This is a follow up from a recent post advising that I was going to be going to a fair in order to take some really cool pictures and also get some sound.
If someone asked me what events I look forward to in the year one of the top spots would be filled by the Banbury fair and it always has been and will be. As a child I was only allowed to go one night and we were only allowed on a certain number of rides with the agreement that our dad would come too, which he hated doing! We were only allowed one treat and then it was over, two weeks of waiting for this brilliant event and in one night it was gone. Last years I decided that I should saver the event and get some sound and possibly some pictures. This did not happen due to many reasons, so this years I thought ahead and asked some other student if this would be something they would like to do with me as its not every day that an event come to you instead you usually have to travel. So as this year I broke all traditions and went not once but three times to the fair over three nights, I did not go on any rides due to health reasons but loved every minute of it.
One of my proudest moments was being able to make the equipment I brought with me work for me. On the first day I took round a basic camera to try and get an idea of what kind of images and sound I wanted. I took the opportunity to study that fair in the light and at night. By the second night I knew exactly what kind of images and sound I wanted. On the second night I took a Merance round with me to capture sound both background and specific Vox Pops. On the third night I took my Cannon D450 out with me and a tripod and got some brillaint images that were using 6″ second and F16 I think, this created brilliant images really getting the feel of the lights and action motion of the fair. I also took images without a tripod to try and particuarly capture another affect of the fair, Dizzy drunken haze.
I have not uploaded them onto the computer yet but I am working on that shortly. What I can do and what I’d want to do are to very different matters. After visiting the Victoria and Albert museam over the summer and seeing there exhibit Fashion VS Science I feel that the way you exhibit you work needs as much consideration as the work itself as this can change the meaning and intended affect of the work.
This is simlar to the affect I have bene working on
My goal in all my work is to put across my feelings about the subject and tell my story as not many people get the opportunity to talk to the world about who they are.
