I have labelled this blog post exercise attempt 1 because having re-read the exercise brief I don’t think I have been particularly successful in creating a sequence of composition. The idea was to record the way I approached and shot a subject from the moment when I caught sight of a possible photograph to the final best photograph make of it. I had arranged with Merville ju-jitsu club to allow me to shoot one of their training sessions. I figured this would be a excellent opportunity to shoot sequence photographs with different compositions. I soon came to realise that the action of jujitsu training was far too fast to capture the type of sequence necessary for the exercise. Although I could shoot a sequence of events of a throw or sparring bout, it happened so quickly that I could not very the composition.
I decided to use the time to work on different compositions during the class. The results of this can be seen below
If I was going to pick 4 images out of this that stand out as having any interesting composition at all I would chose the following:-
This exercise was harder than I first anticipated. I will revisit this exercise. My strategy will be to take a walk through Belfast and stumble upon some action to photograph a sequence of compositions.