My favourite images from this shoot are found below.
I started off by walking around the site and photographing the different piles of waste, they are organised into different materials. I quite like this image because the viewer doesn't really have and idea of what they are looking at which then makes them study it for longer.
Compared to the first image I much prefer this, this is because I think the lines and shapes it has created at much more random. Which thus gives the photograph an abstract feeling, I think if this image was enlarged it could look really good because it would force the viewer to question what they're looking at.
This is one of my favourite images that I took on this shoot, the reason for this is that I love the pattern that round metal saucers have created, it looks as if they re flowing down the mountain of metal which gives the photographs an element of movement. Furthermore, I looks like its an alien planet or something, because most viewers will have never seen a pile of waste looking like this. It almost looks brand new and clean due to how shiny it is, which contrasts its discarded waste element.
Like the image found above, this creates the same alien landscape feeling and also how its all waste but due to its colour and shine it almost looks brand new. The viewer when looking at this takes a while to figure out that it is a pile of waste, which can be seen by the crushed Carling cans within the photo. Also the numbers written on the metal in the top right of the image also give the viewer an idea of the human element.
This is another favourite image of mine, it also releases the same alien landscape feeling as the images I have talked about before it. Also I love the crushed metal affect that can be seen in the centre of the composition, it gives the image a really nice rippled pattern effect that gives it a nice tactility.
I think this image, and the other images I have commented on, would go perfectly in the exhibition book I need to make which goes along side my exhibition final piece because they make a really nice collection together. Like some of the other images the high detail gives the photograph a really nice tactility, the shapes and patterns that have been created from the bent metal just increase this as well.
The two images above and below are the result of when I fixed my close up high detailed gaze to the mountains of household good waste. I think compared to the close up photographs of the metal, these have a great range of different colour and repetition patterns in them. Also at first these images just look like loads of litter, but when one begins studying the image you can see all the household items that we use every day such as hoovers and irons, this means that even though this looks like an alien photographs compared to what we are use to, its made up of the items we all will throw away at some point. Again I think if these images were enlarged big for the exhibition it would look better.
These two images above and below capture a huge scrap metal pile at least 70 ft tall, the scale of the waste at this site is amazingly big for a place that is in the centre of Coventry. Like the two photographs before it I think its interesting that before looking closely at the image it just looks like random bits of scrap metal you would never encounter, until you look closer and realise the everyday household items you throw away has created this pile. So hopefully when a viewer looks at this image it should make them think about where something ends up when its thrown out. I like the image below more than the photograph above because of the red van that has been captured, it means that the viewer has a sense of scale that they didn't have when looking just at the image above. Because most people know the size of a van so then they can start imagining the size of the waste pile.
After getting back from the shoot and looking at at this image, I've realised how good it could be if I re-shot it on a tripod so I could use a larger f/stop. I think the tonal affect the rust and the water creates makes this image so nice to look at, but it was really difficult to focus on at the time due to the high sunlight and the metal shards being really small to focus the camera on. Hopefully at some point I will photographs this again to produce an image that hopefully does it justice.
This image captures the liquid that flows from out of the metal pile and I though it would be interesting to produce a close up image of it. Its also interesting so see the different bi-products of waste that a pile of metal creates.
I think this shoot went really well to produce images that are comparable to the ones of Chris Jordan. Some of the images I want to photograph again but using a tripod, when I can get my hands onto one that is. Hopefully for my next shoot I can make this happen. I think that finally I am producing images that are off final piece quality.