Shoot 4 Work Diary

In this shoot I took my camera up to London, with the intention of photographing my night before a gig, socialising, smoking, drinking before going into the concert, on the streets of London. All the subjects in my images, are of people that I met that night, everyone is very sociable and eager to meet and talk to new people. 

In this shot, and for the whole series I used flash, because of how dark it was, this really helps to bring out the portraits. In this image someone I met is smoking, smoking is a big part of british culture across all ages, this image challenges social pre-conception and values. Overall the shot shows the spirit of youth, being a British teenager, drinking and smoking publicly, getting in the live atmosphere of going to watch a gig. I never gave the subject orders about how to look at the camera, he was having a smoke so I decided to take some pictures, I like the way he's looking into the camera, and the way he's been caught in motion, about to have another puff on his cigarette. The exposure on the image looks good and not too heavy, the flash gives the right amount of light on the shot, his glasses reflect some of the light from the lens on the camera, this gibes a cool technique.

This shot encompasses the party spirit of pre drinking, meeting people who are all into the same music as you, which is a huge part of British culture, it's a good feeling to be connected to everyone in mutual interests, I feel like this is shown in the actual image. The way in which they are clearly in conversation with others out of the short, and the subject in the beige coat is punching her hand into the air. I like how natural the image seems, as I never asked for the subjects to act in this way, and o a very realistic, authentic image is the result of this. I think the series reflects a good set of portraits all showing different parts of British culture such as, alcohol, music, youth, partying and smoking. 

Progression-

In the future, I will definitely use portraiture within future shoots as I feel this has been a really successful series of images, so this is definitely like develop and pursue more shoots like this, in whatever circumstance, not only out drinking etc but within other types of British culture.