Monday, 17 March 2014

P&P-Part 4; Exercise 3; Making figures anonymous


Exercise; Making figures anonymous

 
I have to take between two to four photographs that include a person or people in a particular place, but deliberately make them unrecognizable and as a result, less prominent.

In the exercise there are a few ways listed that I would be able to achieve this.
·         Small and many
·         Facing away
·         In Silhouette
·         Partly obscured
·         Motion blur
 
To start off with I chose to show “Small and many” with this image that I took recently whilst I was in Barcelona of the Basilica I Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia.
 
 
1/60 seconds at f/18.0 – Lens EF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS

 
I used a high aperture to get everything in focus and I wanted to “freeze” the people hence the reason for the fast shutter speed, it was also a sunny day so that helped.
I think this fits the brief well, at first glance you cannot see the people at the bottom due to the enormity of the church. It is a good image to show its function as it is a major tourist attraction and everyone is standing as far back as they can, in the grounds of the church so to be able to view it.
 
 
 
1/4 seconds at f/22.0 – Lens EF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
 
I tried to do motion blur on London Bridge and it worked quite well, however it does not make the people less prominent. I think this is because there are more people in the foreground, I have noticed though the further away they are, the less blur there is and the man on the left hand side is quite prominent, I think this is because he was walking slowly!
I used a high aperture and slow shutter speed as I wanted to get everything apart from the people in focus.

 
 
 1/40 seconds at f/7.1 – Lens EF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS


 
I know the people in this image are extremely prominent, however I included it as I think it is a lovely image of a family taking in the view and it makes me feel very serene.

I used a low aperture to concentrate solely on the family, but I think the view is still very prominent in the frame due to the way I composed the shot.

 
 
 
1/30 seconds at f/7.1 – Lens EF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS

I included this image as it includes two of the situations with “facing away” and “motion blur”. I feel that in this image the figures are less prominent due to the composure of the image and the woman who is facing away is far away.
As with the image above I used a low aperture to focus in on the woman looking at the view and a slightly slower shutter speed to capture the bike. 
 
  
 
1/160 seconds at f/8 – Lens EF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS

I found this image in the bank of images that I have of the USA, hence the reason for the settings not being correct. I decided to include this image as I really like the vignette and bold colours. Even the people are bold in there colouring, but do not overtake the image therefore they are less prominent.

Summary
This was a great exercise to be able to experiment with ways of photographing that I have not really done before, as I said previously it was really interesting to see how distance really affects the motion blur, I feel I have composed the pictures well in this exercise.



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