Week 19 C.A.P documentary project

These are some of my final images for my documentary project based on a community, I chose to explore the community within a gym and people working out, which lead me to also show the community within a group of friends and how they help each other and work together to get the results they want.

I actually found it really intimidating because although I love documentary images, I have never myself done a project like this and haven’t got much experience with photographing strangers. A tip the Platon gave me, when we visited him in New York, was sometimes its good to admit that your nervous because it makes the sitter feel more comfortable as they may be just as nervous. I used this valuable tip for my shoots and I definitely feel it helped, as it was a good icebreaker.

I used Photoshop to edit my images, as the original files were far too busy with too much colour causing the viewer to get distracted from the main message. For this reason I decided to do them in black and white and then play around with the levels and curves.

Overall I am happy with how I have managed this project, the shoots were all very successful and the post production was fairly simple too, I am really pleased with all my final outcomes as I feel they display the community within both the gym and their group of friends working as a team very well.