photography

today we went out on our field trip to Brighton, and did a task in which we filmed a subject. I found a flower shop which i took photos of:

1) this first one is one which might distinguish to the viewer where it was; this is right next to the pavilion. It also shows the subject (one of two) at work, talking to a customer and selling flowers.

This is the flower shop worker again, as a portrait. He was very funny and chatty and I wanted to not take a traditional normal portrait of him, so i took it through the window, with the flowers in the fore-ground, so show where he works, and the reflection of the street to partially obscure his features; kind of to show that he always work on the street, with the public. You can also not really see him...you could say that this links to how you never really look at/remember those who serve you in shops. :D

This next photo from inside the shop, was the flower shop mans assistant, who was plaiting dried reeds to tie the flowers with. I used a faster aperture because i liked the way the low lighting made the reeds look. Below is what it looked like with a flash, which is less interesting.

Below again are detail images for

both people.I really liked all the colors and shapes in the flowers, especially the white flowers. I also liked how the dark lighting in the shop made the roses in the foreground, and the figure in the background the only things in light; this looks quite gothic.