Unit 57: Photography and Photographic Practice

Research of other photographers work

Photographer: Nick Pickles• Nick Pickles is a London-based

freelance photographer travelling across the country to cover gigs, festivals and events for a wide range of clients. He currently works as the house music photographer at Wembley Arena, and in the past year have been commissioned by clients including Red Bull, the BBC, EMI, Disney and The Fly. He is also part of a company called Big Brother watch. He won the 2011 Rock Archive Glastonbury photo competition.

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Examples of photographs

Choose an image…. Describe it• This is my favourite image

from his website. It is a black and white photo of an artist at a festival lifting his guitar to the crowd.

Composition• This landscape shot was taken from behind the artist

to get a full view of the crowd, whilst having the guitarist as the main focus. He also uses vertical rule of thirds with the TV stand, main artist and the trees and countryside.

Techniques used• He has used an over the shoulder

technique so we can see what the guitarist is seeing.

Strengths & Weaknesses

• I think the photo is great as you get the proper festival feeling seeing a mass crowd with the countryside and nature in the background and the big TV stand in the middle of it all.