AD4803 Street// Practitioner research 6- Magnum research- Diary of a Pandemic: March 26, 2020

Emin Özmen

“We are stressed after learning two of our nephews have been diagnosed with Covid-19. Here my wife Cloé is sitting on the coach, lost in her deep thoughts and the uncertainty of our own situation, only hoping the best for our beloved ones.”

This image by Emin Özmen shows an insight into his home during isolation. There is a lot of emotion in the image as his partner sits with her eyes closed and her hand to her head, after recieving news about how her family had been affected by the virus. The image is simple, but works in telling the subjects story. The light source is from a window, which has projected several shadows across the room, breaking up the shot and highlighting the subjects face. The image is landscape, with the subject to the right of the centre. We can see her surroundings are her living room, giving us a more personal insight into her life. The amount of sunlight coming into the scene, means the iso would be quite low, somewhere around 200. The aperature would be around f/16 as the whole frame is sharp. The photographer is in front of the subject, slightly elevated.

I will be using light similar to Ozmen as a way of making a standard shot look more interestring. Documentation of light projection through a window can work really well in creating shadows and highlighting the subject, something I am keen to include in my 30 days.

Nesoddtangen. Norway. March 20, 2020.

“At home with daughters Boe and Billie, as all the nursery schools are closed during the Coronavirus outbreak.”

This image shows the subject sat outside. The photographer is inside and has shot the subject through a window. The subject is in the last third of the image. The whol frame is in focus, suggesting a wide aperature has benen used, around F16. There are a lot of shadows within the frame, with the subject sat in the sun in a highlight. The sun seems to be quite low, casting strong shadows. The plant inside has created a strong shadow, adding more depth to the negative space of the wall inside. An iso of aorund 200 has been used, with not too much light being let into the lens, keeping the image under exposed, exposed for the highlights. This tecnique means that the subject doesn’t have to be central, or the only point of focus, as our eyes automatically lead to her as this is the journey the light makes, leading to the highlights, the subject.