In year one of my degree, I looked into students and how they interact with their surroundings. I wanted to show the nightlife side of university, as that is an area that particularly interests me.

Though I liked the first two photos' colourations, I didn't feel as though they captured the idea of nightlife and so decided to introduce the idea of movement into my images. I therefore asked my subject to dance around and shake his hair, and decreased the shutter speed of the lens so as to capture the evidence of movement in the photo.

Though I liked these photos a lot more than the first set of images I had taken, I felt more movement could be captured in the image if my subject had long hair, and thus moved on to take photos of another subject, this time female, who had longer hair that could be moved in the photo. Another issue I had with the photos when looking back on them, was that there wasn't a clear indication that this subject was a student. I knew from this that I wanted the subject, in my next set of photographs, to be wearing some form of student stash clothing, and perhaps have something in the background to indicate add context to the photograph, to help reference the person to the place.

I immediately liked this set up a lot more, however felt the background in this was too distracting, as I wanted my subject to be the only person facing the camera.

This photo was my favourite, as there was enough movement in the hair so that you felt there was stuff going on in the photo. As well as this, the background provided context for the set up (ie. the face paint). The student clothing was highlighted in Photoshop after editing the colours, and thus helped provide context to the student's surroundings too.