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Better version of my photos with sound!

Today I have decided to update my video to hopefully improve it. I have downloaded 2 free tracks from the freesound website to use with my photos and field recording. They are called ‘Terror ambience’ and ‘Deep cinematic rumble’ and I hope that they add a creepy feel to my photos. In addition, I have added a 52% black tint to my photos to make them appear dark and mysterious. I hope that giving my photos more of a theme will help my film to be more interesting. Furthermore, I have added fades to black between each photo as though they are being slowly revealed and taken away from the viewer again. This should further the mysterious feel to my film.

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(It says it won’t let me upload my work because of security reasons)

 

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Current Work

For our submission today, I have put together the best photos from my 2 shoots plus a field recording I took the first time. I am not sure if this is my final product (partly depends on feedback!) but it is certainly something to work with for now.

I have turned off the dissolve transitions that I placed between the photos as it made my photos a bit fuzzy for some reason.

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Second Shoot

I feel the shoot went better today as I had more of an idea of what I was taking photos of. I was looking for items left by the homeless and areas where they have been instead of any random thing. I was trying to take ‘crime scene’ style photos like the ‘Left Behind’ series that I looked at. Here are some of my favourite photos from the shoot:

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These photos are all currently unedited. I tried to take various different photos of objects including close-ups and location shots. I think I will use these with a couple of photos from my previous shoot with a field recording I took of the area for my final piece.

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Left Behind

As I have already taken some ‘crime scene’ style photos of the homeless area of Lincoln, I decided it would be good to look at photographers that have done similar work.

 

Jonathan Hollingsworth created a series called ‘Left Behind’ which was about the Mexicans that attempt to cross over into Arizona in Pima County. Jonathan photographed various different belongings that he found, as well as the landscape and autopsy room of the people that died. I find this documentation style of photography interesting as it is like the sort of crime scene photography that pathologists take except it is just for a photography project. It is also interesting to try and work out what has happened to these people and create stories about what happened in their lives that has led them to where they are now. This is something I can apply to my own photography around the area where the homeless people in Lincoln sleep.

Here are some of my favourite photos from Jonathan’s series:

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The shoe photo is similar to the ones I took in Lincoln. The vultures represent death and predator vs prey.

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What to do next

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These are some more of my favourite photos from my shoot (unedited). I am not sure whether to stick with them or whether to change my theme a little to homelessness or silhouettes or just go and take some more. Currently awaiting feedback from Adam and classmates to see what to do.