Shoot 2 - Work Record

When shooting for the second shoot, I took more pictures in Camden and then I moved on to Tottenham court road where I captured images in Berwick St, Regents and Carnaby. I wanted to further my ideas and continue to walk around in these locations with ideas that I already had for shooting but mostly just relating and finding things to take pictures of which I thought linked to subculture. In the second location it obviously shows off a different part of London and therefore different culture. I shot using the canon 400D once again. 

In this image that I took in Camden, it is of a punk with a sign speaking to another punk out of the frame, in a busy street with ordinary people walking past. First of all I love the colours in the image, there is a lot going on and the bright colours of the punks sign, the trees and the shops behind on the other side of the road really add to the busyness of the scene. This helps to create a realistic atmosphere of camden and punks, I chose to shoot a punk because of the cultural significance, the youth subculture of punk started in the late 70's this was a massive cultural phenomenon, it is not so popular anymore and so I wanted to show how important a place like Camden because punk can still be found there, it shows he timelessness of the place. I was heavily influenced by Derek Ridgers as he shoots mainly different groups in youth such as punks, skinheads, mods etc, therefore I used his work to give me ideas about the subject matter I could shoot and the cultural importance that it has. For camera settings I used quite a wide aperture hence the depth of field and bright contrast of the image. I think the image can reveal a lot about what it means to be punk. 

In this image it is in my second location Tottenham Court Road it is of road called Berwick Street, the lines of the image are the first thing that the viewer is drawn in to, there are so many different buildings, the shapes and outlines all make the image, only a very small caption of the sky is visible, the colours of all the buildings and size really contrast against my last location, there is more of an upmarket cosmopolitan atmosphere in the second shot, the colours are bright and contrasting, when editing the image I turned up the contrast a little bit to just bring out that colours a bit more, the main subject of the piece would be the bus as it is the largest part of the image which is the landscape or houses also the colur of it as it is bright red and automatically captures the viewers attention. There is also an old lady walking along the street, other people can also be seen in the background, due to my aperture and iso levels there is good amour of depth of field and quite mute lighting this helps to make everything contrast especially as where I have taken the image I am sheltered by the buildings blocking the light straight on form the cameras. The choice to take this was due to the location, Berwick Street is a massively culturally rich place, all down the street it is full of guitar shops, the rolling stones recorded in on of the studios on this road, it has a really important history and therefore influence on musicians over the years. I used the style of Martin Parr as he seems to capture ordinary British life, this image that I have taken is influenced by that because it is a culturally rich London scene, it is very ordinary as there is a London bus visible and a busy street with a high rise building in the background.

In this shoot, I have achieved all that I have set out to do I have successfully shot a different part of London and analysed the link that this therefore plays on the different type of subculture that there are. I have shown diversity in types of shots for example I have shown landscape, more subject based shots, pictures of objects and buildings, I have tried to be as broad as possible and shoot a wide range of relevant things on youth subculture.