In this shoot, I hope to capture how people react to something unusual in an environment, which will act as a metaphorical representation of how people react to mental disorders in society.
This is my favourite image from my shoot. I feel that this image captures the mood I wanted to create with my shoot, which a mixture of comedic and dark. I like the way this image is composed; my subject is leaning into the shot and looking at the camera, which creates a kind of fourth wall break in that the person in the photograph is aware they are being photographed. Something else that I feel was effective was the way the people in the background are not paying attention; this implies that my subject in the mask, who represents somebody that has a mental disorder, wants to be noticed, as the people around him are not noticing his mental issues. Finally, I like the use of depth of field; I shot on f5.6, meaning there was a very narrow depth of field in the image, which draws your attention to the man in the mask and not to the people in the background.
However, this is an image from my shoot that I feel wasn't very effective. Firstly, I think that the image wasn't very well framed; There is far too much background in the image and it was taken from too far away from my subject. Also, there was somebody else on the right side that has their face cut mostly out of frame. I would have had them fully in frame but only having a small part of their face in the frame looks like they were not supposed to be there. Additionally, I feel that this image, while exposed well, is too dull and contains too many muted colours, which was due to using an automatic white balance rather than setting it manually for the light I was shooting in.
For my next shoot, I would like to keep to this subject matter, however, I would like to remove other people apart from my subject and shoot in a more natural location rather than a man made one.
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