Work Diary- Shoot 4 (people and the possessions they hold)

PLANS AND EXPECTATIONS

For this shoot I plan to do an outdoors shoot in a city and take pictures of People and their Possessions. I plan to gather a selection of images displaying People and the Possession which they have with them to a day to day basis when they are out. This will help to show the vast lack of items which people travel with. It will also suggest what a person is doing or their direction for that day, for example if they are traveling with a suitcase may mean they are making a journey somewhere (such as a holiday or business trip). I think the possessions which we see people with is what we base our first impression on as it is the first part of them we see of them.

EVALUATIONS

The main focus to this image is the two roller skaters to the right hand side of this image. I used the rule of thirds and used two thirds of the photograph to help create an interesting, off centre, focal point. The image shows a popular area on a sunny day with a variety of features and background activities within the setting. I feel that although this image appears busy and to have a lot of different things taking place, the two roller skaters are the main focus point and remain the subjects of the image. Based on what we see from this image we could make an assumption that the people are local to the area due to the two have very little belongings on their person suggesting they and are not tourists and this is an activity which they like to do together through a local park on a sunny day.

I really like this image because I like how it has captured the man on a journey. I also like how the image is showing the man carrying his possessions on his back. Suggesting that he is traveling and at this moment has his life on his back. This shows a contrast between people who have a large amount of items which spend their time in posh hotels and value there expensive belongings compared to this man who probably values seeing different cultures and experience them. This suggests how he values different peoples life style and situations and empathises with the different struggles that people face within their cultures and lives.

PROGRESSION

I enjoyed capturing images representing people within everyday life. I felt by showing a brief preview of peoples personality and interests through their possessions they have on their person at that given moment in time. For my next shoot I plan to capture people with their cameras. Cameras hold  great amounts of value as well as often sentimental value due to the image saved on their camera which hold so many memories.