I
did this shoot to express the chosen them of urban surroundings that show
neglect and signs of recession. I also took this shoot to respond to the
artists: Saul Leiter and Marcin Stawiarz. For this shoot I used my Nikon D3200
digital camera. I then picked out some images and edited them using Photoshop.
I cropped them, changed levels, contrast/brightness, desaturation, saturation
and sharpening when needed. I changed my ISO to 400 while on the shoot so
plenty of light would appear in my image. At the start of the shoot my shutter
speed was 1/80 sec and the aperture was 4.5. But as it was getting darker my
shutter speed 1/100 sec and the aperture was 4.8 this was because more light
needed to get to the image. I took this shoot around Manchester to show
examples of neglect and recession. I did this by taking photos of the Northern
Quarter of Manchester where there are more abandoned and not looked after
places. The strengths of this shoot are: the photos showing cracks in glass and
street lamps showing different commercial stuff layered on top of each other.
The weaknesses are: that I could find more abandoned buildings to take photos
of. The artist listed above influenced me. I found this shoot to be quite fun
and free because I was taking photos of buildings and neglected things.
