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Same background with movement

This is fuuuuuun and I'm going to take more like this with more distinctive backgrounds

Feeling like I'm stuck in a loop

Desperately trying to take it further, thinking more deeply about creating meaning in the use of double exposure.

Mood changes - bipolar/ uppers+downers. I like the composition of how the dominant image is happening in the right bottom corner and theres a lot of black space above.

Cat movement. Bottom image is slightly blurred, the ear on top of the nose is giving a light focal point of both exposures.

Same picture. Layers, slightly moved upwards. Hallucinating impression of an ecstasy trip when you see double/triple/quadruple

Hallucinating, slight movement. Eyes like starts - like on acid

Sleep paralysis and out of body experiences

Final illustration... hopefully...

(In my sketchbook everything is annotated)

Front cover

The boat was running before the wind with two reefs, and the mermaid was keeping up with them. The skipper threw out a herring, and the mermaid remained on the surface. The skipper then asked all the others to throw out a herring, and they all threw out a herring in turn, and she didn’t submerge.

Donald threw out a herring; as soon as he threw it, the mermaid went under.

Development and a potential final poster

Changing my mind really late in the Information Graphics unit has it's consequences. I feel it's the only thing I am able to concentrate on and put effort into so that I can make it as good as I possibly can, with all the time loss I have extra pressure on me but I am getting there.

This was me trying to do a typography portrait by reading instructions online... I'm not the best at doing that. It turned out completely wrong but it looks interesting and it does well for development I guess?

Simple approach - type over photo. I really don't like this one, I think it's the type with serifs it really pisses me off.

Black and white to make it slightly more sad

Here I printed off the photo I was using as a base on the previous attempts, and wrote on it rather than creating it on photoshop I did it by hand, then scanned it into the computer and wrote the titles. I don't like this one it's grainy and shit quality. The writing is blue because that's the colour sharpie I used and it looks really scruffy.

So then I had a really smart idea, I used the previously wrote on photograph and put it on the light box, newsprint on top and traced the typography onto newsprint with a sharpie. I then scanned the newsprint in, Uploaded it on photoshop, selected the writing and pasted it on the portrait. It fits, it's clear and clean - simple. Good poster I think

boots and cats

Each one of them is minding their own business. I like the composition and how they are back to back, shadows that Olly creates on the wall are cool too, there are lots of different patterns and colours that don't go in the room which helps to make the photo feel real.

Olly was jumping up trying to catch reflection, I took some quick snaps to catch him at the time. Looks interesting with the fibres on the walls and his deep black eyes math the throw to the right of him. I also like it because i didn't ask him to do that (obvs) - not posey

I edited this one to create a slight blur for a more interesting dominant image of the fabric rather than the cat> makes it feel like Olly is the background.

Different compositions

Portrait of Anna being herself with lots of colourful layers on.

I was thinking about depth of field and how it would turn out if I made the part that's the closest out of focus and background in focus. Different, but I'm not too sure.

The opposite, I like this one - the plant at the front looks much warmer than the background plants.

3 layers of blue

I've always hated winter but now that I have a camera I actually kinda like it.

Lovely frost this morning!! Of course I couldn't help myself and create a double exposure of it.

Again, but 1 image is upside down.

Frost shot, amazing colour contrast with the warm colours at the top and really cool frosty colours at the bottom.

The dramatic light in my bedroom in the winter time gives me almost studio space in my won room, beautiful shadows.

typeface portraits for racism poster.

I had a slight epiphany yesterday to do with information graphics unit, I was sure I had it all under control and I was ahead of time - in my head I knew what my poster was going to look like. I was so wrong, I was doing something that wasn't really an interest and had nothing to do with me. I felt the need to get slightly personal so I thought about my nationality and it's stereotypes along with the British and how they can be racist towards the polish and why, I wrote many things down in my sketchbook with a million ideas a minute, then somehow I thought about how strong typography can be.

I was going to have offensive words towards Poles that the British have said in the past - but to have a stronger effect I was going to write them in Polish, in the shape of the words "GO HOME" - still want to try that idea, but then I thought of using a portrait and making it out of typography. After a very long 2 hours of trying to figure it out - kind of got it, but it is still not as good as I would like it to be.

This one I made using a very simple approach - not successful. I changed a portrait of Dominika (makes sense because she is Polish) into black and white then created a slight vignette with the brush tool, then I put type over her face and changed opacity to 50% and put it under the layer of the brush tool. It looks very amateur so I am not going to do it that way.


This was done using the complicated way that I can't even describe at this moment in time, but I will use this method again to perfect it because it looks a lot more professional and looks soooo much better. I want the poster to have the writing "Racism isn't always straightforward." because it isn't ordinary white against black racism, It's saying words such as "Go home and stop stealing our jobs" to people like me and my friend Dominika, it's slightly different and not as straightforward. They say these things without realising it wasn't in our intention to even move here in the first place, since we were only like 7 and 8. Grew up here as well so we feel Scottish rather than Polish. People also don't think that racism applies to people who are the same colour/race - it definitely does. And this is what I am trying to get across through this poster. It's black and white and rather subtle to represent how minor these kinds of racism seem to people but they are just as bad as any other kind. The colours and faded feel makes this poster have a rather sad mood which is good.

double exp exp

Thinking about the size of my final photographs, I don't know what they will be yet, I would like to chose an appropriate size and to do that I will have to see what works. To try that out I would like to print these two images off in A1 as I think they would have an incredible effect at large scale rather than ordinary A4 or 6 x 4 photos.

I love this image, I took a good number of photo's of Dominika's hands and then played about on Photoshop to figure out which two would look good in a double exposure type image. The first image is her hand holding on to the other hand representing - holding on to something really tight, the second image is her hands on on top of another floating quite loosely - that representing the subtle feeling of letting go. I love that double exposure can tell these two stories in one image, rather than having an image of the hands when holding on and an image of the hands after letting go - I can have them together in one image, conveying an even stronger more beautiful message.

In one photo Dominika has her hand on the right side of her face and in another photo she has it on the left side, merging them together into double exposure creates the feeling of jittery movement and being undecided. Because some areas of the photo are blurred it suggest fast movement from one side to the other, the eyes not being quite lined up makes it look a little trippy. Undecided/ on drugs?/speed?

Floating

In order to mimic some other photographers, I set myself a challenge of trying out Bill Henson's floating girl photograph. It took me almost all day to get it to work, but eventually I came up with a result that I am happy with.

This is the original photograph, I fell in love with it straight away when looking at Bill Henson's photography, I thought that I should try and copy this so I can have my very own version.

Hahahahaha this is awful. This is how it started, when I was taking portraits of Dominika, in the end I got her to lay on two chairs and have her arm falling down, looking relaxed as if she is sleeping. I then selected her and refined edge (which didn't work as I'd hoped) Then, because I didn't have my own photograph of city lights I searched for one on the internet for ages and this was the only one I found with a decent resolution. This is really awful, so I tried again.

Took a different picture and applied the same process, this time I used a photo of the moon that I took, I thought this was a little better but I wanted something more.

This was the success, I like this. I took a different approach that time, I really darkened a photo I took of (slightly lit) Gala, and changed the brightness and contrast on the picture of Dominika. When I merged layers later, I changed the contrast to even higher so that you couldn't really see the bottom half of her body making it look a little more interesting. I like this as a result of mimicking Bill Henson because mine is very subtle with the little amount of lights - because it is a small town that I live in, and I used my best friend as the floating girl, it's my own, better version. However I will try this again with the model wearing more floaty clothes so it looks more natural.

this girl is my muse

I guess I am kind of getting the hang of studio portrait photography, although at the start I felt limited without the tripod I think I managed well without it.

That perfect side profile

Utilising light to really define the profile of the face, I think these are really good.

Using hands to create more shadows and creases. This one is interesting with the finger on the left being hardly visible.

Nice shadows on left hand side.

the look of enlightenment. Love it how u can juuuuust see the hair a tiny bit.

Little closer.

The involvement of hands within the face makes really interesting composition and really enhances the eyes. Love this one.

Same but more posey, felt kind of like a fashion photographer and director today.

I tried to mimic Jacob Aue Sobol - I will edit these on photoshop for a better result.

Thinking more dramatic for more interesting images.

I got her to wear a turtleneck in aim of creating a really dark background so only face and hands are visible - she looks like the moon hahaha

I like this one, the shadowing is really subtle.

The positioning of the hands makes really nice highlights on the knuckles that go nicely with the face highlights.

Thinking about contrast between the background and top.

Hands are a really good thing to photograph - very nice shadows and I like the strong highlight on the two nails on right hand side, but I wish it was only on one.

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