Second year project

Brief Summary: This project is based on street photography. The art of capturing candid photographs, un staged and un posed in a public domain making it considered “street”. This project is an Introduction to the use of a 35mm SLR camera and black and white darkroom techniques as one would need to develop one’s film photographs after 2 are chosen. The skills of shutter speed, film speed and aperture are used to create either, freeze movement, motion, maximum depth of field, minimum depth of field.

Rationale: Street photography is something I thoroughly enjoy doing so going out in Eikenof, Rosettenville and Alberton in the South of Johannesburg, wasn’t a forced activity. The images that were chosen are two that best fit the descriptions of maximum depth of field, freeze movement and show movement. The image that shows the two men perfectly frames by the window frames that they’re constructing created a perfectly timed composition with a slight break of pattern with a boy sitting in the door frame. This maximum depth of field gives the viewer a whole image to view with detail. Furthermore, the second image chosen falls under a combination between freeze movement and show movement. The boy shooting the ball being frozen yet the boy trying to block the ball along with the ball itself shows movement. The combination creates an interesting balance between fast and slow shutter speed and therefore is successful in capturing both types of movement.