Recently we took a trip to Dingles Fairground. Dingles is a vintage fairground in Devon. It has one of the largest collections of working vintage rides in the U.K. This trip was a great opportunity to practice and produce work for the images and dreams project. Below are the annotated contact sheets from the photo shoot.
Images © Sophie Whale
© Sophie Whale
© Sophie Whale
© Sophie Whale
© Sophie Whale
Here are some of my favourite images from the shoot, I have also evaluated them and explained how I edited them.
© Sophie Whale
This is on of my favourite images from the fairground shoot. I really like the composition and almost symmetrical appearance. I like that I have capture some motion blur of the rid at the sides while the rest of the image looks still and calm. It looks almost abandoned. To edit this image I started by cropping and straightening it slightly. I have increased the shadows to make the lower part of the image darker and blend the motion from the ride into the image, as I did not want it to distract from the main centre of the image. I have also upped the clarity to bring out the paintwork detail of the ride. Alongside this I have raised the highlights and saturation. Raising the highlights helped make the lights on the ride stand out and also brighten the top section of the photograph.
© Sophie Whale
© Sophie Whale
© Sophie Whale
To create this image I tried a new camera setting and technique. I used aperture priority at a wide aperture to allow for a slow shutter speed. Using a slow shutter speed creates long exposure images, Long exposure photography is a process used to capture movement in imagery. In this case I was capturing the light trails of the carousel. As this was just a quick edit to test the technique I have done very little to this in post- production. I have simply increased the highlights to make the lights appear brighter.
This shoot allowed me to try different camera techniques and explore other ideas for images and dreams. Because of the low light conditions it was almost impossible to photograph without using a tripod. Ideally when shooting anything below 1/60/s you need to use a tripod to prevent camera shake.
I used this shoot to help be experiment with saturation and colours. In my final images although I don't plan on doing long exposures or light trails I will be bringing out elements of colour and increasing clarity to add texture and depth.