Friday, April 20, 2018

Week 13: Urban and Street Photography










Week 13: In our Photography II Class, we are focusing on taking photographs based on the idea of city or street photography. Here are the results.

Craft: The Craft of this assignment is the following: Digital SLR Camera (Canon E05 Rebel T5i), a computer, 58 mm lens, a long-distance telescopic lens, and the various scenes around me. I used these resources to create the images above.

Composition: For this project, we were tasked with playing with the concept of going into the city and taking photographs of the city, its people, and the architecture around. As a result, there were no special editing or technical techniques that we would have to deploy for this assignment. The general editing that I noticed that I had to do was the following. While shooting, I had to constantly readjust the ISO to fit the particular lighting situation. Shutter speed was also tweaked to capture fast moving objects such as people and cars. Post-production involved editing the exposure and tweaking the levels so that the image was bright enough and to remove any noise that appeared. I also had to straighten the photos on occasion due to an offset shot.

Concept: In this project, our concept was creating images that conveyed the city, its architecture and its people. As a result, I had to get into the heart of the city and depict it to the best of my ability with my photos. For myself, I focused on the overall scene, the architecture played a part of it. In some of the pictures, I focused on architecture solely. Others, I focused on individuals. However, I wanted to show the city as a whole, unified scene. A city and what that city represents is tangible in those that live within its limits, the architectural structure that it showcases, and the unified voice that both of those combined make.

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