half term project

Half Term Project-

I decided to shoot just old buildings because the follow up task was a shoot of old pictures. I did this to get an overall idea of what works and what doesn't when shooting these buildings. By doing this I noticed that there was a lot of detail so, close up shots would work, however, the lighting really controlled this. If the sun was shining directly on the the area with a lot of detail, the majority of it would be too exposed due to it being so fine and small but if the sun was behind the building on a cloudy day, the detail wouldn't have enough light and would be under exposed. Artificial light such as the flash, again over exposed the area so the lighting had to be just right. I found that if the sun was hitting the building slightly at the side, I would be able to get a good shot, as well as using shadow as one half of the building would be light, and the other would be dark. 

I shot my shoot during 11 and 2 pm because I know that this is when the sun is at it's highest and the sun would hit the highest point of the building and the face which was facing towards it. I also did this because I wanted one particular picture with juxtaposition, which included the trinity shopping centre and the trinity church. 

Another thing I noticed was that the buildings are very similar in the structure, the majority of the buildings I found either had ledges, oval detail, (whether it was the shape of the windows or a wall), was very rectangular and had a taller part of the building; which was obviously the focal point of the building, which is why I focused more on these particular qualities of the buildings. Also, due to the buildings being very tall, I found that to get the most amount of detail and to get the focal points of the buildings in the shots i took, I had to shoot portrait at a low angle/ worms view. Because of this, I knew I had to have a nice blue sky to contrast with the brown/orange colours of the building. Although my angles were very limited, I saw this as an advantage because I could get the sky in.