Day to night photos (project)

project evaluation

How it went -
I expected the project to go a lot better than what it did and i was a little disappointment how it turned out, the weather had a big impact on how the pictures finally came out and when I put them together it didn't come out how I thought. This was the first time round so I went out again in to town and around where I live and just got a  couple of pictures instead of loads therefore I could concentrate on the picture quality instead of rushing and getting quantity.

Over all I got around 6 different pictures, If I were to do it again I would have done it over a longer period of time to get both quality and quantity as I do not feel that 6 pictures are enough. I used Photoshop to help get the pictures in to line and the help improve the quality and finally when I finished all 6 pictures they didn't look so bad. Although they didn't meet my standards and what I wanted them to look like (what they looked like in my head) I still think I did a pretty decent job.

Sebastião Salgado - workers

In 1986 Sebastião Salgado began a series of reportages on the theme of manual labor, throughout the different continents. This work was conceived to tell the story of an era. The images offer a visual archaeology of a time that history knows as the Industrial Revolution, a time when men and women work with their hands provided the central axis of the world. The pictures Salgado took all had a story behind them, they all had a meaning and had an impact small or big on a lot of people. I think his idea behind this was to show what we have. These people were still working with their hands, no technology or and machinery to help them. This would have taken a much longer time to complete jobs than it would without machinery. We still complain about jobs even though we have all this technology etc and I think this is what Salgado was trying to show through pictures.                                                                                            

                                                                                                                               

brief

I am going to be doing 'The four stages of day to night' photography. I was inspired by an artist called Stephen Wilkes as he does a time lapse over 15 hours to capture early morning and late night. His pictures are mostly set in busy places e.g New York's union square or central park, this made me think as I cannot travel far to busy places like this I should go to the center of York and take photographs here. 

Day and night don't only show the difference visually but it also changes the mental thoughts towards the image for an example night time can make a person feel nervous because there is a lot of unknown and they are not fully aware of what's going on. The difference between day and night in my photographs is that you can see everything within the day time so we are all fully aware of what is going where as in the night time photograph even though it will still be the same photograph of the day photo it is darker so we cannot see everything therefore we are not aware of what is going on. This is how the emotions change towards the pictures. This is the difference between day and night.

As doing a time lapse would take so long and I would only get one full picture out of my final piece I thought I would take four pictures of the same subject over four most important times of the day e.g early morning (7am), Midday (12pm), sunset (4pm) and night time (8pm). I will then use Photoshop to include the four photos into one full picture. I will repeat this process 11 more times but my subject will be a different place each time e.g the York minster, the Shambles etc.

I will produce all my photos over two days so I have more time to chose which are my better pictures, upload them to Photoshop and edit them together. My idea is to create a book and an online gallery to present my photographs. My book and online gallery will consume of 12 photographs I have taken and edited together. I may include a time lapse over a few hours in a day if it all goes to plan, if not i will still include some thumbnail photographs I have taken to prove I tried to make a time lapse. 

moodboard

Geometry - Henri Cartier Bresson

Through his keen sensibility, understanding of composition and appreciation for the moment, Henri Cartier-Bresson established his name as one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. Despite his recognition as such, he did not see himself primarily as a photographer, but as an active participant in the unfolding of history. 
Henri used shapes in his photographs to make them more interesting for the viewers and his theory worked as he became famous for it and one of the greatest photographers.

Acheivements - Robert Frank

We researched about a man named Robert Frank as he is a photographer and looked at a certain subject he did which was achievements so we went out and took a few of our own. Robert Frank (born November 9, 1924) is an important figure in American photography and film. His most notable work, the 1958 book titled The Americans, was influential, and earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and nuanced outsider's view of American society.

Frank later expanded into film and video and
experimented with manipulating photographs
and photo montage.

Here are three pictures, the top two are about a boy who couldn't tie his shoe laces but in the end successfully did so we took a picture of his achievement. The last photo is about a lyric I couldn't sing and as we couldn't photograph this I looked excited because I finally sang the lyric correctly.

Achievements is a good idea to take pictures of. It captures the moment and as you or a friend has done something brilliant or just something small that means a lot to them you can always look back at that picture and see how happy or proud they were and how it makes someone feel in the present day remembering that memory.