My Final Images

My final images

The 7 images below are my complete city series. I believe each image to represent and respond to my city brief. Throughout this project I have been trying to create a series which shows the crowded hustle and bustle within the city. I wanted my images not only to be about the crowd but also those individuals who are within the crowd getting on with the busy day. I chose these images as the clear focus within the image means as you view the image you notice different people and faces doing different things. Some of my images do in fact have people who clearly stand out within the image due to what they are doing or wearing but this was not my initial plan, however I believe this invites the viewer to search the image for other people and look at what they are doing.

Groups of People Final Attempt

I captured the images below using a Nikon D90 with a Sigma 105mmmacro lens. From my previous group shots I knew that I would have to use a better lens that is why I chose this particular lens. My images using this lens are vastly improved. My images are clearer and therefore the images are more successful. The aim of my images were to encapsulate my thoughts on the city. From the images below I have chosen my final images. I needed to examine each image very carefully to try to create a series which responded to my city brief. 

Groups of People 2nd Attempt

From the feedback from my first work I conducted further research into more photographers and artists. I decided that I would continue photographing crowds but I wanted to show the crowds from a different angle.

I found a place to stand where I could take photographs of crowds as they passed infront or below me. These are the images I produced.

After getting feedback on these images it was decided that my less successful ones were the more CCTV like images which look down on people as they walk past. I decided that I would capture more images like the group shots. I used a Nikon D90 with a 18-200 lens as I now realise that if I use a different lens that the images would be clearer and you would be able to see the faces within the crowd instead of them being blurred. Within my sketch book I have discussed the clear pros and cons to these images and how I will now act to try to improve these images.

Andrew Gursky

I particularly like Andrew Gurskys work because it shows mass numbers of people without focusing on anyone. The images are in sharp focus meaning no one stands out more than anyone else so you do not look at anyone individually.

Few of us have traveled as widely as Gursky and fewer still have visited such places as the Tokyo stock exchange, the Siemens plant at Karlsruhe, the General Assembly building in Brasília, or the Sha Tin racetrack near Hong Kong. But our omnivorous image industry—the slick illustrations of corporate advertising, the overabundant photography of magazines and newspapers, the ceaselessly roving eye of television—has processed, packaged, and delivered all of this and more. Gursky’s originality lies in the vividness and wit with which he has distilled compelling images from the plenitude of this commercialized image world.

The distinctiveness of this achievement arises from the hybrid character of Gursky’s art, which draws upon a great diversity of precedents, currents, and techniques. He has embraced the gaudy blandishments of advertising without abandoning the keen observations of documentary photography. He has emulated the grandeur of German Romantic painting and the principled reserve of Minimalist abstraction in part by exploring the hyperbolic fictions of digital manipulation. Gursky’s polished, signature style is the fruit of restless experiment; the more he has welcomed divergent and often mutually antagonistic impulses into his art, the more it has become his own.

http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2001/gursky/index.html