Gregg Segal is a photographer who did a series of Gregg Segal is going to influence
photographs called 7 Days of Garbage. He was my decision making in this shoot
concerned with the amount rubbish people threw because I am going to make people
away in America. He used his photography series to accountable for the waste they
bring attention to the waste problem by personalising create. Similarly to Gregg I am
it. He asked people he knew to collect all their going to surround the models with
rubbish and recyclables for a week and then lie down their litter that has been
in it whilst he photographed it. He created the setting accumulated over a few days. I am
for the images in his garden, at the beach, in water going to use a deep depth of field
and in snow. Gregg believed that asking people to as well as an in-between depth of
look at their own litter waste helps people to consider field.
the issue more deeply. Gregg Segal said 7 Days of
Garbage is an instant archeology, a record not only of
our waste but of our values – values that may be
evolving a little.
GREGG
SEGAL
This image is a large, rectangular and portrait. In this image the audience
can see a family of 4: two adults (male and female) and two children (boy
and girl). The family are lying in on grass surrounded by 7 days of their own
waste. The image is filled with litter and the expressions on the models
faces is serious. The colours in the image are vibrant. The details within this
image are also very crisp therefore I think that Gregg Segal used a fast
shutter speed when shooting. This image has a very deep depth of field
which means that the audience can see the full bodies of the models and a
lot of the litter which helps to convey the meaning behind is shoot. This
image lacks composition because there are no leading lines and the rule of
thirds can’t be applied. I think that the image would be more visually
appealing if the rule of third could be applied - I would place one of the
model along one of the lines in the grid. This image makes the audience
accountable for the waste they accumulate by making it personal.
In my next shoot I am going to add a • I am going to use my Nikon D3500 camera.
personal element to my project by adding • I am going to use my 10-20mm lens because it Gregg Segal has influenced by
models to my images. I am going to make will help a get a very deep depth of field
decision making in this shoot
my models lie on the grass ground whilst • I am not going to use a tripod so I can be more because the subject of the shoot is
they’re surrounded by their waste that has versatile when shooting.
the same as his. I am also going to
been accumulated over a few days. I am use colour like he has done in his
• I am going to do the shoot on a clear bright day
going to shoot using various depths of field: so the audience can see the litter better
shoots. I would like my images to
a very wide depth of field and a narrower have more compositor than his
• I would like their to be interesting shapes created
depth of field. I am going to do the shoot in images. Unlike Gregg I am going to
within the image.
my garden using regular household waste shoot using a narrow and deep depth
• I am going to shoot from the viewpoint of of field.
however mainly recycled items. pointing my camera down at the model and litter
on the ground.
• The model I am going to use is a young boy.
My aims of the shoot are to create 6+ images of UK households produced just under
a male model being surrounded by waste. I 27 million tonnes of waste in 2017.
would like the models facial expression to be That's equivalent to 409 kg per person
relaxed and body language to be fairly straight. I - roughly the weight of four adult giant
am going to have the images in colour which I pandas. It's mostly made up of food
am going to enhance the colours in photoshop
because I want the images to be vibrant. I am
going to use my digital camera for this shoot
PLAN scraps, newspapers, cardboard, glass
bottles and plastics
because I want to manipulate the images in
Photoshop. I am going to use a fast shutter
speed in order to make the details within the
image crisp. I am going to use a combination of
narrow and deep depth of field to help convey
my meaning. I would also like there to be some
composition in the image.
My aims of the shoot are to make people more
accountable for the amount waste that they
dispose of. I would like the images in this shoot
to shock the audience into thinking more about
how much they waste because there is quite a
lot of waste. The image should portray the waste
in a negative way.
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