Work Record - Personal Shoot 8

Evolution of Technology (new and old) [part 2]

Plans for the shoot:

When I first shot this particular topic last thursday, I didn't get a chance to finish off all of the ideas I had planned to do due to experimenting with the first half of my ideas. I focussed mostly on the cameras last week and created an animation for this idea, but I still have the evolution of music to look at, where I have brought in vinyls, CDs, tapes, ipods and mp3 players.
I am going to start off with this shoot a lot more basic than the first one; I want to make sure I photograph each of the objects individually before I get into anything complicated. I am going to use this time to photograph 'an image within an image' as I want to place items such as the CD 'inside' the vinyl to show the change between old and new music.

Shoot Evaluation:
I didn't quite get all of the time I needed in the studio today due to other photographers over-running in the studio, but I didn't mind as all of my shots were quite basic. I will use my next lesson on monday to edit the shots I did produce and create some final pieces.

 Although quite basic, I really like this edit as it subtly shows the contrast between new and traditional media. Even though you can't fully see the first vinyl record in the line, you know what it is because of the recurring theme of music in the shot, and that's what I like about it. I also feel it is important to put them in a line as it created a nice pattern for the viewer to follow from vinyl to CD.

I really liked the idea of this image-within-an-image piece because I knew I could easily show the comparison between modern and slightly older photography methods. However, what I didn't realise is was that the digital camera was upside down when I photographed it, so actually in this image the shutter button is on the bottom, and the photo didn't look the same when I flipped it over because of the lighting, so in that sense, I am quite disappointed with the result.