Project Update 1

As my project is about Thai boxing athletes and their stories, I have been going to their training sessions for the past two weeks and taking some test shots. It’s through these test shots of the training that I will pick out my best 8-12 photographs of my chosen athletes.

The pictures above are a few test shots that I have accumulated whilst attending sessions for the past two weeks and are the style that I look to use within my actual project but with more clarity and quality.

As a beginner with little experience using a camera, it is natural that most of the photographs taken in the early stages will come out with errors such as blur and other issues, which is what I have been experiencing throughout my process of taking photos. Since the content I am covering involves fast movement and action, finding the right angle, speed and timing when capturing something is going to be extremely difficult.

However, as you start to familiarise yourself with a DSLR camera you’ll start to find things slightly easier and capture decent images and the ones above are proof of that. All three images were taken whilst the individuals were performing some sort of kicking action, which I think is a good moment to capture, but as the images suggest, there is blur on all of them which takes a way from the quality and also perhaps the angles at which they were taken could also be better.

However, as you start to familiarise yourself with a DSLR camera you’ll start to find things slightly easier and capture decent images and the ones above are proof of that. All three images were taken whilst the individuals were performing some sort of kicking action which I think is a good moment to capture, but as the images suggest, there is a blur on all of them which takes away from the quality and also perhaps the angles at which they were taken could be better.