This blog post will be centred around my recent trip to Amsterdam with my college. This trip included many visits to various art galleries and walks around the city. My photographic aim of this was to apply what I had learnt in my street photography photoshoot I did in Norwich city centre. So in this photoshoot I was still aiming to photograph people in their natural urban environment and capturing their faces/ movement. A good technique for this kind of photography is to hav

Hi, Since I will be starting a new exam project for my photography class I have chosen to photograph urban environments. This will primarily include photographing people and colour on streets and urban spaces. For this first photoshoot of this subject I have chosen to walk around Norwich city centre. The photographer I am using as a base is Amani Willett. Willett uses the philosophy that every time you look into one of his photos you see something new therefore creates more i

Hi, This will be my last blog post about my 'Portable Window' photoshoots, as this photography investigation comes to a close I have tried to use the same techniques but photograph through the window at night. At first I just photographed light from lamp-posts on my street which worked well with experimenting with a night scene and different shutter speeds/ apertures. However what was a large problem was that since there was very minimal light, to let enough light into the ca

Hello, This post is about my recent portable window photoshoot in the city. What's different about this 'shoot is that it was based on the photographer 'Uta Barth' and I was trying to capture shadows/ silhouettes of people in the frame. The aim of this was to take a blurry photograph with shadows of people, remnants of buildings and nature. The blur gives the effect of pulling away the blemishes of the world and seeing it as unspoiled without the grim detail. Uta Barth uses t

Hello, This post is about my 3rd photoshoot with my portable window, for this time I went into Norwich city centre to photograph Christmas lights in trees/ buildings and a light tunnel that continuously changes colour. This is different from my previous photoshoots as I used a macro lens so that I could use the lowest aperture possible on the DSLR so that the droplet would remain in focus while the background would be very out of focus and would also blend the colours togethe