I chose to make my images in my chosen location because whilst researching different types of specialist location photography and photographers I particularly enjoyed Bruce Davidson's Subway photographs. Which influenced me and gave me the idea to shoot in the location of train stations as well as on a train throughout the journey. After looking at Bruce Davidson's work and getting a slight idea for my intentions, i then researched into Stephen Shore which helped my idea along more and gave me more of an idea and a plan of what I wanted to photograph. Which is why I chose to shoot in this location.
The technical decisions I chose to make were to use two different cameras, both film and digital. With the digital camera I chose to use two different techniques using slow and fast shutter speeds. I chose to use fast shutter speeds to capture still images, as it will be within a moving train, fast shutter speeds will be needed. As well as slower shutter speeds to capture the movement, which whilst on a moving train works very well in creating motion blur and creates interesting outcomes. I chose to do this to show different techniques used as well as using ensuring that I had two different types of images to later decide which are more successful. After doing this I feel that using the slower shutter speeds often worked well while the train was moving as it proved to be easier than using faster shutter speeds. Whereas as the train was moving slower pulling into different stations is was easier to capture still images using faster shutter speeds.
I feel that my research strongly helped to inform the work that I had created, it helped me to get an idea on the location as well as the inspiration to create the work I planned and did create. I feel that if I had not researched all of the photographers I have researched that I would not have come up with the project plan I had, therefore I would not of created the outcomes I have. The original research into different photographers and different locations helped me to create a rough idea and location I would photograph in, so I could then develop my research and ideas further by looking for and researching into different photographers in this category. Therefore by researching into this location, it helped me to get a more vague idea of my project plan, which I could then act on and create these images from these ideas.
There are a few strengths within my images, which are things such as the theme, which includes the theme of being on a train as well as the reflections. As I was shooting my images out of the window of a train, it was easy to get this themed pattern of reflections, which include the frame of what is outside of the train, as well as a reflection of what is inside of the train, which can give off a deep message and make the viewer think about the images a lot. Another strength of my my final images is also the framing, which is always important in creating these final images, because bad framing will more often than not result in unsuccessful outcomes. I also think that in creating these images I used photoshop well, to correct the exposure of the images as well as bring more colour into them to refrain them from looking dull and boring.
The areas for development when creating my final images would be to make sure my images are correctly exposed, many of my images that I had chosen to use for my final images because they was the most successful had been under exposed, which were from my first shoot, in which i struggled to get the correct exposure quick enough to capture the frame i wanted, which is a small disadvantage with the location i had chosen.
The mini project I enjoyed most was the music studio shoot. I enjoyed this the most because it gave me an outcome of a range of good images, I felt that I got some interesting images from this shoot and I enjoyed the atmosphere. From this I learnt the issues of shooting in this location, as well as the advantages of it. It also gave me the experience of photographing in a different type of location than I am used to.
Throughout this project I feel that the technical areas I have developed is composition. Developing on each shoot I had worked on getting a better composition which has had a good effect on my final images as I have created final images with a good composition.
My final body of work is imaginative and creative because it can be perceived with different messages and effects. The main one being of the reflections, where by photographing the outside of the train, from inside of the train, showing reflections of what is happening on the inside. Which can give off a deep and meaningful effect. From working within specialist locations as a photographer I have learnt ways to create imaginative and creative photographs within one location, which has helped me the think more creatively.
If I was to do this project again I would focus more on the reflections and get a bigger range of images using this idea. I would also focus on the camera settings and making sure that the images weren't under exposed, which I developed onto in the second shoot but had more successful images in the first shoot. Overall I feel I have made developments throughout this project and in the end have created a good, imaginative and creative set of final images that I am happy with and have a good effect.
