Street Photography

    1.    What is Street Photography?

      It is a form of photography that focusses on the human condition within public places. 

2.    What is the ‘decisive moment’? Research this and find an example

         The decisive moment is as described by Henri Cartier Bresson is “The decisive moment, it is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organisation of forms which gives that event its proper expression.” 

3.    What does the term Juxtaposition mean? Can you find an example?

         Juxtaposition is the act or placement of 2 things, usually abstract concepts near each other     

4.    What do you think are the ethical considerations for Street Photography? 
         I would take into consideration that the subject may not want there photo taking, they don't know they're having their photo taken. I'd also take into consideration the situation they're in, for example a homeless person, as even though its a representation of life you have to consider if it is morally correct or not.   
                

5.    Compile a personal list of do’s and don’ts for a Street Photographer
           You should not go out of your way to take photos of children or security operations. You should also make sure that your photos do not cause offence. However a couple things you can do is smile naturally as it eases peoples nerves, ask their permission and be respectful of them.   

6.   What do you like about it? Explain the feelings the image gives you.

What I like about this image is that the subjects are centred in the frame, I also like the 2 stop signs either side of the subjects and that people in the background are looking at the dog and the man.       It gives the feeling that the man is loosing a battle with the dog and every passer by is stopping to watch how it will end.  

Edits: Before and after

Before

                                                                  After

Before

                                                                  After

what I've done to the images mainly is crop them, the first set have been cropped to 16x9 and the second set have been cropped to 10x8. in the first set i have also added a black and white effect to one of the photos and on the second one i have increased the saturation and lightness if the photo to give it a more vibrant but soft look.

Studio Portrait

3-Point Lighting system, uses a fill light, key light and a back light. The key light acts as the main source of light for the photographer, the fill light is used to fill out any possible shadows that could show up on the backdrop and the back light is used to illuminate the backdrop.
The system we used had a key light, fill light and a reflector, the use of the reflector was to fill out any shadows on peoples faces. Health and safety related to this was the fact that they were portable light's they could easily be toppled and hit someone, the light were also extremely bright and because of the flash this could of caused harmful effects to our eyes and because of this brightness they got hot so there was the possibility of someone getting burnt.  

White Balance setting

When testing settings on the camera we set the camera to manual and changed the white balance manually for each shot. the settings were Auto, Fine, Fluorescent Light 1, 2 and 3, Shade and Incandescent.

Auto setting

Fine

Fluorescent Light 1

Fluorescent Light 2

Fluorescent Light 3

Shade

Incandescent

Hard and Soft Light

             

 Soft Light 

 Hard Light 

These 2 photos show examples of hard and soft light. Hard light differs from soft light as it shows more contrast and has more defined shadows in them, the direction of light can also effect this, giving it a more dramatic effect and making it seem unnatural.

Rule of Thirds

These photos are to show how The Rule Of thirds is used