– INTERACTION WITH STRANGERS –
The main theme of this project brief is to record our interaction with strangers, through different ways of interaction we are supposed to find out what are the stories they have in their world. A big thank you to Hannah for bringing me into this world, I guess I will not have the chance to see what is the world of indoor cricket like if Hannah doesn’t bring me in. This is not the first I went out to the public and captured different types of people, remembering myself in China photographing people on the street, most of them felt me being offensive and uncomfortable to be photographed. Although in this project, it’s totally in a different situation. I have met 4 teams in total, most of them are from Swinburn. I was quite surprised when I took my camera out, around 90 percent of them feel happy to be on the camera, there was only a few of them who didn’t want to be shoot. Among these people who don’t want to be photographed, I remembered one of them was being very alert whenever I moved my camera when the object you want to capture is being very different it’s actually quite challenging for the photographer. The players were either very happy to be in front of the camera or being very alert when you hold up your camera, what I did
Among these people who don’t want to be photographed, I remembered one of them was being very alert whenever I moved my camera when the object you want to capture is being very different it’s actually quite challenging for the photographer. The players were either very happy to be in front of the camera or being alert to the camera.I understand them and I don’t want to have any negative effect on their condition, so what I did to relief their stress and concerns were to hold up my camera and walk across them to show they are not my object so they don’t have to be aware.
– SEQUENCING THE PHOTOGRAPHS –
First of all, as I have mentioned in the previous blog posts, I have divided the series into three parts: Before the game start; during the game (Half-time) and after the game. I thought 14 photos would be a lot in the beginning, but after I have edited all my photos I felt they are all good and I want to use all of them!
- The first and the Last photograph, these two photographs were arranged because the looked similar but still different, if we take a closer look at these photographs, we can see they are the same team. I can see they were the team who really held up to one another and they actually won at last, so I used this team’s photo to start off and finish the series.
- I included quite a lot of close up shots in order to emphasise the facial expressions, and what kind of behaviour will they have followed by the progression of the game.
- I have inserted the judge’s photographed in the middle which I want to tell who important the judge is within the game, we can sort of tell the power they own just by looking at the chair they sit and the distance they are lifting up from the court.
– REFLECTION –
- If I am going to shoot this again, I would like to try during day time. I usually don’t switch on the flashlight because I feel like the flashlight may alter the actual colour tone, night time shooting always needs more lighting than day time, especially indoor and the objects are moving very fast. Another thing I really want to try is to leave the shooting until the game has finished, I want to have them all sitting down on the court and they can do whatever they like. I really want to capture the difference of facial expressions between win team and loss team, how they might react with each other.
- Collaborative, it’s another big concept in this project. It’s a pity that Hannah doesn’t know any of the players, so I didn’t focus on a particular person and get some of his portaits, but I felt quite satisfy with these two shootings.