Typology Final

I have recently finished photographing several boat mooring bollards up and down the River Hull as part of a Typology project. I have managed to narrow these down to 9 final images to use which i thought looked the most interesting and different.

When looking at a lot of older Typology I noticed that a lot of it is in black and white due to the year it was taken. I decided to try mine in black and white and i think it makes it look like a traditional typology image and it shows the texture of the bollards well. Something i said when i first started this project was that i wanted to capture the colours and the textures which is one reason why i think this would work better in colour.





I have decided to do this project in colour as i think it definately shows the colours and the texture better than the black and white version. This are the final bollards I decided to include which were all shot on the River Hull. These images were then arranged in a grid and printed as a A2 image.

I also had a go at merging all the 9 images together to create a new image as this is something that is often done using these kinds of images.

I decided to then convert this to black and white as when the images were overlayed in Photoshop the colours became too vivid and looked fake. I am fairly pleased with this image but i haven't decided to do a print of this as i don't think it is good enough to be printed.

Hull Job Cut Protest

I found out that today there was going to be a protest in Hull city centre to do with the job cuts and strikes so i thought it'd be a perfect opportunity to develop my documentary photography. I really enjoyed it and there was such an atmosphere. Here is a couple of quick edits i've done from the protest.

'Specialist Studio Practise' - Final Images

For this assignment I decided to development on my previous fashion work as i received some very useful feedback from the last assignment. Here are the 6 final images i have chosen to use as finals.

Mappleton

Mappleton

I decided to take a trip to Mappleton as there was a shot that i had pictures in my mind from seeing other people's photos from here.

Unfortunately the shot i had pictured ended up being a lot harded to get than i thought it would be. The pictures of the rocks here don't really emphasise the size of them as they are huge when you see them in front of you. This made it very hard and dangerous to set up a tripod on them especially as they were very slippery.

This is one shot that i got from the shoot that i am very happy with.

Typology Photography

Typology Photography derives from the term, 'the study of types'. The term 'Typology' began in 1957 when Bernd and Hilla Becher gave the name to their style of photography. These two photographers often focused on industrial structures such as blast furnaces, water towers and coal mine heads.

Water Towers by Hilla Becher

When photographing their subjects they would make sure that each photograph was taken in the same way. This would include camera settings, lighting, time of day and positioning. One common characteristic that stood out in their work was that they would take the photographs on overcast days as this gave the subject a soft, diffused, even light with no strong shadows. The images were then commonly displayed in a grid as this made it easier to compare each photograph.

I have been given the task of creating my own Typology by studying a subject and photographing it in the same and consistant way. I will then be required to display them in a grid containing at least 9 photographs. As the rivers in Hull are a big part of the city's Maritime history which is something the city is famous for, i have decided to photograph Boat Mooring Bollards as they are a remaining part of the now redundant, Maritime history..

Boat Mooring Bollard by Me

This is an image i previously took around 3 years ago of a bollard down the River Hull in the Wincolmlee area of Hull. I think these will be an interesting subject as because the majority of these bollards are now unused they have been left to decay resulting in some interesting colours and textures.