Ink Deep

Below are some further images that I took before I started to narrow down my final images.  I worked simply around our class rooms. I didn't feel the background was too important, unless it was something specific I was after, but in most cases, just the out of focus blur was enough to add the sort of atmosphere I wanted. I really like the images that involve interacting with the real world in someway, but in all honesty, I struggled to come up with interesting and clever ideas.  A lot of these images were simply inspired by the faces on the figures, and what sort of situations I could fit them into.

This is going to be a rather large post with a lot of images included.  It's basically a log of some of the images I've taken for my main coursework for photography.  I won't annotate every image, but most batches should have some comments. I decided I wanted to work with small subjects.  I'd never photographed small items before, and I really wanted to steer clear of doing landscape photography.  I talked my thoughts over with a few of my colleagues, and after that discussion, I decided I was going to use Lego characters as the subject for my work.   Before I decided on this idea though, I did some tests with some small figures I purchased at the college shop, mostly used for architectural models.  All of the ones below were taken on a Canon bridge camera, though I have double this amount on my phone. After taking some test images, I tried to find some Lego for further tests.  Weirdly, I have one on the dashboard of my ...