Invitation from the Mayor

While carrying out my 'Wimborne in Bloom' investigtion I met the Mayor of Wimborne. He was very interested about my project and the reasoning behind it and so he invited me as a private photographer to take photographs of the 'Turning on of the lights' event in which the whole of the community of Wimborne gather together and start the celebration of christmas. From this my photographs would then be appearing in the wimborne community newsletter as a documentry of this event. 



This photograph above is quite fascinating with the warm hues and tonal ranges within it linking to the warm colours of Christmas. Another element of this photograph that catches your eye is the children who are all looking at something beyond the photograph which almost gives that sense of tension behind it as you don't know what their looking at. Because of the mystery of this photograph I decided to experiment with turning the photograph black and white and changing the brightness and contrast which would bring out the irony of what you cannot see.

I have also lightened the girl's face to the left of the photograph as I thought that this would work well with her being the element of the photograph that you look at first and it helps in balancing the photograph out.

I found that these three photographs worked really well together as they all have a common factor. At least one person within each photo is glancing to the left of the image. As well as this, you then have the colour elements of the photographs in which are all quite similar within the three photographs, with the last two having the dominant red tones and lastly the fact of why the people are all present within this one room. All being there to see the mayor.

I wanted to place the mayor as the second photograph out of the three because of the fact that all other beings are there because of his presence. They are all there to Turn on the lights and be there for the church.