James

My final shoot of the day was of James, who brought with him his watch. Having known James for nearly two years now I cannot say that I have noticed him with this watch. Maybe this is down to being oblivious on my part, or maybe it is not something that he does not wear that often. Somehow, I did not get the story behind how this item is important to him, however I shall be asking him in the near future, out of both personal interest and for the purpose of this project.

For now here are a few of the images I took of him, experimenting with different angles and ways in which we could shoot the watch:

To begin with I went for the casual stance with James arm at his side. However, whilst I am pleased with how those images came out, I couldn't help but notice the similarity with the way which Caz was photographed and so I experimented with a couple of different stances for James to take whilst I photographed.
I feel that the image with his hand on the back of his head is not as strong as the other stances as I think that the attention is taken away from the watch and is instead taken to his hand, making us question why he is in this stance. I feel that it instead makes us look into maybe what emotions this is conveying rather than looking at the item of importance to James.
On the other hand, I particularly like the image of James with his arms crossed. I felt that the image with his arm by his side was too similar to the one of Caz and I feel that this image is in some way more "manly", the crossed arms portraying a sort of male dominance. Or maybe a more natural stance for James to take rather than the gentle nature of the relaxed arm at the side.

Image taken on the Hasselblad 503CW, digital back.