Photography: Chesterfield

Today's assignment was to take our cameras into town and, taking inspiration from some of the obervational photography Andy showed us prior to town, take photos that we felt represented the area we were shooting, or perhaps England in general somehow.

We were actually told to avoid changing our photos to black and white, but I personally shoot often in b+w and I feel that in certain images it really enhances the effect of the photo. Some photos, I think, are just that much more expressive when colour is taken away. For this reason I am choosing to keep the b+w ones that I have uploaded. However, I will replace them with their colour versions if I am told I must do.

I was interested in the effect of shadow in an image. I chose photos where the shadows had 'cut up' the image, leaving parts in darkness and allowing the colours struck by the light to look more vibrant in contrast to it.