Final Photographs

Here are my four final images for my Penarth collaborative project.

I am very happy with my final images and think that these 4 as a set going very well together. I wanted to keep my composition as strong as possible throughout, I did experiment with centring the main focus in my images (as you can see on my contact sheets), however I felt that when it came to selecting my finals that the use of rules of thirds were stronger and the framing was far more tighter, ensuring everything was within the frame.

The first image is my favourite out of the four, I really love the clouds definition and the elderly woman sat on a bench enjoying the beautiful Penarth view. The slight desaturation is exactly what I wanted, especially from my previous artist research. I would of liked to not have the bench on the right side poking in, however I didn't want to crop the image. 

For this image, I was highly influenced by William Eggleston for the low angle viewpoint and Martin Parr for the British stereotype and humour. As you can see in the top right of the frame the Welsh flag is blowing in the wind which I made sure was kept within the frame. I think that the lower angle viewpoint works really well and gives the image a much better viewpoint. 

The two last images above work very well together as a set I think, as the first image shows a sign saying 'No Fishing' and in the last image you can see an old man fishing over the pier, I thought this was showing a humorous side much like Martin Parr and definitely fits in with my commerce/industry title that I was assigned for this project.