For this exercise, photograph people engaged in a fun or social activity outdoors. For example, you could go to a seaside resort and photograph people having a good time. Or photograph people at an outdoor party or function. Try to capture the Martin Parr ‘feel’.
Use
your camera flash or a flash gun to balance the daylight. You need to take light readings from the
ambient light and then set the flash gun to produce a small amount of flash –
not enough to turn the scene into night – running the camera at a slower speed
than the flash would normally synch at.
Getting
the flash/ambient light balance right is the key to the technical side of the
whole look.
This
is the camera’s reaction under normal circumstances. A slower shutter speed than the recommended
flash setting may help a lot.
If
you’re having difficulty getting the Parr feel, or getting the daylight to
stay, the contact your tutor or ask around on the student forum. This will work very differently for a range
of cameras and you may need individual support and advice for this relative to
your personal camera equipment.
Produce
a set of eight colour images. Ensure that
the colour is bright and reflects the nature of Martin Parr’s work. How does this lighting effect change the
nature of your image? Make some notes in
your learning log.
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I went up to an OCA study day at the Science Museum on December 6th to see the exhibition put on by the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) called 'Drawn by Light'. This exhibition showed how photography, using examples of images kept in the RPS archives, had progressed from in the beginning complex metal plates to digital images of today.
Afterwards I walked back to the tube stations, along Exhibition Road, and made use of the crowds visiting the museums and the ice skating rink outside the Natural History Museum to expand my street photography experiences, trying to capture the 'Martin Parr effect.
Here are some of my images:
Here are some of my images:
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