First shoot

Before going out to shoot, I wanted to have a vision in mind. I knew I wanted to focus on a theme of derelict/abandoned buildings. Having done some prior research I came across an article in the Daily Mail, the article focused on abandoned buildings in America. This was very relevant to the work I aimed to create. The photographs within the article show "crumbling schools, decaying churches, and rusting prisons that have been lost to time"


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2340806/Abandoned-America-Photographer-captures-haunting-images-rusting-steel-works-crumbling-schools-factories-great-superpower.html



With this research and my own intentions in mind, I went out and tried to capture my own set of images showing "Abandoned Birmingham". I thought carefully about my viewpoint and decided to photograph from a rooftop so my viewpoint would be looking down, this was done to emphasise how the building is destroyed and belittled to other structures out there. 

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I was pleased with the outcome of this shoot as I discovered that when editing, I was able to experiment with the photos I had taken. Using photoshop I was able to rotate, flip and crop the images to make them fit to my "abstract" theme. Next time I shoot I aim to concentrate more on the framing of my composition while capturing the photo instead of doing it in post production.