week 4

Last week we went out and took more pictures. We were told to narrow down on our subjects for Control. I had chosen 3, establishment, rebellion and lack of control. For lack of control i decided to do nature taking control over man made things such as ivy, weeds growing through walls and rust. I thought of locations and one of the first i thought of was the back streets for mill road. I got there and i knew i had picked the perfect location. I tried taking pictures of things that you wouldn't straight away associate with control, such as rust. Rust can be associated with control because it means that nature has control over the man made metal. I took this picture of the rusty chain because i thought that it symbolises that what once was a strong chain is now weak because of nature. When i took the picture i wanted to take it not just plain straight on picture of the full chain - i wanted a close up section of the chain. I think that the picture i took looks really good. For my rebellion picture i wanted graffiti, I knew there was some on mill road so i decided to go there. For my pictures, i took extreme close ups so that the graffiti seemed a little bit abstract. I think this worked really well and i think it was a new technique i hadn't used before. Finally  for my establishment i thought that i would take a picture of the cycle bridge. i wanted to show off the internal structure of the bridge. I think this worked really well and the picture looks very powerful and controlling. Next week i will edit these and hopefully crop them a little bit more and change the contrast etc.

Week 3

Last week we started to take some more pictures and edit our previous and the pictures we took last week pictures. We added much more complex effects. I thought about doing more than just changing the contrast and brightness, i also played around with using different layers of pictures. I tried to cut and paste certain sections of different pictures to create a sort of collage. This looked a little bit messy and i think i may attempt to put less in the collage next lesson or perhaps for the real thing. I also tried adding distortion effects such as a lens flare which looked really good it think it also added a new dimension to the image. I think i did well at using new techniques when editing not just using plain and boring adjustments. When i took pictures last week i thought back to my previous pictures and thought about how i could improve them, i thought that i needed a more varied selection of shots. In my previous shots the angles of my shots were pretty much all the same, also the distances i had taken them from were the same. So i thought that this time i should try and use more unique techniques such as low angle, close ups and perhaps longshots or panoramas. I took lots of interesting shots like this and tried to take equal amouts of different angles. After i had taken these photos, i started to edit them. I continued to edit in a more experimental way, as i had in the previous lessons. Here are some of the unedited images.