Christ Church Union Grove





Here is the old picture of Christ Church Union Grove in Wandsworth Road. I found this image online (http://www.churchpostcardviews.co.uk/LondonSW/pages/Wandsworth%20-%20Christ%20Church%20Union%20Grove%20LSW032.htm) where the website is using the image as sample of the postcard they're selling online. It's in black and white and the image orientation is horizontal. The position of the photographer who took this image seemed to be in the middle of the road and the camera was angled slightly to the left of the road where part of the park on the left hand side and the houses behind the church were visible.

When I look the Old images of church I  had to try to be creative and copy the image but when I went to the location I realised that is not easy. I took a print of the original image with me to make sure i got the important landmark in the frame to match. I had to move to the right and left to try to imitate the original. I had to make sure I used a similar shutter speed to the original as best as I could.

Planning:
I plan to locate where the church is located by using map. I will also work out which is the best spot to take the image. I will use digital camera instead of SLR camera for black and white films and use the same orientation as the original picture. I will decide on the aperture setting depending on the weather.

Below are the images I produced to emulate the image in the postcard above. I used F 1/125 shutter speed for these images since it was a cloudy day. The angle of my pictures were not perfect though, as I was looking at a wrong direction or spot when I took the pictures. I should have angled the camera slightly to the left of the subject.

This is my first attempt to emulate the original photo, but I was not really pleased with the outcome because the angle was not correct.

This shot is the best emulation of the original work. It's a bit dark though



This is not so bad, as the lighting is balanced.



 

Scavenger Hunt Photography

 

 

This image was photographed  in the 80's. It was in black and white. The building shown is a pub called" Queen of Denmark" at the corner of Lupus Street and Aylesford Street in London.

The pictures below is my replication  of the image above:

 

I took these pictures at the same angle as the original image. I used a digital camera to shoot the image and the outcome was in colour unlike the original image which was in black and white. I could have used Photoshop to change the colour to black and white, but I wanted to see if it would make a lot of difference seeing the picture in colour. There wasn't much difference though in my opinion. The orientation of the camera was horizontal and the shutter speed was F 1/125.

It was cloudy on the day I took these picture, so I moved around to get the right amount of light into the camera. The pub is now called 'The Gallery'. In the original photo, there are no tables outside the pub unlike the images I took. There are also hanging plants outside the pub and more street lighting

Food Market

See food blogger, (Maltby Street Market@ clerkenwellboyce1)  pictures through links below


https://instagram.com/p/17-f3JP6gC/?taken-by=clerkenwellboyec1

The food has vibrant colours. It was bright green and yellow with brown little squares.
The pan is a circle: the pan is similar to the little china plates.


https://instagram.com/p/17pI3Jv6iU/?taken-by=clerkenwellboyec1

The food was colourful.  It was very bright brown and there has little red little circles of beetroot.
This photo had shapes like the circle from the dull grey plate.


https://instagram.com/p/2G0Phzv6t8/?taken-by=clerkenwellboyec1

This photo has very bright colour with different layers and the shape has good curved  and long cup.


https://instagram.com/p/157W4kP6o6/?taken-by=clerkenwellboyec1

This photo had good use of colour (pink) with leaves and this has square size so it  was good composition because the main image is in the middle of the frame.


https://instagram.com/p/1uqabaP6t4/?taken-by=clerkenwellboyec1

This photograph was good colour brown with yellow curved like fruit with white  plate and is very interesting food called Chocolate pear tart.

When I did research on food bloggers, I had to look how they used colour and pattern. The day I went to the market I chose similar colours and patterns to what I had seen in the blogs. The food,  colours, composition and patterns used in the pictures help them to appeal to people and help sell their food.

Planning:
I need to find the right food when I take pictures that would best emulate the work of the food blogger above. They need to be colourful and bright as well.

Borough Market Experience

I had a wonderful time visiting Borough Market. It was something I never experienced before. The market looked like an old historical place, not like the modern market you usually see nowadays. The place was massive and looked like a train station from centuries ago. The roof was curved like the one you see in football stadium. There was about probably over a hundred stalls in the market selling different types of food, drinks, flowers, etc. Customers were allowed to taste the sellers’ products before buying them. Loads of people were in the market the day I was there, looking around, buying stuff, taking pictures, etc. The place looked amazing, as it was very colourful from the types of goods such as flowers, vegetables, cooked foods, fruits, meat, etc. People who visited the market seemed excited as I was, seeing the variety of foods on offer.  I went to a stall selling burger and tasted a piece of their cooked meat for the burger. Oh my word, I was in heaven! The taste exploded in my mouth!

 I took photographs of shell fish, wine, raw meat, flowers, vegetables, fruits, spices, cheese, sushi, cakes, pies, cooked foods, sausages, delicacies, assorted juice and eggs. I had a lot of fun taking pictures in the market as I tried to think about the composition of the pictures I wanted to create. Some of the pictures I took were not bad, but I was unhappy with some of the pictures that were underexposed because of the wrong aperture setting I used. It wasn’t easy to take pictures in this setting as it was crowded and difficult to find the right angle for the shots.

See below some of  the pictures I've taken: I used a digital camera at F 1/125 shutter speed, horizontal orientation and natural light for these pictures.

Picture of delicacies used as savoury

 
Colourful fruits.

This is my favourite shot. The picture of Paella makes me hungry. It looks appetizing because of the combination of colours.

 Smoked and processed meat.

Different types of olives. Very interesting and colourful.