Evaluation

For this project we had to create a book, for this we got to choose what we based the book around so I decided to base mine around football.

The plan for creating this book was to use a mixture of old football photos that had never been used for a project before and new images that I would take during the project. The plans were to get the old images chosen straight away I wanted to make sure i didn't have loads of older images, I wanted some but enough to give me room to go out and about and take plenty of new images.

When it came to getting the new photos I did three separate photo shoots to get these images. The first I went down to some rugby pitches on the Washlands and got Andy to do some poses with the ball but I really didn't know what I could do so I decided that we would come back down in a couple of days time to allow me to do some research into artistic football photography so that I could get some ideas for the second shoot.

The second shoot went a lot better as I had done some research the same day and the previous day I knew what I was going to do on the shoot. When I went back with Andy to the pitches I got him to do a variety of different poses that I had found through my research and after looking over these images when the shoot was done I was really proud of who they had come out. But I still thought it would be best to go down to a proper football pitch and do a third shoot just to be on the safe side.

The third shoot we went down to Shobnall where we could get access to a proper football pitch so I could get some pretty decent shots. These I got him to do several poses with the football as a goalkeeper I gave him a pair of gloves to use along with this I also took photos of equipment as well this was easily the best shoot and provided me the most images.

Overall, I have to say that the shoots went really well from the different times I went down to get them done. The writing aspect was the harder as I struggling what to write about my images and all other aspects but I managed to get it all done and with plenty of time spare which is a great relief.

Book email

This is the email confirming the purchase of the book over Photo Box.

Development of ideas

The development of my ideas is quite broad, I started with very few ideas as the plan was to go down to a pitch and just model to pose with the ball. After this original shoot didn't quite go to plan I went back down with the model I knew exactly what to do when posing with the ball, as I didn't first time out so this gave me plenty of pretty decent photos.

The third photo shoot I went down to Shobnall to get some more photos to try and make sure I had plenty to choose from when it came to making the book. This shoot was easily the best we had an entire football pitch to use and I had plenty of equipment to take photos of as well. I started of by getting Andy posing with the ball like he is in this shot, we tried plenty of different poses. In these I gave him a pair of goalkeeper gloves to use as I got him to do a variety of different goalkeeper poses and this was some of the best of him modelling we had so they were going to be use in the book as they felt really good and looked really strong.

 With this image I wanted to get individual shots of the equipment which I began doing here. I tried to use all of the equipment individually in shot like I have done here with the shin pads, I tried this with many different equipment parts that I had in my opinion this was the best of the individual shots. I feel to make it look a little bit more realistic I probably should have just thrown them on and taken a shot of that as that is what the footballers would probably do with their shin pads.

This was an idea I had to put all the equipment, ball and our bags onto the bench as it shows what lower league players would do when the ground doesn't have changing rooms they would simply throw there stuff onto the bench and just carry on with the game. To keep up the realism of lower league matches most of the stuff was just thrown into position though there was leak at the top so some stuff had to be moved. When added phones into the shot as players would throw them on as well.

Evaluation of my images

My first photo shoot during this project didn't really go well as I didn't really know what I was doing I did get some decent photos but I thought it was best to re-group after I got some new ideas.

These images really weren't the best and I feel I probably should have done a lot better of course it would have helped if I had some ideas when I went out taking these photos but nonetheless I got some pretty decent images which I used in my book.





My second photo shoot went a little better as I had a few ideas what I was going to do, this shoot was easily much better, but I thought it was best to do a third shoot to improve my images and to get more.

These shoot was much better as I had more ideas of what I could do as I looked at different artistic football images. In this shoot I got a fair few images that could be used for the book, but I decided just to be on the safe side I would do a third shoot this time at Shobnall, so it was a different location so I could have even more images to choose from when it came to picking my final images for the book.






The third photo shoot was a lot better than the previous two. This gave me several brilliant images a lot of them I used in my book. There were a couple of bad images that couldn't be used due to them not being very good at all or being under or overexposed. But despite this I am thrilling with how it all came out.

This shoot provided me so many strong images that I am really proud of, this one for certain was one of the best this image I used as my front cover. The shoot provided me with a lot of images that I used for my book and I am really proud of this shoot.

Published books

When researching which site to use for my book I looked at two different sites, Blurb which I found straight away and Photo Box, one that had been recommended by family.

When looking the Blurb I found it an okay website to use but limits you to what you can do whereas Photo Box was a easy site to use and their was no major complications that I had when making the book.

I would easily use Photo Box again and definitely ahead of Blurb.

Jurgen Vantomme

Jurgen Vantomme is a photographer who is known for incorporating unconventional items into his sports photography.

 This image I quite like as it incorporates the power plant in the background, with the football in the foreground. It truly shows what sort of conditions small clubs play in. I think the main reason I like it is because it incorporates both the football and the power plant making it truly unconventional.

This image incorporates and abandoned train into the background of a player trying to take a corner kick. This image I feel shows even more than the top image what conditions some clubs play in. It could be considered quite a busy and distracting photo but I like it because it focuses on the train, but you can still clearly see the player and fully know what he is doing.

This image shows what seems to be a ski slope in the background of the image. This image is probably the best of the three as like the others it shows the conditions of the ground where they play but it also incorporates some of the action into the shot as well.

Joanna Ginger

Joanna Ginger is a British photographer who is best known for her football photography most of her work is shot at non-league teams instead of the bigger teams which most football photographers aspire to.

This image shows a player in white trying to dribble past the player in blue who is trying to slide tackle the ball away from him. Looking at this photo it does look like he missed the tackle, though I think this is a pretty decent image but to improve it I would try and get an image where the player is actually tackling the other where they make proper contact. Other than that I do like the image.

This image shows the player in yellow trying to hold off a challenge from the player in red. This image I do like a lot because it shows the concentration on the face of the players in trying to get the ball and in trying to get away from the tackler. Like the image above I would try and get the image when the player in red has actually made the challenge not just before. But I really do like this image, more than the image above.

This images shows a player running towards goal. This image I feel is the worst of the three as it is too busy as it shows multiple players which are distracting because they aren't blurred out and they are wearing bright colours. To improve this image I would focus on the player dribbling the ball and not the other players. I would zoom in on this player to get the shot, or even see what he is about to do as he is on the edge of the box and you could get a much better shot when he gets in the box.