26/06/12- Pictures that were never captured.

On July 7th 2005, Hasib Hussain detonated a bomb on the Number 30 bus at Tavistock Square in London, killing 14 people- including himself. These 13 other people may have captured a picture of him, but obviously the camera would not survive the blast. We aimed to re-create an image that may or may not have ever existed for a college project. Using the E10 electric bus in St Helens, and using James Ault and Sean Nicholas as subjects in the image, we succeeded.

25/06/12- Final Zap Stand- Client Requirement

25/06/12- Final Images

The residents of Thomas House Residential House wait in anticipitation of the torch. I took this image as this was where I waited for the torch, and my Mum is a careworker at the house. This was to show the element of happiness, that the comminity has come together to watch the torch.

I took photographs of the vehicles in the parade. There was not just the torch on offer at the relay. I have also included onlookers in the road.

I focused on the cheerleaders on top of a Samsung bus. I was hoping that when I mounted the images this would look good in the middle of my mountboard to show an element of celebration.

In hindsight, I would have used a much faster shutter speed. The day was very bright, so even a 1/1000 shutter speed would have been best. Unfortunately, on ISO100 settings I used 1/100, which was far too short.

25/05/12

As the olympic torch is passing through St Helens soon, I thought I would look for ideas of how other people have photographed the torch in both Britain and in other countries over the years

In all pictures, focus should be on the torch bearer. In this case, the bearer is completely in focus. The entire torch is also in the picture.

Keith is in focus, however part of the torch is cut off.

This is a good image. The entire torch is in shot, as is the parade behind and some members of the crowd.

This picture is pretty basic, but it shows the minimal qualities of the image I'm hoping to capture. The torch is completely in the shot, as is the bearer.

Again, the same as earlier. However members of the crowd taking photographs are also in the image. I'd like to capture members of the crowd in the images I am hoping to create, as the torch relay is aimed at the crowd for Britain as a nation.

Unfortunately in the area of St Helens I will be photographing the relay, there isn't a change in torchbearers. Here, Will.I.Am takes over. If there was a change over where I was photographing, this would be the shot I would hope to achieve. The former torchbearer has their back to the camera, whereas the new bearer is facing forwards. This shows a sense of joy on the face of the new bearer.