This one was the first one I took, and it turned out to be my favourite from this attempt.
I did experiment with getting cars on the other side of the road, but I feel it works better when the car is on the same side of the road as the flowers.
I also decided to get a few more shots of the flowers by themselves, from different angles and perspectives. This one is ok, however I don't like the blue bin in the background - but there was a van pulled up next to the lamppost and this was the best angle I could get.
Unfortunately the sky was quite overcast when I went up there, I did use a polarizing filter to experiment with changing the colour/contrast of the sky. Whilst it is quite grey and cloudy, I feel this could also add a certain depth to the image, as it gives a downcast kind of feel to it.
Again I experimented with portrait/landscape views to see what works best.
My next idea and one I was really keen on doing was to photograph a child's doll in the road. A lot of the inspiration for this is from the Think! campaign television advert for the 'It's 30 For A Reason' message. The advert can be seen here:It was my intention to go up to a nearby school and photograph the doll - representing a child - laying run over in the road.
Ideally I wanted to get the school sign in the picture along with the doll, but this didn't work out as I wanted as to get both in to the frame I had to move quite far away, and really I wanted the doll to be the main focus of the image.
So I then tried taking photos of the doll closer up. I used a large aperture to get a small depth of field as I wanted the viewer to immediately be drawn to the doll. I think this image works quite well and I am pleased at how it turned out.
I still wanted to get some sort of school imagery into the photograph, and as I was outside the school I saw that there was yellow wording in the road, so I decided to place the doll onto the word 'School'. I felt that perhaps the words weren't quite legible enough however.
Rather than trying to get the words clear I decided to go down to the doll's viewpoint and get in really close to her, but keep the words in the background as more of a suggestion than a main focus point. Again I aim pleased with how the image turned out.
As I was lying in the road taking pictures of the doll, in a few shots I accidentally caught edges of cars creeping into view. When I reviewed the images I thought they actually worked quite well, so I decided to place the doll in the road and have my car in the background, as if it had just knocked the 'child' down and was driving off - almost like a hit and run type scenario. I feel this image works well and represents what I was trying to convey.
Moving on with the car and doll idea I thought about photographing the doll under the car's tyres. This is more of a graphic representation of my idea. As it was quite dark lying down by the car I used my flash and actually quite like the effect that it gave my images. However I don't think these work quite as well as my previous images.
Keeping going with my signs theme, I shot the School sign nearby where I was shooting. As it was starting to get dark I again used my flash and I really like how the image turned out.
My last idea to go out and shoot was the speed camera signs along the South Coast Road that flash as you drive past when going too fast. I went when it was fully dark as I really wanted to bring out the lights of the sign. I had to experiment with timing and shutter speed as I wanted as little ambient light as possible. I also used my tripod as I was using shutter speeds of under 1 second and it wouldn't have worked hand held!
I had to get my timings just right to make sure I either captured the '30' or the speed camera symbol, and sometimes I ended up capturing both at the same time, which wasn't what I was going for but it did end up making an interesting image!
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