For home I decided I would take two methods of shooting. I shot some of the photos on a film camera to see what effect this would have on them and some on a digital camera. I chose to shoot a few on a film camera as it reminded me of all the photos that were taken growing up at home on disposable cameras and older compacts. So this in itself gave it another aspect of home to work in to. While shooting on film it gave me more of a creative and harder decision if I wanted to capture certain moments ad the limit amount of shots per roll of film, because of this I put a lot more thought into what I was framing up.

 

This photo shows one of my good mate going through the centre of my home city so this as it self reminds me of everything I use to do at home. He is also riding a scooter which is involved heavily in skate park use which at home was also a big aspect of my life. The photo it self has many different things going in without it in the fore ground, middle ground and background. The first thing that catches my eye is the guy in the very foreground and the road sweeper these really stand out from the rest as they are a lot darker and brighter colours this shows a contrast in the image which overall more aesthetically pleasing look as it brakes up the colours. The perspective in the shot with the leading lines also adds to the compositional benefits making your eye draw to certain parts of the photograph. This photo isn’t staged which adds to how natural it looks we were just walking down the street when I captured this photo because of how this photo was taken it adds a lot more memories because it also has the whole day connected within the one photo.

 

This photo shows my model sat under a bridge on his skateboard this brings back a lot of memories of home as a lot of my time was spent with mates trying to find somewhere we were able to skate around and just have fun doing what we want to do. The reason he is not riding it is some of the best memories came along from just sitting around spending time with mates not always the activity’s that we were doing. The location especially helps with setting the scene within this shot for me as we were constantly thrown out of places so we always ended up in the oddest place such as car parks and under bridges just to escape from everyone getting annoyed at us for using public places. In this photo I also tried to focus on good composition using the rule of thirds and leading lines to draw your eye into certain parts of the photo. I tried to improve my composition throughout all these shots and I think this is one of the most compositionally pleasing ones. The shallow depth of field gives the feeling as the only thing you are meant to focus on within the photo is the model and nothing else matters as it doesn’t matter where you are but who you are with to create the feeling of home.

 

In this photo it shows my model creating some street art, this was a big thing within my home as there was constantly art everywhere and if you had a great idea there was always a place in which you could express your self and others were able to see it. Art was a big thing growing up at my home seeing it everywhere so doing it also gives me the sense that it could also be recreated back home. I like the diversity between the different layers in this photo with the foreground being totally out of focus but then casting a shadow in the models face in the middle ground which is the only part that is in focus, then the background which is completely out of focus. Contrasting the dark clothes, the model is wearing with the bright greens of the bush helps the model stand out from the surroundings putting a lot more focus on him. This photo was shot in near enough complete darkness with only one light which was slightly behind the model so capturing the shot while keeping the models face fully exposed was quiet tricky to capture this I used a very wide aperture of 1.8 which also helped create the shallow depth of field within the photo.

 

This final photo is off a bit off street art in my home town which is down an alley on the way to the train station in a previous shot. This reminds me of home as I see it most days within my home town and the use of art in the streets is also a big thing from where I am.  This photo also follows the same compositional elements as some of the other shots with the leading lines and the shallow depth of film only focusing on one thing within the photo. This photo also has a darker bottom with the slightly exposed sky in the background. The reason for this within my shots is, it is quiet difficult to get perfectly exposed shots on film without a perfect light metre or other equipment. All my photos follow a very heavily left alignment in the composition which looks a lot better and is always the first thing that draws the eye in. The main colour within the piece the pink writing also follows the rule of thirds and stands out a lot compared to any other colour within the piece. Overall this photo has connation’s attached to home with in the art and the place where the photo was taken.

 

his photo shows my good mate going up the stairs in the train station. The thing that reminds me here is just the stairs them self remind me of how much time I spent there and when ever I go home they are the first thing I see. This photo also has really good composition as this also has many leading lines which all aim upwards to the sky. Along the way to the sky you notice my mate there walking up the stairs as well. The contrast between the blue sky and the yellow and green stairs is also makes the photo more enjoyable to view. This photo is a natural shot without being staged so it just adds to the realism with in this photo which also adds with the idea of home as most things captured at home aren’t staged up to be the best photos but to memories connected to them.

 

The main focus of this photo Is the train pulling into the station. This shows people either coming home or visiting my home town. The train station was such a big part of my home life because of the amount of time I spent travelling my main central point was the train station. Some of my best memories have happened because of the train station being there being able to make it easy to get back home at any point. The composition could be improved in this photo with slightly cropping it so the train would go with the rule of thirds but because I shot this on film I wanted to keep the whole frame in it so it had the effect of a photo that may have been taken as just a home photograph. The lines in the photo also help lead your eyes down the photo seeing all the detail within the shot. The comparison between the bright and darker colours at the bottom of the shot to the slightly over exposed sky is nice as it breaks up the photograph and makes it not look as crowded as it is.

 

The sequence that my photos follows is travelling through my home town, getting to a destination where we are all able to skate, doing some street art throughout, travelling to different locations through home and then the place in which it can take you too or away from home. This brief was very broad so I tried to include a lot of things which reminded me of the great things that have happened in my home town and things I do now that still remind me of being back home.