work record 4

work record 4

plans for shoot

for this shoot i am going to visit St. albans abbey. i chose this abbey because of its gothic architecture. this should be an interesting subject for my photos. for this shoot i would like to focus on fukase masahisa. i have looked at his work previously and i would like to use his work again as inspiration for my next shoot. he used black and white photos to show the solitude of ravens. i would like to carry on this gothic theme in this shoot.

the equipment i will be using in this shoot includes my Nikon D7100 and a standard zoom lens. this is the equipment i usually use as it is light weight and easy to carry but still allows me to take photos of a high enough quality.

when i get to the abbey, i am going to look for some trees and different features of the landscape to include in my photos as these may help me recreate the eerie theme in my artists photos.

research influence

my research influence for this shoot is fukase masahisa. in previous shoots i have also looked at his work. 

i am going to focus on producing black and white images in thee same style but this time looking more at a landscape feature and the sky behind it. when editing, i am going to enhance the clouds and possibly add light rays to make more of a dramatic scene. this should be interesting to experiment with.

contact sheet

image bank

 





the above images are examples of some of the ways i could edit my photos. i will experiment with colour and black and white to see which looks best. the overall aim of this shoot to end up with a dark and sinister looking gothic abbey. i can achieve this by using a mixture of photoshop and different angles of the abbey.

best images

images that require improvement

i chose these images because they have least interesting composition and are not taken very well. the photo above is of one of the towers on the abbey. at the time, i was walking around the side of the abbey and took the photo before we started walking back. if i was to retake this photo, i would change the angle and make sure i am stood completely still when i take it.

the photo below is of the side of the abbey. when taking this, i was trying to include more of the sky and the surroundings in the photo. i didn't find this successful as i would've liked to have included more of the architecture in the photo.

edits from the shoot