Work Record

First Shoot:

My initial plans for the first photo shoot are to take photographs off the Harlow town centre and identify it's characteristics including architecture and visitors.


This was achieved by walking to the town centre from Harlow College to take photographs. The camera settings used throughout taking photos were 1200 ISO, high and low aperture settings ranging from F.8 to F.16. The photographs came out with various depths of field. The photographs that represented the architecture of the town centre had a high depth of field while photographs of people had a lower depth of field to bring about the viewers focus onto the photograph. The majority of the photographs were taken with a good composition. I also used the decisive moment to take the photographs of other people so that It would bring about the true representation of the visitors of Harlow.

However for future photo shoots, I would have changed the ISO settings since some of the photographs have a grainy outcome that cannot be fully edited out by image editing software. I should have also used a tripod when taking photographs. This is because a tripod allows a camera to take steady shots. This would have brought about better composition and compositional techniques such as the rule of thirds or the golden rule in my photographs. Using these would have had the photograph have a much more aesthetic and satisfactory appearance to the viewer.
However the grainy photographs could be viewed as my own personalised approach to the photographs.

Second Shoot:

The initial plans for this shoot was to take photographs that include journeys weather it includes walking, driving or cycling and to take photographs of the landscapes that can be seen during this.

This has been achieved by walking to places such as roads and cycle tracks to explore these landscapes. I have used a consistent F.16 camera setting to bring about a wide depth of field . The shutter speed used was a fast shutter speed since the weather at the time was bright. The ISO was reduced to 100 and no tripod was used when taking the photographs. In terms of composition, the photographs were taken relatively well even without a tripod, mainly including the rule of thirds in the photos.

However there were some photographs that resulted in unwanted motion blurs since a tripod wasn't used during the shoot. So in future, I will use a tripod to ensure that there is no blur in the photographs.