Travel tickets shoot
As a result of my first shoot using receipts i decided i needed to try and find a concept which would work better. The idea of receipts seemed far too vast. I chose to have a walk about the streets and find discarded bus and train tickets. I really liked this idea as i felt as a series it had more of a direct story behind it. A ticket represents a journey made in a persons life. Unlike my previous shoot i chose to capture the tickets opened up so the viewer could see all the details on the ticket, such as where and when the person had traveled. Even on the train ticket it states that particular person was buying an adults ticket. With this small amount of information we begin to assume things about the person who's traveled or start to imagine who it could maybe have been.
An improvement i feel i want to make upon this shoot is shooting the tickets on a more interesting background, either patterned or textured. Because of how black the background looks one member of my class actually pointed out how the images looked like scans of the tickets. This is something i actually really agree with, therefore the images are not really showing my true skill as a photographer. A good idea i gained from group discussions would be to photograph the tickets upon bus seats as this would add more context to the images and create more of an interesting skilful looking image.
As a larger series of images i feel they would work incredibly well as only with these four tickets here the vast difference can be seen. Travel tickets come in all colours and shapes but are used for the exact same purpose, by very different people.
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