the college. I started with an open mind, just trying to see anything that caught my eye as a 'contrast'. This lead to me taking photos of plants and trees at first thinking of contrasts such as 'living and dying' or 'close up and far away'. As I travelled around the area, I found more things to take photos of, such as shadows for interesting photos surrounding the contrast of 'light and dark' - I think I'll be making drawings inspired by the shapes I see in the shadows and as I was moving on from the shadows I saw a wrapper sat in a bed of daffodils which made me think of the contrast 'natural and man-made' - this opened up my eyes to a brand new opportunity of images and I started playing around with aspects and framing - taking photos of buildings and other man-made places/objects from behind trees and bushes to see what sort of contrast it would create. I think the images are quite interesting as you're focusing on the focal point of the image your subconscious is thinking about what is happening in the background, be it a building poking out from the trees or an abandoned patch of concrete. I've really put a lot of thought into all of the images I've taken so far and I'm going to be putting my favourites and the ones that convey contrasts the best up in my studio space.
Later on I went out again just as the sun was setting to try and get some night photos in contrast to the ones I got during the day. The photos that I got weren't great as I didn't want to use my flash for fear of it ruining the images but my camera couldn't quite pick up enough light without me putting the shutter speed low making a lot of the photos I took blurry. I think I'm going to try to get a tripod or borrow one from the college so that I can get better photos at night - I think it would be a good idea for me to get two or maybe more photos of the same places at different times of the day to see what it looks like and to see how the different lights treat the landscape.
Later on I went out again just as the sun was setting to try and get some night photos in contrast to the ones I got during the day. The photos that I got weren't great as I didn't want to use my flash for fear of it ruining the images but my camera couldn't quite pick up enough light without me putting the shutter speed low making a lot of the photos I took blurry. I think I'm going to try to get a tripod or borrow one from the college so that I can get better photos at night - I think it would be a good idea for me to get two or maybe more photos of the same places at different times of the day to see what it looks like and to see how the different lights treat the landscape.