Wednesday, 22 January 2014

My Week In Pictures - Week 3


Jan 13th - Back to uni assignments!



Jan 14th - Day 2 of my essay



Jan 15th - Day 3 in the library, essay nearly done!



Jan 16th - Peace Gardens is pretty at night time



Jan 17th - Unique beer pong



Jan 18th - Night out with my coursemate



Jan 19th - Sheffield train station







My Week In Pictures - Week 2


Jan 6th - Shopping at The Trafford Centre


Jan 7th - Dad's birthday!



Jan 8th - Mum's 40th birthday!



Jan 9th - Our very cute pet bunny!



Jan 10th - Crewe bypass at night time



Jan 11th - Stepdad's birthday!



Jan 12th - Christmas is over, back to uni I go! - Stockport station






My Week In Pictures - Week 1

My New Year's resolution is to take a photo a day. Just before New Year, lots of people posted flip-o-grams on Facebook and Instagram, and it made me realise that in comparison to when I was younger, I took hardly any pictures last year. For that reason, I have made it my mission to take a photo every day this year and keep a photo diary on my blog. As well as having more pictures of my year, I am hoping that this task will make me spend my time wisely. I tend to waste a lot of time and there are days where I don't do anything and then regret it. This way, if I feel under pressure to take an interesting photograph, it might make me develop better habits where I naturally fill my time doing more interesting and fun things. Hopefully by next New Year's eve I will have 365 photographs of the amazing year I have had and will be able to make a video collage of my own!


Week 1


Jan 1st - Manchester United v Tottenham Hotspur



Jan 2nd - Champagne for Mum's birthday



Day 3 - Family appreciation



Jan 4th - Day out in Chester



Jan 5th - Baby calf on my walk home







Friday, 15 November 2013

New York + London: A Vision of Home

http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/new-york--london-a-vision-of-home/37844/#.UYgiL3lfJBY.tumblr

Check out this stunning photography!

When I was doing photography at A Level I took every opportunity to layer my images so when I saw this project that Daniella Zalcman has completed, i fell in love! I think the images have been paired really well; each image cleverly uses the whitespace in the other image to form a complete composition without overlapping objects and creating confusion. I also think that the final look of these images is extremely interesting, they almost look as if they have been painted! But what really got me about these images is that the entire editing process has been completed solely using her iphone, amazing!

Tuesday, 20 August 2013

Florida

I followed a tutorial which involved cross-processing the image before adding a black & white layer and a purple gradient layer to make the image darker. I didn't like the look of the images with the purple gradient layer, so instead i decided to add a gradient layer and use the spherical gradient using white in the foreground and black in the background. I then overlayed this gradient over the image to create a dark vignette effect. And here are the final images...




























Florida

In May this year (after years of going on about it) i finally got to go to Disney land Florida! Over the two weeks i was there i took a lot of photographs at the parks and in the area surrounding the hotel. Here is my contact sheet...






Even though there are a lot of images here, there were only a select few that i really think are strong images. When considering how i was going to edit them, my boyfriend made a comment that it would be a cool idea to edit the images in a really dark way to contradict the bright happy image that people get when you say Disney. I didn't like the idea of making them really dark, but i liked the concept of doing something unpredictable, so i decided to look at a lomography tutorial that tells you have to create a dark cross-processed image.


Thursday, 15 August 2013

A Colourful Walk

A COLOURFUL WALK

These edits have come from a shoot i did a while back whilst on a walk down a dirt track near where i live. On the day i chose to do the shoot it was really cold and the weather was really dull with a low coating of fog. I thought the weather would make for interesting photography. However, when it came to editing them i found it difficult to know how best to manipulate them. I would usually go for changing levels and saturation to create an image with bolder colours, or alternatively the cross-processing technique to create some lomography. However, because of the dullness of these images, bringing them to life by enhancing the colours proved difficult. Instead, i decided to play around with the hues and bring them to life by adding unusual colours. I thought that trying to add blues and purples to the grassy areas would create an element of fantasy and make the images pop. This manipulation did not work on many of the photographs, but on the ones that it did i think it created some strong photography.

Here is an example of what the images looked like before...


...and this is what they looked like after!