Specialist Location UNIT 31

UNIT 31

P1:

When you do certain location photography, depending on what you are doing for example the different types of photography they require different things.

If you are going on a fashion shoot outside in a specialist location you would probably take a Camera which is a medium format digital DSLR camera and perhaps some lighting depending on where you are going.

If you are going to picture still life shots outside with a background behind it to set the scene you would probably not need any specific lighting as if it is daytime you can change the cameras settings lighting and white balance to day time so you would not need additional lighting.

Sometimes when you go to a location photo shoot it can be similar to still life as you wouldn't need additional lighting but if its a dark sky or grey then you need an extra boot sometimes you can add box lighting to a situation, this can really highlight what you want to stand out. Annie Leibovitz specialises in uses lighting photography for location shoots.

In the factory work I could have used a macro lens which is specialist as well because I was taking close up shots, through out the photoshoot at the factory I could have used a tripod which was really needed when I wanted to watch a fast moving conveyor belt.
This would have been easier because the I wouldn't have camera shake even though I did lean on the side lightly.  I did rely on and use the given lighting of the factory which was very good.

Specialised Location Images: 

There are a few selected images which show why sometimes I needed accessories than what I originally had..

 

For example for the first image there was hard to picture and I used the flash on my camera to brighten the image up.. I think it if it was lower down I could have used a tri-pod against it and additional flip gun lighting would have helped massively.

This second image could have been much better of what I wanted it to look like because it was moving so fast and I didn't have a try pod it was harder to get the result I wanted.
 

  When I spoke to my tutor about this image he noticed that I could have had extra light on the sides of the men but it wouldn't have exposed the men. 

 

M1:

When you go to specialist locations depending on where you are going different types of photography expects different things from you. when you go to a fashion photoshoot on location it would probably look like this which is one from Annie Leibovitz;  this as you can see would be quite a dull day as it is grey so she would need additional lighting.






Comparing this to a different type of specialist location would be different because even though the weather at the time would be completely different you would need higher knowledge of what camera settings you need so when you take the photo even if you haven't got the additional lighting it would still be down to the photographer to come up with the goods.

 

D1:

 There are several types of specialist locations. These vary from outside lighting locations to also indoor lighting locations. from reading an artists work named Chris Wray, he uses location photography to sell commercial products: http://www.chris-wray.com/commercial_photography/root/blog/ this is his blog work and describes to us how yoiu need location photography all year round. He talks about how the product he sells can contrast with the walls behind and most of it is using natural light. In one image the guy is lying on the grass like its a hot summers days with his phone in a T-shirt with the brand of earphone next to him, even though the reader does not know that the image was took in october so had to use as much light as they could before the sun set. This typical location was shot in a park.

Looking for asrtists who specilise in working in location photography I have came across Locations Photography LTD. This is a man who works for  acompany who takes images of commercial products but in location areas. his website mentions how he has to take out specilist equipment to different places and has to travel there etc. http://www.locationsphotography.co.uk/index.html   his work ranges from takign images of things on fire promoting the fire services to vans for the Royal Mail which all have to use different lighting techniques.
 

 Another Specialist Location photographer I have found is named Chris Taylor, he takes different and several types of photography images which include, Landscapes to Lifestyle, Portraits to Public Events. When he arrives at the location he holds a service so he can take his mobile studio (including light backdrops) Sometimes the difficulty with artists are that when you are at a location depending on what youre doing specificically its not easy to use lighting well. http://www.takenbychris.co.uk/portfolio/locations




P2:

As I have not been able to take any specialist lighting with me to the location I know what I should taken which was a tripod, outside lighting and a flashgun.  

M2:

As I havnt taken any specific lighting to the photoshoot I will write about what I would use if I did take it and where I would use it in what places and positions. The places I would be using are the flash gun would be used if I was photographing certain close up objects,  The main lighting would be used outside for the street lights or signs and construction men.

D2:

The flashgun gun ideas would be used as a close up as it is a direct flash to the object. If I used the flashgun specifically on the outside street lighting on signs it would make it excessively bright.
If iI was to photograph the construction men with the flashgun because it was during broadday light it would not have a massive effect. Although using the extra daylight and the outside location lighting can block out many colours
this is for example a coffee capsule from the Dulcho as the object is small itself.

Using the outside location lighting would be a good idea for using it outside of the workplace as well as inside. This will be effective because  if there are dark spaces inside then the light will brighten the room and will level it. If it is used outside then it would light up the area more and really highlight wants needs to be looked at mainly.
There are artists what use this such as Annie Leibovitz. When she takes her location lightin out sometimes you cant tell that it is actually there but it lightens up the whole areas for the actors to look flawless everytime.
Annie also uses a blend of natural light in her images as well and indoor lights like she used in the photoshoot of Her majesty the Queen, she was stood by the window gazing out aswell as having indoor lighting.

My ideas are to take several images throughout nestlé in the different work room and parts of the factory. I will be expecting to capture images of the jars in which the coffee will be in for exmaple either the packing and filling room, or the Dolche Gusto part where they make miniature capsules, the people working and the workers shall be working whilst I take images of them; they will preferably be at a computer controlling the machines or they will be at a desk working or looking at the camera, i am thinking objects on conveyor belts, which i will be capturing at a certain speed so my shutter speed setting will be different, and workers holding things, for example, tools so it shows to the audience how you are supposed to check something or hold something.

P3 IMAGES:

        
 M3:

 

 

D3:

these images are the images I have specifically chosen for D3, I will explain why each is as impirtant as the other and how I have produced location shots showing fully my planned intentions.

  This photo was one of the images where I caught them in the act of working. I was hoping I would get one of these images without me asking it to be set up. (it was already on going) this image shows team work

This image I have chosen to be in my D3 selection. I have chosen this because even though this is a man at his office I think it is effective because you would think everything is machinery but it isnt, instead its a man at work.  

One of my ideas was to try and photograph something in the location area what looked abstract, something different to everyday factory life. As other people are taking images of machinery which includes myself I came across this which I love about how the colours are always opposite eachother.

This would be my idea of photographing something that was really important to the factory which was this special keypad and lock. On a hanging wall there was loads of keys to this one lock which always had to remained locked unless there was a certain reason for opening it but the man who toured me persisted that this was a most important part of the factory.

I have icluded this image in one of my final images of the assignment because I like how I have prposely kept the colour in this image. One of the good things about dolche gusto was that the capsules were different coloured which made it fresh and great to look at so I kept this idea for the editing of this image.

This image is the same for why i have chosen it, I wanted (like I mentioned before) how I wanted images of the workers actually working as well as not working. This was a good action shot of the man on the left moving the boxes into this big container and I like how there is slightly a little bit of symettry how they are both facing each other as well.

This is my second abstract image i have chosen to go into my D3 because I do need variation. I like this image because of the fact you can see through so many wholes when you have seen the most it feels like you want to find more so it makes you look at the photo more and be more engaged with the image.

I wanted to bring in an image with different dimensions to it so I took this from quite a high view looking down and I had to use the flash which was already used on my camera, I like the way it shimmers the colours as without this flash the wole container was black. I love how there is a sense of direction in this image waswell with these cylinders going down which reminds me of a sand-dune,

 I have chosen this image because i really think it represents the factory and what it stands for. its one of those typical image where some one has their hands with the product in. this image would be closest to a commerical image. 

 

 

This is one of the images where I wanted the contruction men in it. It was a shame because I could only take the images behind the fence and i personally wanted to get inside of the fence.

I really like what the men were doing that day because when they saw me they all looked or turned their heads and the guy put his thumbs up so it shows the humour of what construction life can be like.

This is one of the images of a worker at a computer that I took. I like this because half of the viewers eye are on the worker Ken, and the other half is on the other side or mainly at the computer desk. I like how this image is different because you can only see half of him.

For one of the criteria i had chosen then i wanted to take images of the packaging and how it comes out, this includes the vases what coffe goies into which I have already photograped and also the boxes the dolche gusto comes out into also. This image is of the boxes on a conveyor belt which moves them all to the machine what they piles the capsuels into them.

This is a shot of a conveyor belt which I explained in my plans. I wasnt sure what the belt would look like and I was imagining it to be wider but it was quite thin so was a challenge to say the least. this was one of my better shots as I take to take it quite still whilst it was moving quickly.

 

 

P4:

Throughout the assignment if I had to review my own work I think the images I have placed forward are quite successful images. Some ideas changed on what I wanted to do and I think there are quite a wide variety of types of images I am happy with what I have produced; these images have been shot from different parts of the factory and not all just in one place. For example the rooms might have all the same things in but I have photographed all separate rooms.

 

M4:

My ideas for this assignment started when I wanted to take images of construction men at the start of the street, I got inspiration from Eric drooker who draws and paints images of city life in Manhattan and wanted to create a new look for this assignment.
I justified this in the end by going round the factory which was pretty late planned after I had to wait for permission to enter the site.
Inside I managed to take some of my working practises by photographing the construction sites but not how I wanted or expected.
The images were quite successful.

Another idea was to take images of still life and vary these images with different types of photography. This includes still life, location photography, and portraits. These practises were fulfilled when I was able to take shots of capsules in the factory, workers in the factory, some working and some not, portraits of factory workers but people in offices as well the main people running the site.

Comparing my construction site work to Michael Molloys work who I have been inspired by the main thing what let me down was where I was standing about; because there was a fence in front of the workers and the area they were in was going into the ground and was so small, I was unable to get in front of the fence unlike the artist I had researched that was open planned and quite a big area so I was unable to take images similar to his.

D4:

My ideas for the factory assignment came to me when I was thinking of the basics. Everyone would go to a factory or a place where a friend or loved one worked and took photos of them. I thought that people would be photographing people and machines. Mainly machine) so I didn’t want to copy the rest so I had to think of an idea what would set mine afar from the rest.

When I first came up with Eric Drooker and saw his work I was really inspired by it and thought; yeah I think this can work as a pass. Coming up with some creative drawings I realised that this wasn’t going to get me where I wanted to go with this assignment so I went straight in by looking at artists what deal with work.

When I came to an artist named Gabriele Basilico I noticed all of his images are photographed on a film camera always shot in black and white.
Many of his work have got various compositions in the images which I love. I most wanted to take images that would look really effective in black and white so they could like similar or have the same feel to the images Gabriele has created.

Another artist I loved looking at their work was Thomas Struth, his outside location photography work is amazing, I love the way he always seems to give a direction to his images whatever he is photographing. His images look like they have a sense of oldness to them and portraying this into my images would be really effective I think.
I have done this by changing a few of what I think would look effective in black and white and placing them in the post Photo Experiments where I put them in black and white

When I evaluate my work I think that I could have took certain elements and equipment to the photo shoot to maximise my picture quality allot better. The camera I used was great but I think if I had some additional lighting to the area then I think the exposure of certain images would have looked much better.
I also hoped for more things to photograph outside of the factory because on my artists research many of their photos where about the streets of the work place and how everything moves around it, for example what goes into the place and what comes out. Obviously I was restricted to what I could photograph and some things had to be kept confidential so I had to use that knowledge to my potential and photograph things what would really make people second look at a factory photo shoot because I didn't want to take photos of just machinery work and normally that’s what people would associate to the working life of factory people.
This is why I have varied my images from the objects coming out and what goes in.