Tuesday, 26 April 2016

Exam Shoot 2 - Work Record - John Clang

Pre-Shoot:

For my second examination shoot I hope to link to the work of John Clang. I hope to take more photos and produce more edits from this shoot than I did for my preparatory shoot in which I linked to John Clang's work. I will go to a slightly busier area and then take more photos so that my final image has a bit more diversity than before. In this shoot I hope that I will be able to improve upon the work I did earlier in the year.

Post-Shoot:

For this shoot I managed to produce two edits from the two different locations I visited and then make the edits from the images. I think that one of these shoots and edits is better than the other even thought they are both very good images. I think that with these edits I really captured the 'Passing of Time' and how John Clang works. Here is the image that I think is best:


I feel that this image is the better one because every photo in this image lines up perfectly. For this shoot I set up in the town centre area, in a sort of square, open area. I set up on a wall in the corner so that I was out of the way and people wouldn't notice me too much. As people came I took photos as they crossed my path so that I had all angles covered. It was then a matter of printing off the ones that I thought would best fill the image. I made sure I had each bit of the image covered by somebody. I ripped the pieces up and put them into the correct areas. As there was a roof with lines it was easy to match up and line up each of the images. I feel that this edit is a good one to link to the 'Passing of Time'. 


This was the first part of the shoot that I did. There was a smaller area that needed to be covered for this edit but a lot more people came walking past so I ended up using roughly half of the images. I set up on a set of stairs looking out onto a loading bay area. My camera was set up so that the bar in the top left of the photo could be guide for me when selecting photos to put together. Unfortunately, due to the unstable nature of the tripod I was using some of the photos didn't line up with the others. Also, when starting to put the photos together, I started from one end and worked my way across. This means all the images are slotted together in the same way. Although I feel that this is a good image, I think it is the worse of the two that I have.

My Progression:

Although I feel that this is the best John Clang inspired shoot that I have done to date I would still improve on it were I to go out and take these photos again. The main thing that I would improve would be the tripod I used. The quality of the one that I had on the day was not up to scratch and gave me some difficulties further down the line. I would also go and shoot in a few more locations in order to do more edits.

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