A few final images...

So, seen as my hand in for this brief is tomorrow, I thought I might aswell share a few of my final images...

The final image in this series is a personal favourite of mine.I think the only way I will ever know if these images are good enough for a magazine/review, or any other publication, is to get them into competitions and sending them out to people within the industry.

M.E.N Christmas Market Review...

As you would expect, the local paper have done a piece on the markets but yet again, lacking in images, using only one image to be precise!

I think to make my series work even more, I could do a food and drink review as they have done in the Manchester Evening News. I think this would open up more potential clients for my work.

This is something I should strongly consider.


http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/life_and_style/s/1594106_manchester-christmas-markets-2012-our-guide-to-the-best-festive-food-and-drink-on-offer

Research...

Heading to the Christmas market area of the Official Manchester City Council website, I find only the two following images...

Personally, I see much more of an advertising opportunity here and they seem to have missed it. I know the markets already sell themselves, but for someone visiting here for opening times and/or general information I think they could of used some promotional images, the kind I will be aiming to shoot for my series.

http://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/500241/christmas_markets

Research...

The following images are sourced off the Visit Scotland official website. I don't think these images are too dissimilar to mine, maybe the setup is a little more thought out in one or two but I could see my work fitting in somewhere like this...

http://www.visitscotland.com/about/food-drink/ayrshire-arran

Revised Idea

For my original idea I had planned to shoot around the Northern Quarter over a 24 hour period. After some consideration I decided to put that idea on hold due to the weather and my general safety, I would like to achieve this series but I think it’ll have to wait until the summer.

The Christmas markets are something that obviously attract a lot of people each year, and something that brings a lot of diversity with what they sell there. I thought the food and drink aspect of things would be good to run with as there would be quite a lot of different foods and sweets there, with a lot of varying colours.

I feel my work would ultimately be seen in a food and drink type magazine/book and could also be used as promotional information for the Christmas markets themselves.

Now I just have to research how food and drink series are laid out. 

Street Photographers: Henri Cartier-Bresson

Here are a few examples of Cartier-Bresson's work (All images sourced via Google)...

I'd like to include this link from The Telegraph newspaper. It makes for a very interesting read... 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/7572563/Expert-Witness-Henri-Cartier-Bresson.html

Street Photographers: Joel Meyerowitz

Joel Meyerowitz, 2009. 

Here are a few examples of Meyerowitz's work (All images sourced via Google)...

 

Meyerowitz's work is a lot more suited to what I enjoy about street photography. Even though in some of the images he has that same in your face approach as Garry Winogrand, I feel the way he looks for the unusual things you see about the streets, colour schemes, odd looking situations etc, are on the same level as what I like to look for when I'm out.

Street Photographers: Garry Winogrand

Garry Winogrand, 1968.

Here are a few examples of Winogrand's work (All images sourced via Google)...

Winogrand's images are work that I can sort of relate to, in such that I enjoy snapping people out and about. The only difference is, in his approach he's usually upfront and in peoples faces, whereas I like to keep at a distance whereby the subject(s) don't know they've been photographed or if they do, they haven't had my camera shoved in their face(s).
I would like to try to be a bit more bold when taking these kind of images. I guess it's just a case of sucking it up and getting in the thick of it!

Street Photographers: Lee Friedlander

Lee Friedlander, 1965.

Here are a few examples of Lee Friedlander's work (All images sourced via Google)...

It's no secret that Friedlander was a big fan of shadows and reflections, as so plainly obvious in each of the above images. 

This style of street photography, and his photography as a whole, is interesting to me and is something I would like to try as maybe an emulation of Friedlander.