location 3

This shoot was in an abandoned warehouse called Sheppard Security. I was mainly focussing on the graffiti in the building and capturing what people have done in the building since it's abandonment. How we got in took quite a bit of effort, we had to climb up onto a roof and then climb through a window on the first floor. Once inside we found a way downstairs into the main room straight away because that's where the biggest room was and could get some wide angle shots. once inside though, navigating the building was totally fine. There was a lot of graffiti in the rooms which I focused on mainly.  There was a lot of interesting things in there too, like ties left behind and old security jackets. There where a couple old computers that where stripped apart and broken. There where certain limitations to the shoot like how dark certain area's where but I did bring an off camera flash for the shoot because I knew that it wouldn't be light.

Location 2

This location was quite challenging as was very in the decisive moment, as with all street photography. the environment was very busy and also quite dark, this meant high shutter speeds, wide open lenses and a high iso as to not capture any movement blur. I really like some of the images but the poor lighting tends to ruin the images a little too. I did shoot all the images in raw too but even with raw processing some of the images either where too dark either from lighting change (clouds changing the ambient light) or movement blur from the people.

Dancers studio

I really enjoyed photographing the dancers. There where some certain limitations to the shoot due to the poor lighting and the backlighting making the subject of the image hard to correctly expose without blowing out the background.

With theses images there was only capturing images in the decisive moments, which was quite difficult as there was a lot of movement across the whole studio so capturing with the correct focal length and not being too wide or cutting out an arm or a leg etc.

Contact sheet

I have chosen theses images because of the colours that where created because the images where taken at sunset time all the images looked very warm and not as harsh, with all the images I have edited them differently, some desaturating the images and some over saturated (because of hair colour) I decided to do this because I thought it was very contrasting to the black coat.)

Location 1

My first location was in the music studio.
The constraints of working in a music studio is that the lighting is very poor, quite dark and often yellow lighting. This can make shooting difficult without a flash. I like the depth of field in some of theses images and the detail in the parts in the correct focus. Using the 50mm f1.8 allowed me to get these types of depth of field in the images and allowed me to let more light into the camera. However it made it quite difficult to get the correct focus in the decisive moment. I had to use selective autofocus to stop the camera trying to focus on the background instead of the main subject. This aperture also made it quite difficult because the subjects would move back and forward and out of focus.