Plan
The purpose of this shoot is to convey not only the danger and severity of the sport of mountain biking, but also to express the beauty of the surrounding landscape through compelling lighting, textures and colours.
The plan for this final piece figure shoot is to take lots of inspiration from the style of photography produced by Chris Burkard (one of my critical studies). This would involve showing an effective landscape surrounding the athlete that I am capturing, this could include grandiose scenery's, fine textures, or dominant natural colours. But most importantly, create a set of three images that show the athlete is part of their surroundings, so its visibly possible to realise the athlete belongs where they are.
Chris Burkard's approach to capturing photos always starts with a prolific thought of composition process, as he believes this is what makes the difference between a bad, good and great photograph and I completely agree with him. So by taking this strong thought process into the field when shooting my final piece shoot, I will aim to create effectively composed photograph's that will also help blend the subject in with its surroundings by using creative perspectives as well.
Chris Burkard is a massive believer in natural light and largely prefers it too artificial forms. This is due to the fact the photographer has to be more aware and intelligent when capturing images, as you have to be cautious on what times of day would be best to shoot as lighting changes fast, sometimes you have to rely on getting lucky, which often involves waiting around for hours just for one gap within the clouds, or one ray of lighting to shine through the trees.
I will be taking inspiration from this way of thinking as I would like to achieve some compelling images with appealing lighting, however at this time of year the sun isn't as warm coloured so to enhance this I will be using an external flash in some of my images with an orange flash gel to warm the scene and adapt the colour balance slightly rather than losing quality in the image by working on it too much in post production.
Chris Burkard also likes to saturate his images a lot in post production to create a more eye catching frame so this is something I would like to influence into the images produced on this shoot.
I will be conducting my shoot in a fairly local wood, in hope of some good lighting to change the way my images are looked at. I will be shooting dominantly around mid-day due to the fact I want some bright sunlight within the trees in the background. However this may create an unbalanced exposure, meaning I will have to use soft graduated neutral density and polarising filters to solve this.
I will be photographing mountain biking for my final piece as this has developed as being my favourite extreme sport and its fairly accessible at this time of year. I will be using a selection of Burkard's thought processes and techniques (as shown above) to create unique and compelling images of this sport.
The plan for this final piece figure shoot is to take lots of inspiration from the style of photography produced by Chris Burkard (one of my critical studies). This would involve showing an effective landscape surrounding the athlete that I am capturing, this could include grandiose scenery's, fine textures, or dominant natural colours. But most importantly, create a set of three images that show the athlete is part of their surroundings, so its visibly possible to realise the athlete belongs where they are.
Chris Burkard's approach to capturing photos always starts with a prolific thought of composition process, as he believes this is what makes the difference between a bad, good and great photograph and I completely agree with him. So by taking this strong thought process into the field when shooting my final piece shoot, I will aim to create effectively composed photograph's that will also help blend the subject in with its surroundings by using creative perspectives as well.
Chris Burkard is a massive believer in natural light and largely prefers it too artificial forms. This is due to the fact the photographer has to be more aware and intelligent when capturing images, as you have to be cautious on what times of day would be best to shoot as lighting changes fast, sometimes you have to rely on getting lucky, which often involves waiting around for hours just for one gap within the clouds, or one ray of lighting to shine through the trees.
I will be taking inspiration from this way of thinking as I would like to achieve some compelling images with appealing lighting, however at this time of year the sun isn't as warm coloured so to enhance this I will be using an external flash in some of my images with an orange flash gel to warm the scene and adapt the colour balance slightly rather than losing quality in the image by working on it too much in post production.
Chris Burkard also likes to saturate his images a lot in post production to create a more eye catching frame so this is something I would like to influence into the images produced on this shoot.
I will be conducting my shoot in a fairly local wood, in hope of some good lighting to change the way my images are looked at. I will be shooting dominantly around mid-day due to the fact I want some bright sunlight within the trees in the background. However this may create an unbalanced exposure, meaning I will have to use soft graduated neutral density and polarising filters to solve this.
I will be photographing mountain biking for my final piece as this has developed as being my favourite extreme sport and its fairly accessible at this time of year. I will be using a selection of Burkard's thought processes and techniques (as shown above) to create unique and compelling images of this sport.