PLACES - A FAMILIAR PLACE THAT IS SIGNIFICANT OR IMPORTANT TO YOU

This is one of my favourite places. It might look like chaos to anyone else, but to me its my own organised chaos. I took this on a Nikon D700 SLR with a 24 - 70mm lens, focal length was 24mm, f.10/ 0.6 second on ISO 800, using a 200 watt Tungsten light.

PLACES - A familiar Place that is significant or important to you

CONTACT SHEETS

Here are the contact sheets of my photo shoot of the above brief title.

Contact sheets are a good idea so that you can look and pick the best photographs to use from one place.

PLACES - THE ALIEN OR FOREIGN ENVIRONMENT

Here are a selection of my images for the alien or foreign environment which I took at Manchester airport , very early in the morning whilst it was still dark, to give the impression that you are on a spaceship, since it struck me that this was not unlike a spaceship that you see in the movies. The light interested me, because it gives you a sense of calmness because of the blue, cool tones. Because of the curve, IE; leading the eye, you can't wait to see whats around the next corner. I used a Nikon D80 SLR here, ISO 1600 to capture any light trails and give a grainy effect because it is more sensitive to light capture. I used an 18 - 55mm short telephoto lens to allow me to alter my focal length depending on the image I wanted to create, and also this gave me a wider angle in some instances. The shutter speed throughout was 1/25th of a second, at f/5.6.

PLACES - THE ALIEN OR FOREIGN ENVIRONMENT

Contact sheets are really useful as a tool to be able to see all your images at once, to be able to choose your best image for your final portfolio.
I made this contact sheet using Photoshop CS4 Bridge, then selected the images I wanted in the sheet. From this I can now choose my best images.

PLACES - INTRODUCTION

In this brief I intend to show the character of various places through the medium of photography. The photographer has to show what he sees to the viewer, and project his thoughts which might not neccessarily be the truth, for example, the Alien landscape images I took do not actually show that you are on a spaceship, or an alien planet, but merely put across the sense of what I saw as an alien environment.

For example; this image, "Dust Breeding", by Man Ray shows an "alien" landscape as Man Ray wanted us to see it, but in fact it is a macro shot of dust.

You can view more of Man Ray's work at the following web link:

http://www.manray-photo.com/catalog/index.php

To capture the character of a place as you see it, and want to portray it may not always be true, but is dependant on the way you take your picture, and how you use the lighting, be it natural or added, the different lenses you use IE; wide angle will give you a sense of space, depth of field to give you perspective.

Environmental Portraiture

I took this image on a Nikon D700 55mm focal lens 1/160 sec at f/10 ISO 400, I used twin lighting set up the Bowen soft box and the brolley the brolley being the key light. I like this photograph as i feel that the manager looks inviting with the use of the props.

Environmental Portraiture

I took this photograph on a Nikon D700 48mm lens 1/125 sec

at f/10 i used the twin lighting set up which was the Bowen soft

box and the brolley the brolley being the key lighting. I like this image for how it lights up helen as the subject being served and steam coming of the dish makes it authentic, the waiter is able to serve Helen without blocking her out of the shot, the props add to the final image.