Saiyna Bashir is a freelance, Pakistani photojournalist who works on international projects. She is a freelancer for many big organisations such as The New York Times, National Geographic, The Telegraph and Unicef (Consultant Photographer). She also creates videos which has interviews. She takes pictures of events and interesting places. In the pictures she shows what happens at the events and also back stories of unique places.
This is a picture that professional photographer Saiyna took. This was taken from one of her collections called 'Ferguson Riots'. This image shows what went on behind the scenes of the riots. It shows the community come together and fight for safety and rights. It shows local authorities lose control of Ferguson. It shows the other side of the human race, the darker side. It shows the power communities have when they all come together. This sort of events can bring people together and fight against evil. I like this picture because it reveals the truth, it shows fight and how events can bring people together. It shows life. In this image, I can see a community come together and riots against the police, vandalising police cars in order to get revenge and justice to heal the harm the local police force has done to the community.
Simon Di Principe is a freelance portrait photographer. He takes pictures of sunday league football in East London. He is interested in the portraits of different players, how football brings people together and the different backgrounds people come from. I am interested in football, and refereed 86 games at different pitches like Charlton, Ex Serviceman's club in Dartford. I like that he has photographed the environment of the football pitch, he looks at the players, the clothes, the surroundings as well. I thought that it would be easy to capture these surroundings because I am in a football environement working there a lot .
I chose this photo series to evaluate as I liked the idea of busy vs empty, rich vs poor, clean vs dirty, and showing them both in photography displayed together. The first photo shows a dirty pitchwhich looks like it has been used quite a lot with a rusty goal. It is quite dark and looks like a gloomy day. The sky and the background is grey, nobody is in the picture. The mood is quiet.
In this picture I can see 6 players in red and black defending their goal. I can see 4 players in white attacking the red teams goal. There is no holes in the goal nets, which is amazing considering its Sunday league football, and the goal posts are covered in tape. The grass is actually good although you cannot see the outlines of the pitch which is not good. The penalty spot is scuffed up which will make the penalty taker miss the goal. Overall, this picture does represent a typical Sunday adult league.
Ideas
I want to create videos/documentaries and take pictures about life, history of countries, cities, towns and villages, events, communities, sports. The ideas of documentaries, history, life and communities are inspired by Saiyna Bashir. The sport ideas are inspires by Simon Di Principe.
Photoshoot 1 - Life
Experiment 1 - Life Video
For my first experiment I decided to make a video using pictures I took from photoshoot 1
The images above show what I am doing to create the video. I am selecting the pictures that I want to use and upload them onto Imovie. I then put the pictures into the movie section and add effects to improve the transition from picture to picture. Finally, I re-arrange the pictures to make the video run smooth.
I am going to refine this video by adding a voice over and maybe music.
Photoshoot 2 - Bath City
Photoshoot 3 - Football
Making Days Plan
Day 1 Plan What I am going to try and achieve:
Do two different voice overs to refine the Life video I made. It will most likely be one of my final pieces. It will probably take a a couple of hours to get the voice over done and perfected.
Add music to the best voice over video to refine even further
Do evaluation of the refined video
Do experiment 2 - Mixture of black & white and colour in the picture
Do evaluation for experiment 2
Equipment I will need:
Computer for video software (imovie)
Printer
Glue
Scissors/scalpel
Day 2 Plan What I am going to try and achieve:
Refine experiment 2 - Black and white/colour idea but instead of doing stripes, I do random shapes
Evaluation for experiment 2 refined
Do experiment 3 - Collage - football and also bath city
Refine experiment 3 - add black and white pics to it