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1. Unit 57: Photography and
Photographic Practice
Research of other photographers
work (P1, M1, D1)
Photographer: Daniel Harris (NME)
Paste 6 images here include the name & date of image

4. Theme or focus of images
It is clear that this photographer is into music specifically rock and likes to convey the
feeling of touring with a band into his photos with pictures of the band backstage,
guitar cases and the band coming on the stage, because the band are on tour the
photos are taken in different places, wherever the band are touring. The majority of
the photos apart from the ones of cases feature the band (Darlia) and even on the
cases it has the band’s name on. It’s obvious the photographer likes get natural shots
of the band either before going on or action shots whilst on but they are never posed.
The photos were taken on the bands 2013 tours and at the start of 2014 I know this
because of how the lead singer (Nathan Day) looks like and because of how big the
shows are because they’ve only just come into popularity. These photos were taken
for NME to promote the band and tell people who they are and what they’re like so I
think the photographer took this account and tried to capture the essence of the
band in the most natural way instead of doing posed photos in a studio he caught
what they were like backstage and on stage and I think he did it successfully.
Composition
In photos 4, 7 and 8 the photographer decides to only include the singer (Nathan
Day) because he is the frontman and I think he’s trying to capture what he’s like as a
frontman so people who read NME can get an idea of what he’s like. He could of
included the rest of the band in the shot but he decides to only include the frontman
because that’s who people concentrate on the most and who everyone are going
to be interested in.
Photo 4 I think was taken to show the passion behind the band because the photo is
of the front man holding the microphone with both hands and you can see him
giving it his all down the microphone. I think this was the best photo taken by him
because of how it’s from the crowds POV and it gives you an experience of what it
would be like to see them live with the passion in the face and because he puts it in
black and white that’s where your eyes get drawn and its very well framed how the
microphone and the singers head are the centre points of the photo.
Techniques used

5. The shutter speed would have been difficult for the photographer because obviously
the band is in a pretty dark venue but there is stage lighting so he would have had to
of found a reasonable balance to achieve the best shots so he would of used an
average shutter speed so it wasn’t too dark or too bright. Different filters were used on
quite a few of the photos to make them look a bit older and more vintage and they
give a more personal feel to the photos but this would have been done in post-production.
There was a little bit of depth of field use but not a lot was just used a tiny
bit to draw your eye to the main target the band/ frontman.
Strengths & Weaknesses
I like the filters used on the photos, how he uses POV shots so the audience can relate
also I like how he made all the photos looks so natural. So all of these will probably
influence my work.
I don’t like how stuff is left in the shot such as in the first photo there’s a water bottle in
the bottom right of the photo that could have been framed out of the shot.

6. The shutter speed would have been difficult for the photographer because obviously
the band is in a pretty dark venue but there is stage lighting so he would have had to
of found a reasonable balance to achieve the best shots so he would of used an
average shutter speed so it wasn’t too dark or too bright. Different filters were used on
quite a few of the photos to make them look a bit older and more vintage and they
give a more personal feel to the photos but this would have been done in post-production.
There was a little bit of depth of field use but not a lot was just used a tiny
bit to draw your eye to the main target the band/ frontman.
Strengths & Weaknesses
I like the filters used on the photos, how he uses POV shots so the audience can relate
also I like how he made all the photos looks so natural. So all of these will probably
influence my work.
I don’t like how stuff is left in the shot such as in the first photo there’s a water bottle in
the bottom right of the photo that could have been framed out of the shot.