Shoot Seven - Work Record

For this shoot, I decided to go back to using the plain mask, however, I wanted it to be worn outside of College in an urban environment, as I feel that would create more real and extreme reactiosn that in a an A level Photography classroom.

For the shoot, I hoped to capture a metaphorical representation of society's attitudes to mental disorders.
 
 This is probably my favourite image from my shoot. One of the thing I like it the narrow depth of field I achieved when taking this image, as it means the main focus of the image, which is the masked face, is in focus and the people in the background are not, which implies they don't are understand and are disconnected from the masked man, who is supposed to represent somebody with a mental disorder. Another thing I like about this image is the framing and composition. I used rule of thirds to take this image, putting my subject onto the right focus points of the grid, meaning he stands out from the background and is the first thing you notice. I took the image from a very close up perspective too, which I feel makes us connect with the subject more and the image feels much more intimate.

  
This, however, is an image that I would say was not very successful from my shoot. This uses a narrow depth of field like the previously shown image, however, in this image, the focus point is in the background rather than the foreground, meaning the masked man is out of focus. Although this could be seen as experimentation and is not objectively bad, I personally preferred the focus point to be on the masked man in this shoot, as he was the main thing that is being represented throughout the shoot. This image I also feel lacked in saturated colours, as even the colours that were supposed to be bright appear slightly muted. This could have been avoided by setting the white balance rather than having it set on auto.

For my final exam piece shoot, I hope to incorporate both the painted and plain masks in both the studio and on location while using long exposures and overlaying images together and manipulating layer blending in Photoshop.