First Shoot

I went to Bournemouth, a city I live nearby to take all of my photos. I thought Bournemouth was my best bet as I always see many interesting people there. One of these interesting people I met is Steve, a 34 year old man who, sadly, is homeless. After having a brief conversation with him and introducing myself, he allowed me to take a few photos with him as the subject. 
Pictured right are the original images that I have taken. I am taking a series of two images per person, the first one is of their face, and the second is of their environment. 

The close up of Steve's face was taken at an aperture opening of f/2.8 on my Nikon D5100 with the NIKKOR 50mm f/1.8G. I had a shutter speed of 1/500th of a second. 
The second image was taken at an aperture opening of f/5.6, with a shutter speed of 1/500th of a second. 




The edited images:

Here are both my edited shots. All my shoots are going to be in black and white, because I feel images edited like this are much more interesting and emotive. The way I edited these images were as follows: In Picasa 3, I toggled and played around with the lighting and shadows of the images, making them stand out a little more. I then went onto GIMP where I desaturated the image and chose the Luminosity effect, because to me, that seemed like the effect that suited my images the most. 

Below is the contact sheet for my shoot. Out of all the shoots, I chose the images I most liked (which are named DSC_0058 and DSC_0066 in the sheet).

I used some of Aaron Joel Santos' techniques through Reportage photography. I photographed people I found in the streets to create a powerful image which told a story. Although I don't believe my images to be as powerful as they could have been, they are still nonetheless emotive images, such as those of Santos'.