Second Shoot

1) Here, I was looking at the empty playground, but was struggling to convey my intentions with no kids playing, and also thought the play equipment with no human interaction was rather boring - the bliss of childhood play is what I'm trying to convey and I can't do this with no one in the photos! The children aren't the subject of the photos, but they give meaning to the space.

2) This photo is a retake of one I took in my last shoot, just experimenting with a slightly different angle and composition. I also boosted the colour a little more in this shot, so as to convey the novelty and 'newness' of it in a child's mind.

3) I was very lucky that this photo is so focussed on the far child because I noticed after taking the picture that this captures her as she 'jumps' at the very top of the seesaw's movement! I love how this captures a very peak moment.

4) This is a beautiful photo - capturing in first person the joy of child's play. It was a spur of the moment picture that I took while on a tangent from my photoshoot that I took to play with a child who needed someone on the other end of the seesaw as her parent was with her sibling on another part of the playground (photo 5). It has a nice balance between the two sides of the photo (partially incorporating the climbing frame and swings on each side) and with the central seesaw focus, but has enough of the space to still be focussing on that rather than solely the child who was on the other end of the seesaw as I took this photo.

5) This photo has near perfect proportions according to the 'rule of thirds' and I really like it for that. It freezes a moment in time of blissful play between father and child.

6) This is the same part of the playground at a later point in time when two siblings were playing together, taken from a different angle also. I love how this shows the space being used cooperatively by siblings.