Inspired by the work of Chris Dorley Brown. I decided to create a similar set of images. I like how what he photographed was real life, however everything happened at different times. By shooting from the same position everything is static, apart from the people and cars.
I like how you are able to photograph each person at a specific space within the frame, capturing something unique and different in each person.
Chris Brown's photos are very well composed and lit. There is this sort of 'unreal' quality to them, they do look real however they can also look too real. Almost staged, but not to the extent of Crewdson's work. In essence these are all real people in a real time, just merged together in post production.
In reflection to his work, these are the 3 images I created. I started by just overlaying each person as they were in photoshop. I later started to edit their positions slightly to create a stronger image.
This first image is made up of 4 photos. As seen below:
By Selecting each person in their original space, everyone the photo hasn't been manipulated apart from the fact I've layered 4 images together in Photoshop.
I quite like how this photo has turned out. Both women are walking towards the car, the left has almost stopped whilst the car moves. Because both people look towards the car, I decided to bring the wall forward into the left of the frame. This add's the CCTV camera also looking towards the car, this with the intrusive and prison-like building adds this element of being watched.
When shooting this location, I also took a photo of a runner who is in the ver forefront of the image. As he was so close he was much more out o focus however this does add some more depth to the image, as it is currently quite flat with no real foreground separation.
I feel this photo could work well if I hadn't chosen to focus on the car and CCTV camera. This would make it much more like the previous two photos.
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