For this brief we had to take a lucky dip out of a selection of words. This gave us a word I'm which we would then go out and photographs to portray that particular word - in my case, INDUSTRIAL.
GETTING STARTED
When i chose the word Industrial, I had an idea to photograph the Ineos plant at grangemouth - The only hurdle here is that you ant meant to take photographs of the plant for security reasons which is totally understandable. So i would need to get my thinking cap on.
I really struggled with coming up with ideas for this brief. After some discussion with peers i felt that a night time photograph would be appropriate as I feel the contrast between the lights and the dark sky would be really look good coinciding with the Industrial theme.
RESEARCH
When researching already existing Industrial photographs, I took to Pinterest. through this I found that industrial" on pinterest, this was all interior decor related things, I did find a few images that i really liked which i have added a button link to the board below. I then took to articles and had a look at some urban competition winners to see if they had any industrial looking images amongst them.
URBAN PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
This was the first competition I came across when starting to look into competiontions
I came across these two images that stood out to me in particular in relation to industrial photography. The image submitted by Gill Taylor really stood out because of the dark nights sky and the artificial, man made objects. The other photograph by Hany Mahmoud jumped out and me because of the pattern and symmetrical aspect of the photograph.
URBAN PHOTO FEST
Another competition I found was the Urban Photo Fest. 2016 theme was 'Thinking the Streets'. Some of the photos, I personally wouldn't classify them as industrial. Below I have given some examples of the photos that jumped out at me when considering the industrial-ness in the photographs.
I really love the all the straight on views of rough looking buildings. Ideally for my shoots I would have shot these types of shots, if I was in the position and had the time to be able to explore and experiment more also.
SHOOTING
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When shooting I was stuck in terms of what to do, as mentioned previously, so I arranged to go out with a friend one night as I can not drive, which is another inconvenience. We drove to South Queensferry and I seen an orange glow over the other side of the river forth on the north side so I knew from previous knowledge that you could drive underneath the new road bridge which is still under construction so there are some cool lights that I though would look quite interesting to photograph.
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The second photograph was again in South Queensferry under the new road bridge, but from a different angle and perspective. It was in the same area as the previous photograph. I took this because of the crane in the centre focus of the photograph, along with some scaffolding.
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The 3rd and final photograph I took was of the kelpies in falkirk. The Kelpies as such are not Industrial, technically speaking. But i thought if I took a photograph from a a totally different perspective that it could make people queery and wonder what it is.
Credits:
Created with images by ˙Cаvin 〄 - "Industrial"