Research : Darren Hall

DISCLAIMER: These images were all taken by Darren Hall.

None of the above images are my own.

Darren Hall is a street photographer from Huddersfeild who generally works in Straight-Up photography. He splits his time between London and New York working for i-D magazine which is about fashion, music and culture. At first glance these images may look quite boring, with a person stood in the centre of the frame, however, when you look at Hall's work you realise that a lot of thought has gone into his background and setting, and it always seems to go alongside what the person in the image is wearing. Hall always seems to photograph quite eccentric looking people which is really interesting to look at. I would like to have a go at this style of Straight-Up photography myself, I just need to pluck up the courage to ask people if I can photograph them!

Light Drawing : Revisited

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After doing our first shoot with light painting I was inspired to do another one and trying to encorporate different colours. I used the 'Flashlight for free' app on my phone which is just a blank screen of any block colour of your choice. The first few images I took on a high ISO setting and they are too light as you can see me in them. I was experimenting with the ISO making it lower and lower and eventually getting these great moody shots of colour, I especially like the one where you can just faintly see my silouhette within the colour beams.

Light trails

These shots were taken underneith Leeds train station and created using a slow shutter speed in dim lighting conditions capturing moving cars and street lights. I set my camera to a slow shutter speed, took a photograph and whilst it was taking either zoom out or twist my camera to get different effects and different directions of trailing light. I really like abstract images like these and I especially like the ones of the moving cars and how much energy they have in them.

Different angles of Architecture

These are all examples of how a slight angle change can completely alter an image and make it more abstract. The aim of this task was to shoot things at one angle, then tilt the camera to create another angle to see how different an image can look. For example, an image of a skyscraper on a slant may look more interesting than a straight up one because it draws your eye further into the picture. I enjoyed this task because it made you look at things that you wouldn't normally see. How often do you walk around looking up? We did in this task and I really enjoyed seeing things in a different perspective.