Having spent the past 3 months 400 miles away from home being bombarded with photography, new ideas, concepts and perspectives on the things i shoot, and how i go about that, i have felt my self evolve as a photographer. The photo i shot for my summer task still to me represents one of the things i love most about living in Grimsby. The image represents not only something i enjoyed back home when i was a marshal at Cadwell Park but also the child hood dream that still sits with me today, that one day i want to be riding a sports bike round a track at ludicrous speeds.
The image was captured using a slow shutter speed and using a technique called panning, when i combined this with my 140mm lens and continuous focusing mode it allowed me to produce an image that i am proud of, an image that captures the action but with clean aesthetics that make it an appealing photograph.
I'm not sure that even after the past 3 months of learning and honing my skills as a photographer that i would be able to replicate this image again easily. However what i could do with my broadening knowledge of narrative image making and photographic essays is to follow up on the story. i might consider finding out who the rider on the bike is and capturing the full story from portraits of the rider to observed portraits of the maintenance and the travelling around the country as well as interviews and multimedia content. I feel that this could be an interesting subject to capture as i could look not only from my perspective but from his and also the family around him and how this dangerous sport affects them.
When i captured this image i was at a stage where i was certain that sport photography is the direction i definitely wanted to go however i am beginning to evolve that idea as long form photographic and multi media essays have sparked an interest which is something i will be experimenting with in the coming year.
