Chelsea Photography

My plan for Chelsea photo shoot was to take picture of every shop in King's road,

Which I did. Almost.

My equipment was just Nikon camera with 18-55mm lens.

I had to adjust camera settings and focal lenght for each shop individually, as they all were differently lit, and made of different materials and colors. Later I combined all the photos in one sheet, which looks like this:



EVALUATION:

The main weakness of the photos is, that due to short amount of time we were alowed to spend, and a huge amount of shops located on King's road I had to take photos in great rush, and due to very different lighting conditions and shops paint I had to quickly adjust shutter speed, as I dont trust automatic settings. Because of reasons. This caused many photos to be overexposed or underexposed.
Also I had to wait, untill all bypassers bypassed so I could have picture of a shop, not them. It took time, and sometimes I had to react really quickly, so this also leaded to some defects.

HEALTH AND SAFETY:
Basicly, the road was crowdy, so I had to be aware not to run into someone, or fall.
Sometimes I had to take photos from  the road, to get better angle. This is quite dangerous, because I might get hit by a car or bus. So I had to ask someone to warn me, when the car drives, so I could escape.

Contact sheet of all pictures I took during the trip:

 

This photo was taken away from Chelsea during same trip.
I was inspired by Akos Major photography, and how he manages to get very easy and light photos of urban landscapes.

It was very sunny, so I chosed exposure around 1/1000, which, was enough to get sky not overexposed, but made shadows a bit too dark.

Beautifuly unhinged

Theese are photography based Beautifuly Unhinged book covers.







This is collage done using many and many photos and a big photo with a shiluette.

Foreground+background

Photo was taken from a footbridge over railway using mobile camera with automatic settings.
I put the bottle in the foreground to create illusion that background train and station are really just small toys.

Self portrait

This photo was taken using cheap Olympus camera with all automatic settings and a tripod. We were using 500w light facing white ceiling where it reflected back us diffused. I had to push button with my left hand as there was no timer. Later I desaturated photo in Photoshop and did some retouch magic.

Experimental photography

Photo was taken while preparing for the countryside photoshoot. I was testing the camera lens and camera settings. They were f1.8, 1/2000, ISO 200.

Experimental photography

Here I tried to capture moment where sky is getting brighter but there is still no sun. Photo was taken in the middle of the field near the abandoned railway. I used to shoot nearly from the ground to better express the mood and show the railway, because I loke them.



This photo was taken on a random walk using Canon 550D and old Zenit 50mm lens. The keylight was the streetlight from the front and for the backlight I had to wait for the car to pass by and be lucky enough to press button on right moment. This was really hard, as after midnight there weren't many cars on the street.

The photo doesn't have perfect focus and composition as it was done in very dark enviroment and in great rush.