Shoot 9 Work Diary

For shoot 9, I decided to take a series of images around my local town, as I thought what better way of showing British culture than showing the landscape of where I live, which is a very normally, typically British town, the place in which one lives illustrates simmering about their upbringing and relation to culture. Overall I am fairly happy with the result of images, I am aware that this series is straying away from the very youth, music, subculture driven side of my project so far, despite this I think it fits well in my project and is successful in showing British culture. 

This image is of my local high street, two two off licences are visible one in blue nearest to the camera and the other one red, at the chip shop, a ladbrokes etc, the cars parked on the high street, lampposts, electrical pylons and a shop keeper coming outside looking at the camera. The image connotes a typical British high street, with all the essentials that reflects british culture, ladbrokes is traditional betting shop, kebab shop shows foreign culture anyhow it has merged into the British way of life and of course the off licence traditionally used to buy tobacco and alcohol, this shows quite a quintessential, normal array of shops you'd find in most British towns, in fact these sort of shops are quite outdated in newer towns popping up all over theUK. Overall, the image is meant to shows that we are intrinsically connected to our British traditions just in the fact we live in a certain location or go to certain shops.

My intentions for this image were to make it as bleak and atmospheric as possible from the moment I took it, then I edited it on photoshop increasing to contrast and darkness, this helps to make the tones more striking and contrasting against the rest of the landscape. I really like the reflection of the electrical pylon in the water and the blank grey whitewashed appearance of the sky against the dark browns of the scrub land, this makes the mood of the image very dark and intense. The image connotes the British landscape, the bad weather that we have in Britain, the typical grey sky that is in this picture, the quite dull, un-picturesque landscape, the canals which are everywhere near London, the electrical pylons which cover the land, it's meant to just give an honest, melancholy portrayal of Britain, which ingrains into the British culture. 

                                                                     Progression-

For shoot 10, I would like to take the thought behind the importance and significance that certain landscapes play in the culture and heritage of Britain. Also just take the very normal, mundane subjects in photography, to successfully demonstrate British culture.