Taste of Digbeth

                           

                         In this photo you see all types of variety.

                        The shapes are spread all across the doorway and colour is spread across all shapes.

                        Their are different types of texture in the photo. There are smooth walls with a bump 

                        because the paint is applied. The door it self looks rough and if you run your hand

                        over, you will get splinters. In Photoshop I sharpened the image to give it a crisp
                        feeling.

                      

                              This image shows lots of effects. You can imagine that the ripples of the water are

                               bumpy. The reflection of the gate into the water makes it look like the gate is

                               bending and twirling. I decided to take this picture at this angle because I wanted
                              capture the water ripple and also the gate. This photo in Photoshop I done two
                              major things to improve the photo. First thing I done was I brightened the image
                              to make it clearer and then I sharpened the image to make it realistic.

                                            

                         This photo has texture, tone and line. The texture comes from the brick and how its

                         boiled/bubbles up. When you run your fingers across its bumpy. Tone is from the
                        colours. Their is a massive scale of colours from light purple/pink too. I took it at this
                        angle because I wanted to capture the colour of the graffiti and the shallow depth of
                       field. This image I enhanced the image quite a lot. First I change the colour of the
                       graffiti from a dull red to a bright and vivid purple. After that, in order for me to
                       bring life into the picture and produce high definition I sharpened the image.

                        This photo is of a fountain in use. I took this outside but in the custard factory. I tried
                      to capture the water as it flows threw the air and I precisely did that. I walked right to
                     the edge of fountain and use full maximum zoom (55mm). I am interested in capturing
                    the movement of the water but also freezing it like all time as stopped. In Photoshop
                    all I did was sharpen the image. I would of liked to have change the depth of field to
                    make the camera focus on the water fountain and blur out the background. The work
                    I done in Photoshop did improve the quality of the image.

                    This picture is a picture of a building with windows all in line with each other. I shot
                    this in the Custard Factory. I saw the building and took it from this angle because I
                    wanted to capture the symmetry and the levels of brightness. If you look at the top of
                    the windows the brightness is very dark and gets lighter the further down and captures
                    the reflection of the sky. Initially the image was very dark because my ISO was low.
                    So in Photoshop I made the brightness lighter and also sharpened the image.  For this
                    image my ISO setting was 125. I think it should of been on 200.

               

                       This shot was taken inside the Custard Factory. When I took the first image
                       and looked I realised it was too dark so I turned on the flash and got and amazing
                       result. I took the image looking up to make it seem the people are falling on the
                       camera.  In photo shop I sharpened the image and made the background black and
                       white but left the people in their original colour. My work in Photoshop has
                       improved my image a lot by focusing on one thing which is the people falling.

               This picture is of graffiti on the side of a building by the Custard Factory. I took the photo at
               this angle to capture as much of the graffiti as possible. In Photoshop I brightened the image
               and then I sharpened it also I changed the contrast. To improve I could have adjusted the
               angle for zoom length. For an imaginative feel, you could imagine your hand rubbing on the
               bricks but I wont be rough it will be smooth because the layers of the paint with make it
               smooth.

                 This photo is of a building outside the Custard Factory. The main subject of this photo is
                 to capture the three different colours spread across the buildings. The main point of the
                 photo is to capture of easy and quick the colours meet but don't look odd. I'm interested
                 in this photo because where the pink paint peels away. In Photoshop I never touched the
                 image I felt as if the colours where strong enough to stand out on there own. I guess I can
                 improve the image by cropping out the sky and only focusing on the building.
             

                           
 

               

               

Task 1: Discussing two images from two different photographers.

Researching two urban landscape photographers. 

Tom Manley

Iain Hutchinson

These images by Tom and Iain have one thing in common. They both have an old style building. As you can see, Tom has gone for the route where he wants you to focus on the building and the building only. However he may have took the picture on purpose with the bus in view to give the image colour. 

Iain has gone for a more scenic route with his building. He wanted to capture the reflection in the water and capture the trees dying in winter to give it a creepy feel. 

Also one more difference is that Tom has original. colour, where as Iain has shot it black and white.

I believe that Iain shot the photo in black and white to give it more of a scary and mysterious aspect of a still image.