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For our Mark Evison project, we challenged ourselves to choose 3 diverse locations to take pictures of. Three out of four of us had no experience taking photos so we began by analysing photos by different photographers and researching methods used by professional photographers. The challenge did not stop here… we wanted our photos to be good enough to sell in order to raise money for charity.
On the first day we decided to book a train ticket from London all the way to Brighton as we wanted to explore a range of different landscapes around England and the Brighton setting was very different to the other locations we had chosen to go to. We decided to stay there from 11 to 5 in which gave us enough time to explore around and find out different places to take photos. We wanted the outcome of our photos to be very unique and different as anyone could take a photo of the sea we used different camera settings to capture the movements of waves and different exposures to capture the light and dark of certain areas. We took a range of landscape photos which consisted of the sea, different buildings and also a funfair ground. One thing that was quite challenging when taking photos in this location was that there tended to be a lot of people and when trying to take the photos they got in the way. We resolved this problem by using the zoom effect on the camera which allowed them to be cropped out. One benefit of taking photos in this location is that it allowed us to gain a different insight to England and the weather was also good which made our pictures look more towards the landscape theme and gave it a calm , relaxed vibe.
On the second day we had planned to go to Oxford because of the unique architecture and beautiful gardens. We spent time analysing other people’s photographs of the area before setting out on our train journey. When we arrived we walked to the botanical gardens and began taking photos of the buildings, they were unlike any buildings we saw in Brighton or London, the buildings were hundreds of years old and gave off an antique vibe which contrasted from the modern, edgy vibe of London.
On the third day we decided to go to Camden town for our London trip, it’s located just above central London and it’s famous for its artistic and contrasting atmosphere it holds when you walk in the Main Street. As we walked into the crowded street, we came across with a lot of very artistic graffiti, massive graphic signs of objects above each shop we thought it represented the shop beneath but we have researched that all these signs have history like there’s a lot of the big shoe signs because back in 1990s Camden street was the home of Dr martens also same with the dark but fascinating side of the tattoos and piercings that represents art. We have also explored the market which is filled up with different cultures of food and clothes. Camden, despite all the modernity, holds a very 1950s atmosphere which is what makes it such a tourist attraction. We held many abstract pictures due to the amazing scenery but what was challenging was the amount of people. It didn’t help us capture pictures very quickly as we had to wait for openings. We picked Camden as we didn’t really know much about it, which made it more intriguing and amusing when we got there, unlike central London which has the Big Ben and the London eye that everyone knows about. We really liked getting to know a part of London we didn’t know about in the first place.
