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Currently studying with the OCA for a BA Hons Degree in Photography.

Exercise 21: Making Figures Anonymous & Exercise 22: Balancing Figure And Space


OCA – People and Place
 
Exercise 21: Making Figures Anonymous
 
For this exercise it required that you include a person or persons in a particular place, but make them unrecognisable and less prominent.
 
A Nikon D800 camera and a Nikon 24mm-70mm lens were used during this exercise.
 
Photograph 1 – Borough Market, London
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
This image was taken very early one morning on my arrival to London. The figure to the left of the image is faceless, unrecognisable. The figure does have a subsidiary role within the image, showing scale and provided life to this image of Borough Market before opening time.
 
Photograph 2 – Tate Modern, London
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
This is the main transient route through the Tate Modern, showing the lifts, stairs and escalators. The figures in the background provide a sense of scale, but are too far away to recognise.
 
I believe the two photographs are successful in providing anonymous figures within an image.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
OCA – People and Place
 
Exercise 22: Balancing Figure and Space
 
The aim of this exercise was to produce two images, using a general viewpoint and composition, varying balance of attention between the person and the setting they are in.
 
A Nikon D800 camera and a Nikon 24mm-70mm lens were used during this exercise.
 
 
Photograph 1
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
This image was taken in London on the South Bank and I could see the balance between the person standing in the lower left and the metal wall leading away through the image, to the entrance of the Hay’s Galleria and the heavy walls of the building.
 
Photograph 2
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The balance of the foreground person, background bin and the space to the right make this composition work.
 
I believe the two photographs provide the viewer with a balanced image.
 
 

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