Shoot Twelve- Graffiti Work In Progress- Work Diary

This is the final shoot I gained in Leake street which displays two subjects in the creation of graffiti. I think this is a really interesting shoot because this shows how I have used documentary photography as I asked two subjects whether I was able to take their images but other than that I done nothing to their behaviour. The subjects and I were talking and they said how they hadn't been there long but graffiti work which they were planning can take hours and also that they get so many different people taking photos of them so they said how it was a very common thing. I thought it was important to talk to these subjects so it wouldn't be a tense in their actions and it wouldn't be weird, there was a relaxed atmosphere after I spoke to them.

My favourite image from this shoot...

Due to the symbolic meaning behind this image, I think this is the strongest image which I took. As spoken about on my straight images, I think the playing card on the lamppost can be very symbolic on the youth representation. For example, on the forehead on the cat there is upside down cross which implies the devil. Furthermore, the use of it being a made up Ace Of Spades, it is symbolic because it suggests death. The use of narrow depth of field is also really interesting because it implies to the audience that they are implying this card symbolises youth.

My least favourite image from this shoot...

In terms of capturing the subjects doing to the graffiti, I find this to be my weakest image because they are lost with the other passers by, as I am far away, the audience aren't focusing on these subjects. Therefore I believe this is my weakest image in this shoot because the whole idea was to show those doing the graffiti and I think this image works more with the graffiti mess shoot rather than this one.

Overall...
As a whole whilst looking at the stereotypes of youth, I think this shoot has been really successful because I have been able to capture the activity of graffiti which is complied with the youth stereotype. However, I didn't actually capture many images of this subjects I think to have improved this shoot, it would have been better to have both more subjects and more images at different angles, it is because I went here on New Years which meant not many people were out as it was quite early and meant I wasn't able to capture different people.