Mundane Realism

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Some more inspiration

www.street-photographers.com

Promo

Here are the photos from the Joe Masini DJ Promo shoot I did the other day:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=97078&id=1275846979&fbid=1699094678632

Join the fanpage if you like!


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Joe Masini

Personal Project - Inspiration

This is pretty much what i'm wanting to do for my personal project.

http://www.mattstuart.com/Photographs/Black-White

Personal Project - Street Photography

So for A2 we have to complete a personal project. We have been given an assignment brief to help us get some idea's together.

I've decided to go with the theme: 'Flaneur' (meaning to 'Stroll' or 'Loaf). My initial ideas are as follows:

1. Go to some of the major cities in the local area (Derby, Nottingham & Birmingham) and sample the atmosphere of the cities on different days. This will then help me determine which day I will do my shoot(s).
2. I want to capture the general public and people in their rawest form. My aim is to gain some extremely natural photographs. These photographs are going to be of: Pigeons (pretty common in most British cities), People (couples allowed) who are just doing their normal routine - some of these photographs will be posed for a better effect and some will be natural. 
3. I will edit most of the photos on the highly reliable Photoshop, and most probably turn them into black and white as I feel this is most effective. 

When taking pictures of the general public, there are always going to be ethical issues. Some people really don't like to have their picture taken, therefore, if I do take a picture of somebody I will always try and tell them afterwards what my project/aim is and show them the picture, hopefully, because no personal or identifiable information is being taken they should be okay with it all. If not, I'm going to have to delete the pictures just out of sheer respect for the person(s). 

Im going to complete for light research on some artists which deal with Street photography: Henry Cartier-Bresson, Martin Parr and maybe: Lee Friedlander, Harry Callahan, Alexander Rodchenko.

Promo

Im glad to see that some of the work that I did for Luvstuff is hitting the Internet hard.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=139906709373710

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http://www.facebook.com/pages/Luvstuff/196776243565


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Outside Portraiture

Good Evening To Whom It May Concerners,

Today - I learnt how to take effective photos with lighting equipment (outside). 

The equipment it self, is pretty simple and basic to set up. For all those interested, we used Bowens, Gemini lights.

Here are the settings we used:

• ISO: 100
• Flash: 1/16
• Aperture: 5.6

If the pictures were too dark, were were able to change the ISO higher and decrease the shutter speed. 

The pictures in the previous blog, there are pictures of the lovely Diana would voluntarily helped us out as a model. Here are some more of the pictures:

Diana

Night Shots: Slow Shutter Speed

Bonjourno All,

The Statues Fair was in town last night (which then moves to Nottingham to join the infamous Goose Fair) so I thought it would be a great opportunity to capture some slow-shutter shots with motion blur.

I used the following equipment and settings:

Equipment:

• 1x DSLR Camera
• 1 x Tripod
• 1 x Camera Assistant
• 1 x Slice of Carrot Cake

Settings:

• I originally set my aperture at F22, and lowered this if my images were too dark.
• ISO: 100
• And with these settings; I then chose how long my shutter speed was going to be. I generally picked around 15-20seconds.

So here are the eagerly anticipated images, which have had a bit of liposuction and botox.