Photography project practice

My photography practice 

As part of developing my photography final idea, I have taken photographs to support my creative intention and took the photograph in the style of a photographer I take inspiration from - Connor Franta. The hand represents the human aspect that I am using in my work with the contrast of human and nature. The use of shallow depth of field has created the bokeh effect, however my hand had not been fully in focus, it is not as sharp as it could be. From doing this, one issue I noticed technically was trying to focus / hold the camera with one hand with my hand in the frame. Getting the right shot therefore may take time.
I feel that the lighting aspect of the photograph came out successfully, from the golden highlights reflected onto the top of the building. This also plays with the human and nature concept, the idea of natural light- sunlight, breaking through compared to the the artificial fairy lights. This idea will be considered for final projects as part of creative intentions in a subtle manner.
Photograph taken also exploring the idea of natural light vs artificial light - the world through an object.

In this photograph, the same idea of natural vs human intentions are explored, but in a more indirect manner.

The common idea of small human subjects making the physical landscape look even bigger (example labelled size) is not applied here. Though the size can be interpreted, my photograph explores more the actual object, a light bulb, being a human light source as a subject contrasting the idea of the actual natural light source -the sun. This again explores my whole theme of human vs nature but in a more subtle and thought provoking way.

SIZE - Karl Shakur photography.

Further practice, human element:
As part of further developing my idea in the human vs physical aspect, I have taken photos using natural light with the object being the lensball and my hand interrupting. Viewing these over, I want to ensure that I have other human elements such as an eye, half a face, etc. The composition of the blue sky photo contrasting with the golden hour reflected photo is different and experimental to what I have been researching and thinking of so far, and reminds me to think of the rule of thirds along with breaking this rule to possibly create a sort of uncertainty or uncomfortableness. The editorial image of my hand was taken at the same time being sunrise, again giving a golden glow. The picture can be categorised under editorial due to the RGB glitch effect. This can be something I experiment with, however the creative intention behind it may not link to my theme of human vs nature. The shadow of the hand is something I like visually about the photo, and will experiment with in my final photos - possibly allowing the shadow to reflect onto a leaf or natural aspect.


List of techniques I would like to use within my final photos:

• Allowing the shadow of a hand to reflect onto a leaf or natural aspect
• Composition - hand near a building or near a tree etc.
• Golden hour, sunset time. Golden highlights reflected onto buildings 
• Artificial light vs sunlight 
• Rule of thirds