DOCUMENTARY

DOCUMENTARY

PHOTO DOCUMENTARY

REFERS TO A TRPE OF PHOTOGRAPHY THAT CHRONICLES EVENTS OR ENVIRONMENTS, BOTH SIGNIFICANT AND INSIGNIFICANT TO HISTORY, BUT ALSO EVERYDAY LIFE.

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON WAS A FRENCH BORN HUMANITARIAN PHOTOGRAPHER AND PHOTOJOURNALIST. HE IS REVERED AS THE FATHER OF PHOTOJOURNALISM AND WAS A PIONEER IN THE GENRE OF STREET PHOTOGRAPHY AND CANDID PHOTOGRAPHY. HE BASED ALOT OF HIS PHOTOGRAPHY OF WHAT HE REFERRED TO AS 'THE DECISIVE MOMENT'.

THE DECISIVE MOMENT

"the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organisation of forms which gives that event its proper expression."

there was a single instant in which the meaning of an event was most clearly represented graphically. It was the responsibility of the photographer to capture that representation. 

DON MCCULLIN

DON MCCULLIN IS A BRITISH BORN PHOTOJOURNALIST WHOM BORN NAD LIVES IN FINSBURY PARK, ISLINGTON IN NORTH LONDON. HE IS USUALLY DISTINGUISHED FOR HIS WAR-TIME PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE CYPRUS CONFLICT AND URBAN EXPANSION. HE SPECIALISED IN PRESENTING IN THE UNDERBELLY AND RAGGE SIDE AND PEOPLE OF SOCIETY AND SHOWING THE IMPOVERISHED, THE DOWNTRODDEN AND THE UNEMPLOYED.

JHON DAVIES

JHON DAVIES IS A BRITISH BORN NOTTINGHAM LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHER, BORN IN 1949. HE FOCUSES ON INDUSTRIALISATION OF SPACE AND WAS NOMINATED FOR THE DEUTSCHE BORSE PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD. HE HAS ALSO WRITTEN MULTIPLE BOOKS. INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TOO; A GREEN & PLEASANT LAND AND A HISTORY OF WALES. 

URBAN SPRAWL, EXPANSION AND ISOLATION

MY THEME FOR THE PROJECT IS 'URBAN SPRAWL, EXPANSION AND ISOLATION'

THIS FITS INTO THE UNDERLINE THEME OF 'MY LIFE', AS URBAN SPRAWL/ EXPANSION IS EVER PREVALENT IN OUR LIVES WITH THE GROWING DEMAND AND USE FOR TECHNOLOGY AND INFRASTRUCTURE, OF WHICH CAN MAK TH WORLD IN SIDE LARDGE CITIES DAUNTING AND ISOLATING.

AO:1.  You must ensure that several of the visual ideas/inspirations within the image bank are pursued.




Best Images



AO3: Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to intentions, reflecting critically on work and progress.

My idea for photographing a Documentary project was to document isolation in conduction with urban areas and environments. I did this by using by using monochromatic editings to shows the los of colour in the world, but leaving the red to represents the harshness and danger in urban environments. This plays into the theories related to tone, line and colour, as urban areas have very harsh geometric builds and structures, and as i am using black, white and red.

The pictures came out as expected, but in the future i need to pay more attention to ISO and Aperture settings.

In refrence to my best photos...

AO2: Explore and select appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes, reviewing and refining ideas as work develops.

I used a Nikon D330 for my shoot. I used the Apeture Priority setting for most the photos on a f. 4.2 at 1/60 of a second.

If i was to reshoot I would a tripod as some of my images were slanted and so needed to be cropped.

To edit the photos I; turned down the hue and saturation setting down to its lowest, then I used the smudge tool to isolate the red (if there was any red ), then i made a new hue and saturation layer, and made it very saturate to show the reds better.

AO1: Develop ideas through sustained and focused investigations informed by contextual and other sources, demonstrating analytical and critical understanding.

AO4: Present a personal and meaningful response that realises intentions and, where appropriate, makes connections between visual and other elements.