These images are the five best ones which I was able to get during my first exam shoot.
This is one of my favourite images from my people trails exam shoot purely because there aren't that many people in it. It shows that not everyone is constantly moving, not everyone is constantly heading somewhere or doing something, but there are always some who are. I also like this image because it is of a wider angle than most of the other ones, it gives you more of a perspective of other people's surroundings. I did have to edit this image in photoshop because the original was a little overexposed. I used the brightness/contrast adjustment in order to level it out. This made the image look a lot better. Then, in order to complete the link to Alexey Titarenko's work, I changed it to black and white. I think that this makes the image look a better because it means you aren't drawn in by the colour, just by the simplicity of the photo.
This is another one of my favourites. This image is slightly closer in to the building than the previous one and has more going on in it. There are more people moving around, some so fast that they are a faint blur off to the side, but some are moving slow enough that they are fully formed and only slightly blurred. This, I feel, shows that everyone is always moving at different speeds. Time passes for everyone but everyone moves differently. For this image my camera was set to f22 and a shutter speed of 1.6 seconds which meant that whether someone was walking or running I was able to pick them up in some capacity, be it a blur, a fully formed person or even just an outline.
I like this image because the two people walking up the centre are very similarly dressed and give the image a look of almost symmetry. I also like the fact that to the left of this image you can see a very slight blur where a body would be and then a white trainer at the bottom. I like it when these images don't catch the entirety of a person because it shows that some people pass so fast that you are unable to catch them. I also think that the black and white colouring of this image makes a lot of difference to how this image is looked at. Had I left it in colour I do not think that it would have the same impact as when it is in black and white. I also think that this image links well to Alexey Titarenko's work and the 'Passing of Time' exam piece.
I like this image because of it's almost ghostly feel. Not one person featured in this image is fully formed. They are merely ghosts of time. None of the people in this image will be in the position they are in this image now. They have moved on and the only impression they have made is on this image, and we do not even know who they are. I feel that this image is a great example of the 'Passing of Time' because it shows us just how quickly time can go and something can be forgotten, or lost. I think that the inclusion of the black and white colouring really adds to this effect as well. This image is also one of the few where my tripod didn't slip and so all of the background is stable. I had my camera set to f22 and a 1.6 second shutter speed. I had to use the brightness/contrast adjustment in photoshop for this photo too as it was slightly overexposed to begin with, I did this before turning it black and white.
My final straight image I have left in colour. I have done this because I feel that this image wouldn't look as good in black and white. My reasoning behind this is the overexposure of the sky in the image. Despite my best efforts to rectify this in photoshop I was unable to make this image look any better than it does now. When putting this image into black and white, I saw that almost the entire image was white and the parts that were black were thereby overshadowed somewhat. So I decided to leave this particular image in colour. I feel that in doing this I have made the image better. There was a lot of movement whilst I was taking this photo and I think that it shows how busy people's lives can really get, thereby it was a perfect candidate to go on my straight images for my 'Passing of Time' exam piece. Because of the change in location for this photo I also had to change my settings in order to prevent the entire image being white. For this photo my camera was set on f22 with a shutter speed of just 1 second.
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