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Slow shutter speeds

Quite a conceptual view of a motorway and wall while driving to London, Ashford. I feel the colours and light play the key role in this image, rather than the whole idea of the image. Again i used a slow shutter speed to capture the flowing movement of the car between the road and sky to portray the idea of hidden identity. I did the same thing with the motorway signs on the way but not many of the turned out too good, rather a neon squiggly line than a fast moving glow, but the colour and light was still decent.
I did shoot in B/W but in my opinion the colour images work better for the shutter speed.

FMP

Over past few days I have been contemplating as to what my FMP could be based on, within the grounds of hidden identity. I took into account group critiques, post comments and my own gut instincts while proposing my idea.
So after a bit of thinking I decided my FMP would be based aroundthe audience/viewer guessing the identity of the object, product or person. The 'thing' would be hidden by different techniques, blur, bokah, segmentation, illusion and more.

Two images from Paris

These two images were took while on my holiday to Paris, I think the fact that these images aren't noticeable landmarks increases the sense of hidden Identity as you are already thinking to what they are, and where from.
I used the inspiration from my colleagues Technique 'Bokah'. If i were to exhibit these photos i wouldn't disclose the identity as this is part of my project, to guess its identity, if this isn't achieved then i think my project has been fulfilled.

Photography course: Journal entry 2

Photography Week Two:

Second lesson of the course. Today we started off by recapping what we thought contrast is. Since we wanted to get ahead with the project we all took turns to state what our ‘contrast’ would be. Like the week before many contrasts came up like motion and static, or sharpen and blur.
Over the week I tried to imagine what my images would be like I were to choose any subject. In the mean time I have the idea of curvature and linear in my head. I’m going to be experimental and adapt some black and white photos aswell. This will give me a more in-depth photo of the contrast subject. I spoke to Catherine about what I was to actually take images of. I told her I wasn’t sure whether to shoot still life or real life as I believed the two to be both intriguing in their own way, so this Is going to be something to consider, but on the other hand, wouldn’t shooting still life and real life also be a contrast? So in a way this could be a 3in1 scenario.
After we finished the recapping session we moved onto the Macs, where we started to look at our blogs. Many people hadn’t already joined Blogspot in the first case, so it was really a matter of setting up them first. Seeing as I had already done this, I started writing a quick paragraph, summarizing my chosen contrast. I wont take time to go on about what I put, but I posted it up on Catherines blog to let everyone know what I was planning on doing, this may help undecided colleagues to choose their path.
Upon everyone completing this part, we moved on into the studio. Unlike myself, many of my colleagues hadn’t used a studio before so it was great to check it out. This wasn’t the most in-depth speech about it all but there probably wasn’t enough time to go on about each thing in detail. We watched Catherine take a few photos which included quick and long exposures aswell as different lighting.
Now we got chance to take our own photos using what ever light was available. We were told to experiment by turning off the lights down the long hallway (which leads to our room) and setting our cameras to B/W or some people, Monocrhome.
Throughout the 50minutes of doing this I took some very interesting images. At first it took some time to adjust my aperture, iso and shutter speed to correspond with the light but after that I was getting better. (I’ll post the photos I thought were best later)
I then moved into the photography room where we had a projector beaming light onto the white brick wall. We brought up an image of a prison size chart, for when they take mug shots in prison. I experimented with this idea for a few mintues and with the B/W effect, the images look good.

Photography Course: Journal entry 1

In the first lesson of our course we got given our project briefs. The starting project title was ‘contrast’. In a group discussion we all came up with some terms which helped us understand the idea of contrast. The term that came up the most had to be ‘comparison’, other terms like distinction, disagreements and opposites came up aswell.
Catherine told us the basic meaning for contrast which was simply, to show differences when compared.
Again, as a group, we arrived with many ‘contrasting’ situations, some were:
Black and white
Rich and poor
Curvature and linear
Landscape and portrait
Reality and surrealism
Male and female etc
After discussing the many ideas for our contrast project we got taught how to use our cameras. I have my own Digital SLR camera so I didn’t need to use the ones that were hadn’t out but what we learnt would also be applicable for the 35mm film cameras. We got taught about the exposure of an image and how to change it via the camera. We got about this by changing the shutter speed and changing the aperture (f-numbers). An example of how this effects could be that taking a photo with a very quick shutter speed i.e. stop motion, the amount of light let in would be minimal because the shutter opens and closes too quick. I could see this effect on my images I took.
Our next task was to go outside and take some images, seeing as there were cars and street lamps which was ideal for testing out long-exposure. One effect that was captured while doing this was light painting where the shutter speed is set for about 2+seconds and then a light trail is recorded.