Shoot 1 Work Record

Work Record


Plans for shoot
In this shoot I plant to take images related to my family's everyday activities and what they do in their life. This shoot will be linked to my component 2 work where I also documented my family's life but in a stereotypical way rather than actually documenting what they do.

What I plan to achieve
In this shoot I plan to achieve capturing the everyday activities of my family. I want to document my mum making dinner and going to work and document my brother and sisters activities after school.

What I actually achieved

In this image we can see a woman in the car on her way to work as she is clearly in her uniform. I decided to capture this picture in this way because I wanted to show her everyday activities and her journey to work represents this. The background adds detail and effect to the image because it shows that that car is moving. The greenery is slightly out of focus but I think this gives the image a good effect as it shows that the car wasn't stationary. This image doesn't necessarily have depth of field because we cannot see very far into the distance, I didn't initially want this image to have depth of field because I was only capturing what was happening inside the vehicle rather than on the outside. We can tell what the main focus of this image is, it is the woman and the fact that everything else around her is out of focus helps add significance to her. I captured this image with a high aperture because there is a lot of light allowed in this image, it was very dark in the car so I had to change the setting a few times. Also, I used a longer shutter speed to capture the motion blur in the background. This image is what I wanted to achieve because it documents her life well as it shows something she has to do everyday. In the image she looks happy and her mouth is open as if she is singing along to the radio this could show that she is a happy person and doesn’t necessarily hate going to work like the average person.

In this image we can see a girl who looks as if she has just come home from school because she is standing by the front door and she is wearing a school uniform. I wanted to capture this image because it shows what her everyday activities are and the fact that she is coming home from school shows us what she does on a daily bases. I chose to have her looking down at her phone with her headphones in because this also documents a stereotypical life of a teenager in the sense that she isn't paying attention to anything else other than her phone. I used a higher aperture in this image to allow a lot of light into the image because this is a very bright image. I didn't have to use a high shutter speed in this image because she was stationary and she wasn't moving which was easier to capture the image. This photo doesn't show depth of field because we cannot see far into the distance, there isn't supposed to be depth of field in this image because the main focus is right in front of us. I think the composition of this image works well because not only can we see her and what she is doing we can also see a door making it more obvious that she has just come home and showing us what location she is in. The concentration on her face shows us she was intrigued as to what was going on, on her phone. This image is what I wanted to achieve because it shows what her activates consist of when she comes home, playing on her phone as it is highly likely she hasn’t used it all day. Not only does this image document her life but it is also a representation of what every other teenager does when they come home. 

What I am going to do next
Although this shoot is a final shoot, if I was going to improve this shoot then I could take the images using setting on the camera that I have thought of rather than playing with the dial each time and picking what one works best.