SHOOT 5

For my fifth shoot I went away from the idea of using toys and used a larger subject. This shoot took place in Lisbon, Portugal due to myself being able to go up the Santa Just a lift in the city centre which enabled me to take photos high above the city and the people walking around which is a good way to take scale focused photos. For this shoot I used a Nikon d3200 with a 18 - 55mm lens. I had the cameras focus settings on manual so that I could achieve a better focus on the surroundings below me. In addition to, the wired fence in the way meant I needed to focus on the city and not the wired fence. 

This shoot went really well and I'm really happy with the images as it perfectly links with the subject of scale. My favourite images from this shoot are images 4, 5 and 11. This is because of the angle of the shots which is at a very high angle due to the height I took the shots from and the fact I was facing the camera at a near vertical angle. This enabled me to  fit in the street down the middle of the picture with the large buildings either side. This makes the people walking down the street seem a lot smaller due to the comparison between them and the buildings.  However, images 1 and 2 are probably my least favourite and don't reflect the subject of scale very well. This is because of how zoomed out the shots are which makes everything look near the same size and the wired fence in front of the city just overall looks poor and brings no meaning to the image. 

Overall, I'm really pleased with this shoot and is probably my favourite for this unit so far. The main factors that have made this shoot good is the composition in the images with the orange tiled buildings with the white painted walls which have a composition with the dark shaded street. Also, the angles of the shots because of the extremely high angle they were taken at to make the sense of scale greater. My next shoots are of a similar idea by comparing buildings and people.