On Wednesday March 10th, 2010 my photojournalism class went to Fort Charlotte in Nassau, Bahamas. We were told to go around and take pictures. But of course I knew we'd be taking more than just pictures, we'd be using all the photojournalistic information we had acquired over the past eight weeks to take our pictures.
Here's what I got on my first shot!
This is my favorite picture. I like the way I captured the wall. In this picture it doesn't even look like a wall to me, it looks like a wave. I love the textures and smoothness of the wall, the colors and even the depth of the picture is okay for a first try.
For the following two pictures, I was trying to capture a certain angle. I wanted to show depth by making the light a major focus of the picture but also I wanted to show the length and curve of Fort Charlotte.
For this picture I was actually standing very high up from this barricade. I used the zoom feature on my camera and was able to take this shot. My focus of the picture was really the NO ENTRY sign.
I was experimenting with parallel lines in this picture with the power lines and then the horizon of the sea, the edge of the wall and the two drain lines on the wall. They all go in the same direction and that's what I was trying to capture.
I wanted to show distance in this picture. I think it has a depth to it. I'm not really sure as yet but I was definitely experimenting with showing distance.
For the next two pictures, I had to get really low, down and dirty to get these shots. I like the natural lighting in the first picture. Also, this part of the structure is actually very small but I wanted to make it appear larger than it actually it is as seen in picture two.
I wanted to capture not only the structure but also the tourists. Fort Charlotte is one of the many tourist attractions in Nassau therefore, I wanted to show tourists coming to this spot to enjoy and learn the history of the fort. The cracks and age in the structure shows that it's been around for a very long time.
I was trying to show repetition with with the lights and also I wanted to show the depth of field.
I know I still have soooo much to learn but I think I did pretty well for my first try at photojournalistic picture-taking.
