Exercise - Making figures anonymous

Outline: Make between two and four photographs, using different techniques, to show people in places but making them unrecogniseable.

Warped Tour 2012

For my first image, I have chosen an image taken at Alexandra Palace for the Vans Warped Tour 2012. We get a good sense of scale with the building and the stage but the mixture of techniques in this one picture, including motion blur, small and many and facing away, the figures are all anonymous and unrecognisable.

Cardiff Devils Ice Hockey 2012

This second image taken during an ice hockey game again incorporates more than one technique. It shows facing away and also small and many to make the figures in the stands give life to the place but without stealing focus.

Sandy Beach, Porthcawl 2013

I'm not sure that this image works as well as the previous images. The beach is meant to be the main focus but although the figures are unrecogniseable, they are the main focus of the image so it does not seem that the beach is the priority.

Her Dark Embrace, Birmingham 2012

Just to add a gig photo into the mix, this is another example of making a figure anonymous but also highlights the difficulty of photographing drummers! Not so much an example about the place itself here but we get the jist of the 'gig' enviroment. The kit is the main 'place' so to speak however, it's drummer is anonymous as the kits obscures almost all of his body and a good portion of his face.

Conclusion: I wanted to include music based photos in this section purely as it's a good indication of this type of photography. There are always lots of people who are small in contrast to the buildings/stage/etc, and usually obscured by other people or motion blur, especially when it comes to the artists. So I'm glad I could get some of these shots in to show this. Also, it seems common on occasion to have at least one or more of these techniques in the image without paying too much attention to doing it on purpose.