Thinking

After continuous research through many photographers websites i am beginning to push away from my lifestyle shots and turing more towards the environmental portrait side to this series.

I have been flicking through so many sports photographers websites and i am finding almost NO lifestyle shots at all. I believe lifestyle shots are not something i will put into my portfolio and the main reason i am doing the 3rd year degree is to build a very solid portfolio.

So for my lifestyle shots i am going to shoot environmental portraits of various extreme sports athletes. These will be done is quite a different way to the studio portraits where i am going for the quirky personalities of thees athletes. For the environmental portraits i want to capture them in their own environments such as their room or at the dirt jumps etc.

I will shoot all of these portraits with a 8mm fisheye lens. I want to portray their lives as distorted as i believe they live a completely different life to the normal everyday 9-5 person. I will try to capture this in my imagery. I also want to shoot my documentary series with the fisheye to portray this distorted lifestyle. The documentary series will be a expanded series on the environmental portraits on one athlete.