Beate

Location photography

I had to be inspired by Beate Gutschow, who takes geometric humanless urban photography.

I tried the best I could, but still did them in my own way.
She uses wide angle lenses and surreal object in the composition, while I was using 50mm lens and more pattern based content.

Akos Major photography

Akos Major is a hungarian photographer, who uses minimalictic approach to his works. In majority of his photos he shoots industrial and nature landscapes. He also likes to use a lot of white space, which makes his photographies to seem very light and easy.

Reflection

Theese are photos, where I was exploring reflection on different surfaces.

Because of asphalt surface, the further from it the object is, the more diffused reflection is. So if you look closely, you wont notice anything, but if you look at it from a distance you can notice some figure there.

Although the surface is nearly smooth, it still is little bit curved, which causes reflections to distort.

The snow on glossy surface gives us interesting pattern.

I choosed all photos to be black and white, to focus more attention on the reflection.

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.