Self Assignment

Nicholas Goodden

Nicholas Goodden is the photographer that I was influenced by. He is  an award-winning London-based urban photographer. He has a passion for capturing London's urban landscape, streets, people and architecture through still photography, cinemagraphs and time lapse photography. His photographs are from 2008 till 2015. The gallery " The Great Londoners" and "London Street Photography" is the one that took my attention! he normally takes photos at a close range or close-up to the people.
The things that caught my

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attention on his works to use into my work as an example, is his composition, B/W and colour, in his photos he don't worry putting it in angle, the background as well it is extremely out of focus. To emulate his work I have in mind, firstly set my camera to shoot B/W and for colour I will be shooting with a flat colour, it makes better for pros production. Wara and I decided to go to Chelsea because there's a posh area for street photography. to do this I use my camera (Canon 60D) with my telephoto lens 70-300mm with hood and a grip for vertical photos if needed. I used the lowest aperture that my lenses offer, F/ 4-5.6, and I use the ISO approximately 100-350 with 1'150 to 1'200 shutter speed. to make this images look good, I used Photoshop for pros production, I corrected the levels of the photo before turn it in B/W, then I adjust the contrast and brightness to give a real B/W photo from a analog camera. For the colour one I adjust the "Brightness/Contrast", the "Hue/Saturation", the sharpness of the image using "Smart Sharpen..." and I correct the colours in the "Selective Color..." tool. after I edited the photos I Saved as JPEG format.

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The meanings is behind everything even in the photos. It's not just go out there and start taking rounding photos, because that don't have any meaning, but to a professional photographer must have a meaning behind their photos.
The meaning for my photos that I photographed in Chelsea, it is to show how a posh area makes someone dress their self to walk in that area and in the way this people dress their self, it tell how much money they have. A posh area attract people that has lot of money and attract bussines people too.