YEAR 1 CORE Assignment : Task 6 : Shoot 1 : Rehearsal : Machinal

All of these images are my own.

This is my favourite image from the photoshoot. I love how the actress is looking right into the camera even though she was in character and mid way through the performance at the time. 

I like how this image captures a big part of rehearsals. It shows the intensity of the young mans face in the foreground of the image, with other people dancing and performing in the mid-ground, and in the far background the director watching over the performance.

Here I have applied a vignette to the previous image to highlight the three sets of feet of the performers. 

I like this shot of someones arm during the performance. When I think of rehearsal photographs and documentary performance photography, I wouldn't have thought of anything like this but I really like it. In future photoshoots I would like to take more abstract photographs like this one.

I love the intensity in this shot, I just wish that I had framed it better and got the whole of the young mans body in as I have cropped out some of his arm by accident. 

I really like this image because the movement has been captured from the people circling around the girl in the chair, yet the focus is still on the girl in the chair who is very crisp and seems to be glowing.

Rosie the duck

A couple of months ago our garden played host to two new visitors - a male and female duck. I named them Rosie and Jim after the children's TV programme I used to watch when I was younger about the two rag dolls who travelled on a canal boat. About a month later, we noticed Rosie seemed to have been left on her own, and she kept hiding behind our pond. We thought this was her way of hoping Jim would be able to come back and find her there. After our dog was getting very anxious about the creature hiding behind the pond, we decided to take a look to see if she was OK. We then discovered that she had built a nest behind there, which  had a load of eggs in it. We were so excited to think that we could have little ducklings swimming around on our pond. 

Then, after patiently waiting, and hoping her eggs were healthy, around 28 days after we discovered the nest, she had her ducklings. There are 11 of them and they love swimming on our pond and toddling around our garden. They are so gorgeous I just couldn't miss the chance to photograph them, as I'm not sure how long they will still stay in our garden. As an animal lover I love going out to see them every day and feeding them a special crumb mix for ducklings which we bought for them.

Here are a few of the images that I took of them.