Shoot 3 - Work Diary

Plans For The Shoot And What I Hope To Achieve
In my next shoot i am going to be travelling to a seaside town, Clacton-On-Sea, to explore the beach, the pier and the main town area as i want to capture the surroundings of the final destination once a journey has occurred. I am hoping to capture the beach, the pier and hopefully the sunset off the pier. This shoot is a development of the shoot i carried out in Brighton during the unit 4 topic, as some several of the pictures from that shoot created a good idea of the concept of journey/arriving at a destination. 

What I Achieved

This image is showing the beach from a head on angle, as to capture the sand and stones in focus and for the waves crashing behind it to be out of focus. It shows the journey that the stones have taken to become sand due to erosion from the sea, as there are still some stones remaining it shows that the journey is not yet complete. It also captures the destination well as it is the beach which represents Clacton-On-Sea well.The camera settings for this image were an aperture F-stop of 4.5, the ISO was 100 and the shutter speed was 1/640. As the beach was behind the camera when this image was taken, a shorter exposure time is required as the subject of the sea is already exposed to enough natural lighting. This is the style of image that i wanted to take as when i was doing the shoot in Brighton i like the outcome of the final images which were similar to this. I like the outcome as i like how both the waves crashing on the shore as well as a small portion of the sand and beach is also captured. 

This image is showing a row of pastel beach huts along the sea front, this also represents the destination as beach huts are also commonly associated with seaside towns. This image is also showing how beach huts have developed along the years as they have moved from plain wood huts to brightly coloured ones, which is also representing how seaside towns have developed to attract more people to them and make them more likely to visit again, if they are presenting a pretty looking seafront.  I like this image as the different range of colours all complement each other nicely due to their pastel shade, this also creates a soft feel which may look more attractive to people who are visiting than brighter harsher tones. The camera settings for this image were an aperture F-stop of 5.6, the ISO was 100 and the shutter speed was 1/320. As the sun was behind the beach huts when the image was taken, a longer shutter speed is needed as more light needs to be exposed to the lens to make sure that the image has been lit properly. 



What I Am Going To Do Next
As part of my shoot, i took some images of the arcade and town at night whilst all of the lights were on, and i liked the final images that these produced as i liked how the lights stood out against the darkness. I would like to further explore the concept of light when involved with Journey, e.g. standing on a bridge with a long exposure time on the camera and capture the light movement of the cars as they travel down the road.