Re-Creating fashion photography

Kirkstall Abbey

We went to Kirstall Abbey whilst it was dark. We set out cameras to a shutter speed of 30" and took the photos so they looked like it was during the day.

Documentary, Part 2 - Task 1

For my project I have to decided to choose the theme of Leeds 2011. Within this theme I have chosen to photograph the different types of people that are seen around Leeds everyday. There are many different types of social groups around the city centre so I have chose to photograph those. I am going to shoot these images in the style of street photography. The people who I will be photographing will not be asked to pose for me they will taken as the people are just passing by. These images will not all have one certain style, they will all be different as the style of the image will reflect the type of person that I am photographing in each image. One photographers work that inspired me and is like the work I am going to be shooting is Philip Lorca Dicorcia's heads. Here are examples of his work.

I have been around Leeds City Centre taking photographs of people that I think are of different social groups and are different from each other. Here are the test shots from my shoot.

Some of the images that I short a bit out of focus and blurred, this is because I took the photos as the people were walking/moving so I need to make sure that my shutter speed is fast enough so that I do no get any motion blur in my images. 

re-creating student life images test shots

There are just some practice shots that I have taken around the theme of student life. I have tried to re-create some images I found online that I think are based on student life. These are just a couple of test shots and not my final images.

This doesn't really look the original image because it was dark where I took the image so I had to use flash. This ash tray also doesn't look like the one in the photo I am trying to re-create but this is the only chance I got to take a photo of an ash tray.

This is image also isn't like the on i was trying to re-create. The cigarette is facing the opposite way but I am glad that I achieved the shallow depth of field like the original image.

This image isn't a picture of a bar in a pub, instead I took a picture of my friends in the pub. Instead of showing just a pub this also shows socialising which is another part of student life.