JONNY'S FIRST DIGITAL SLR

For these shots i took out a Canon 30D slr with a fish eye lens. I did this for two reasons, one i have never really used a digital slr except when we got to play around with them in class, and two because i have never used a fish eye lens. I am very glad i did this as i feel a lot more confident using a digital slr now mainly due to the fact that i got to play around with it in my own time and see what does what.
I wanted to try and link the shots to my identity project whilst also experimenting with a new piece of kit. So whilst sitting in my room late at night/early in the morning I set the shutter speed to bulb, set the flash to a low setting and put the appature to 4.5. The reason for doing this was that if i held the shutter open and moved about it should create a number of me's. The reason for the flash being low was so that it would capture one strong image of me but it wouldn't be too bright and then any aditional movement thereafter would creat a blurred/(Jackson5esque 'can you feel it') effect. I think it worked quite well so i then went on to play around with my lighter and write stuff with it whilst the shutter was open. This started off just as a bit of fun, but I am now thinking that i would like to use this technique in the final flip book as i think it is quite an interesting way of including text in a photo.
As for the picture at the bottom of the construction site, well I thought it would just make a good photo. But if you want a link to identity then I guess an individual cannot have a true stable identity if that individual does not have solid foundations within themselves!