Hello fellow Retro Riders!
As I have probably said, I'm a second year studying Documentary Photography at Newport. I've decided to create a thread on here as I progress through my project, as a fresh perspective would be great, rather than just opinions from other photography students!
Typically, a lot of my photos do have cars in them and this is no different. This time my topic is the Scrappage Scheme, feeling really rather strongly about this, I am aiming to create a piece of work to show the absurdity of the situation. Rather than just cliché scrapyard photos, I am photographing the interiors to a very high standard, as if they could be in a brochure, however each will retain evidence of use, so something isn't quite right. My method is fantastically complicated, and each photo ends up being a labour of love, or at least a few intricate hours of tablet induced masking. There is definitely a state of mind to sit down and work on each photo, usually aided by pretentious tea and Supertramp. I know what I want each photo to be before I take it. Then I combine several exposures, and different flash power and angles. Each of these will have a particular element, be it the seats, windows, doors etc exposed how I want it and then I cut them up and put it together. Once this brief sketch is complete, I feather it and mask it to make it appear as a whole image. After this I add additional shading and finally some highlights. To blank the windows, I use cheap shower curtains draped over the car, although rather ghetto they do work quite well. Here's a few examples. Any comments are welcomed, if any parts look out of place or wrong especially. For humouring me I will happily share some of my motorsports photos, which are rather beautiful if I may say so
The first realised image, I know the steering wheel is out of focus, I doubt I’ll use the image. I don’t think the last one works well. Leather does seem to compliment my technique though.
As I have probably said, I'm a second year studying Documentary Photography at Newport. I've decided to create a thread on here as I progress through my project, as a fresh perspective would be great, rather than just opinions from other photography students!
Typically, a lot of my photos do have cars in them and this is no different. This time my topic is the Scrappage Scheme, feeling really rather strongly about this, I am aiming to create a piece of work to show the absurdity of the situation. Rather than just cliché scrapyard photos, I am photographing the interiors to a very high standard, as if they could be in a brochure, however each will retain evidence of use, so something isn't quite right. My method is fantastically complicated, and each photo ends up being a labour of love, or at least a few intricate hours of tablet induced masking. There is definitely a state of mind to sit down and work on each photo, usually aided by pretentious tea and Supertramp. I know what I want each photo to be before I take it. Then I combine several exposures, and different flash power and angles. Each of these will have a particular element, be it the seats, windows, doors etc exposed how I want it and then I cut them up and put it together. Once this brief sketch is complete, I feather it and mask it to make it appear as a whole image. After this I add additional shading and finally some highlights. To blank the windows, I use cheap shower curtains draped over the car, although rather ghetto they do work quite well. Here's a few examples. Any comments are welcomed, if any parts look out of place or wrong especially. For humouring me I will happily share some of my motorsports photos, which are rather beautiful if I may say so
The first realised image, I know the steering wheel is out of focus, I doubt I’ll use the image. I don’t think the last one works well. Leather does seem to compliment my technique though.
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