This shoot did not turn out like I wanted it to or how I expected it to. The results are interesting and although they do show the colours that I was expecting the makeup/facepaint that I used on the model could not be seen very well and so that aspect of the shoot did not turn out too well. The images are also not all of a fantastic quality, I had hoped that the water would be clear but the pool cover had been left off for a long time so there was a lot of drt in the water. I also encountered the issue that the water was way too cold for me or the model to be able to stay in the water for more that a few minutes even though it was incredibly sunny.
I would have preferred to have organised this shoot at a different time of day as well as midday but due to time constraints for the pool owner and my model this could not be helped. This did help however because although the light was not fantastic for shooting above the water I really needed the very bright and direct sunshine for the underwater photographs. Because this was one of the first attempts to use the case for my digital camera under water I was not very experienced in using it, I needed to borrow some small dumbbells to weigh the case down so it could sink with me, because of this it was difficult to handle under the water and even more difficult to handle above the water and some of the settings were difficult to use in addition to keeping the lens cover from creating dark corners.
The colours that make up the images are quite nice, they really help to create the kind of effect that I was looking for but I would have prefered for them to have more structure to them. The all felt kind of flat and uninteresting. I tried to get a variation of different shots due to the low quality of the images but all it did was confuse the results of the shoot, there was no linear storyline to the images, again partly due to not being able to stay in the water for too long. despite my dissatisfaction with the shoot I still took the images in the contact sheet above and edited them all to see if I could get some better results from them.
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This is the result of the editing. I only passed them through Lightroom quicky with some small exposure changes, clarity adjustments and on a few I changed specific areas. There was not much that I could do with these images other than this in Lightroom, but I have attempted editing them in Photoshop to see if I can get any different results from some more abstract editing. This experimentation is going to be shown in the next blog post.
The sea is an incredibly powerful force. It is often taken for granted that we can co-exist safely with it but this is far from the case. I have already looked at the mysteries and mythology that people think of when it comes to the sea but now I am going to look at the true destructive power of the sea. The sea is one of the most powerful forces on earth, it takes life like it is nothing. Countless lives have been lost to the sea over the years, even with masses of technological advancements in recent years we still cannot protect ourselves from its awesome power sometimes. Although dated one of the best example of this is the Titanic, supposed to be unsinkable the massive loss of life from the tragedy proved that the sea is and always will be king.
Final Farewell
This painting was created after the sinking to commemorate the loss of life. Titled “Final Farewell” is gives a very melancholy notion of the ship sailing off into the sunset, towards better things that would not come, and that in the end the Titanic’s journey would end with 1,503 people perishing on its maiden voyage. There are not any artistic, photographic works based on the Titanic due to the final resting place of the ship being 3.8km under the water but there are plenty of paintings. Many do not focus on the sea but instead the humanity and the loss of life, as well a fear. Fear is something that I could definitely tap into with my project being based around water.
Another element that ties in with this fear is the sense of randomness of the sea. On the land things can generally be anticipated much better, roads do not usually just breakdown, buildings will not suddenly collapse and for the most part even some of the worst weather can be hidden and protected from. most of the deaths due to bad weather on land are based around water too, floods and tsunamis caused by natural disasters kill more than the rest of the natural disaster itself usually. On the open water this does not apply, the randomness of waves and the sea conditions makes it an incredibly difficult thing to predict. The image above shows some of this, although over dramaticized the different direction of the waves really lend to the notion of randomness and chaos that is going on. The splashes of white from the cresting waves contrasting with the deep, dark water of the troughs makes the painting a very interesting one to look at. This kind of thing can also be captured in photography, a much smaller example of this can be seen in my work from my first shoot.
Today we have the advantage of satellite mapping and forecasts to inform us of the dangers of the sea and what there is lying ahead of us but this is not always enough and cannot always capture and be aware of everything. The photograph above is of a “rogue wave” that crashed over the MS Stolt Surf on the 4th October 1977. Estimated to have reached a height of at least 22m before crashing over the ship and subsequently causing a mass of damage to the ship that left one of the sailors hospitalised. furniture, port holes, electric cables and lights were damaged with the boat beginning to flood. The ship’s engines were at risk from being broken, but thankfully they managed to keep them running, if not then they would have ended up lateral to the waves and if this had happened then the ship could have easily been split in two and it is unlikely that the crew would have survived. These rogue waves were originally considered mythical n nature but recently have managed to be properly studied, this had confirmed that they do exist, occurring in open water, usually at very substantial depths there is no way to predict when these waves will occur because we have no other knowledge about them. Often linked to disappearances of many ships with unknown reasons for disappearance they are terrifying, for many reasons but mainly for the reason that they are truly random.
Even on land people cannot always be safe from the awesome power of the sea Tsunamis are a real danger to many people who live in these disaster prone areas. One of the countries that is often hit by Tsunamis is Japan, in 2011 the country was it by a Tsunami that caused massive destruction to the county’s coastline. Destroying homes, causing the leak of radioactive material from a nuclear power reactor and killing almost 20,000 people this disaster made headlines around the world for a long time. Again being incredibly difficult to predict there was little warning and because of the devastation caused people did not know how to react. The photographer Paolo Pellegrin was one of the first on site to record the devastation and destruction.
His photographs are a very real look at what happened to the country in the wake of this disaster. His shots are all composed the same way, using a wide angle panoramic style the images show an incredible amount of detail due to a very high contrast. This incredibly high contrast further emphasises the destruction of the area by giving the viewer lots of information to take in, this causes them to look for longer and notice even more details. The apocalyptic levels of destruction being caused by a simple wave is immense, the sea is not something to become complacent of. It has the ability to create the kind of destruction that is seen in these photos, at random and without warning. One of the most powerful elements of these images for me is the boats being beached so far inland, these are boats weighing hundreds of tonnes and they have been ripped from moorings and anchors designed to hold them against everything that nature can throw at them and they have simply been plucked with the ease of plucking a hair and dragged inland by the storm surge. Pellegrin’s images lend themselves to this idea of randomness that the water produces, items are strewn everywhere with no order or care. And yet these people called this place their home, it was their environment and now it is a completely different environment that people can no longer live in.
Since the beginning of human civilization we have always had an innate sense of fear surrounding the sea and what it contains. 71% of the earth’s surface is covered in water and so it is has the potential to home so much life, much of which we still do not know about. With a maximum depth of 11km finding all of the different species that call it home is not something that is possible, even with today’s technology we cannot catalogue all of the different species as we would like to. There are species that exist in the oceans that we will likely never come into contact with, there is simply so much space that we would never be able to see it all. If this is true today it understandable why our ancestors had tales of the Kraken taking down ships and giant sharks swallowing people whole.
This sense of mystery and the unknown really lends itself to the subject of environment because even with this fear of the unknown people still made the sea and water their environments. Fishermen and women as well as merchants and explorers use the water to travel around and made a living out of traveling on the water. This often leads to stories about the disappearance of ships under relatively regular circumstances being labelled as mysterious or linked to higher powers or mythical creatures. Even from the days of the Ancient Roman Empire through to more recent times these stories have existed, and have only been exaggerated by sightings of giant squid and unexplained disappearances. These kind of disappearances capture the imagination of the public and artists alike.
Often artists will try and show these events and the mystery and fear that surrounds them, found on old maps these images are not very descriptive but still give a sense of mystery that these creatures can just appear out of nowhere and will attack ships. The water and the sea are their environment and we are intruders in their homes and they do not like it. This sense of the unknown is something that I could look into for my project, I have always been fascinated by mysterious disappearances of ships and people at sea. One of my favourite stories as a child was that of the Mary Celeste, possibly the most famous example of disappearances at sea. It captured my imagination and started my love and fear of disappearances at sea (although I love the sea one of my greatest fears is being stranded at sea out of the sight of land).
The main story can be read about the ship herebut as it is an insanely well known story only some of the details may be new. The fact that the ship disappeared along with its crew in the first place is not that remarkable in the first place, although unexpected it was not an impossibility, but what is so confusing is that the ship was found intact without a soul aboard, looking as if the crew and Captain’s family had just got up one morning and had all just jumped overboard leaving everything behind aside from a single lifeboat. Many different theories exist as to what happened to cause this but no one will ever truly know so theories will stay as just that, theories.
“Without a shadow of warning we found ourselves in the water.”
This hasn’t stopped people from creating art based on what they think could have happened. The sketch above shows one of these theories, it is based on a theory that all of the people on board the ship were on a part of the deck that then collapsed (this website talks about this particular event). There is no real evidence to support this theory but it was popular at the time, the image captures the suddenness and fear with which the crew must have left the ship. Ether through an accident like what the image above depicts but alternatively if they voluntarily left the ship through their own devices but without physically being forced.
Click on this image to go to the artist’s page
This idea of it being a ghost ship is a romantic notion that has gained a lot of association with the ship. The modern painting above really associate this with the ship. The ship is seen just as a silhouette on the water, non-solid it seems to shift in front of your eyes making this seem like a real, ghostly apparition.
Ultimately all of these different pieces of artwork (not just about the Mary Celeste) are driven by a fear of death. Humans are built and coded to survive. The header image shows this very well, the chaos of this attack shows the human resolve to survive that drives us all every day. The man lifting his axe to this creature really shows the heroism of these people and ultimately that the people who work on the sea are often the ones who will have to work the hardest just to stay alive when things go wrong. Out at sea there is no help other than yourself or if you’re lucky enough your fleet, this has even transferred over to the modern day. In the middle of a long ocean voyage for members of the merchant navy on cargo container ships there are often only very basic medical facilities. this can mean that in a major medical emergency like heart attack or ruptured spleen there is often nothing that can be done. The isolation of the sea like this is not something that I could easily represent but I could try. Without being in one of these environments I could not truly represent this kind of mystery of isolation but I could look at doing something surrounding unexplained sea creatures and other mythological creatures and experiences.
In the end it may be scary to imagine what still lies out there in the oceans, undiscovered and undisturbed. But even the creatures that we know about can be pretty terrifying too.
The second photoshoot that I’m planning for this project is still based around water but instead of looking at environmental portraits like last time I am going to be looking at some abstraction and specifically colour. Based on my blog post about colour palettes I am going to be looking at blue/green for several reasons:
The sea water at the moment is way too murky to be able to use it for underwater photography. I have been trying each weekend to see if the water is clear but every time it is the same thing. No visibility at more than ~1m can be found at the moment.
It is too cold to be able to stay in the water for a long time even with a wetsuit on. And after about 2 hours my ability to operate my cameras is severely limited, often photos will be blurry because of me shaking and water movement.
The pool that I have access to is a light blue colour on the inside, this will mean that without placing something into the water for a new background this colour will have to be included.
The final and simplest reason is that water is blue. To represent this underwater environment I cannot completely ignore the colour of the substance when colour is the focus of the shoot.
After using and seeing the results of my first shoot I decided that, although a lot of fun to use, it will not always be practical to use for this project, time constraints and constraints on the number of photos that I could take drove me to look for a waterproof case for my Nikon D5200. I had already been considering buying one but this need for one just gave me the justification to do so.
This is the case with my camera inside. I purchased it from DICAPACthrough their Amazon site. It is nothing special, just a zip-lock seal which is rolled down to seal and held with velcro. It allows be to use a camera which is much more versatile underwater or in conditions where the camera may become very wet. I plan on using this for the shoot but if the conditions permit I might try using my underwater film camera.
The main idea for this shoot is to have a model wearing make up be under the water or interacting with the water. to make the images even more surreal I am going to be using my male friend as the model, I will be borrowing the makeup and makeup skill of some of my female friends. I will be aiming to use blue/green coloured make up to go with the background and hopefully have a slightly matching color pallette. I am not sure what the images will turn out like but I am excited to see and try.
While spending some time just browsing YouTube I came across a video that caught my attention and I thought that it would be very helpful to my photography work. It is by a photographer called Ted Forbes, he produces lots of very informative YouTube videos about photography and watching this video really made me look back on my own work and think about what worked, what didn’t and why.
In my previous photography work something that I have neglected to give enough thought to is the colours of my photography, this is not so much based on ignoring the bright, vibrancy of the colours that I have taken photos of but instead the matching of the colours in the image and how they work with/against each other to make it. I’m slightly ashamed to admit it but as I now look back on my previous work this is not something that I have even properly considered before. As I do look back to some of my favourite work of mine I do start to notice this connection of colours that I did not plan most of the time but which did, for the most part, work.
This is one of my favourite images that I produced from my AS work. Although now, with a more critical eye I can pick out a lot of issues and negatives to it, it still works well to elaborate my point. The colour pallet used in this image is a very simple one; black, whites and reds. But as was touched on in the video sometimes the best photos do not have the brightest, or most vibrant colours. The image above works because of this, there is an almost monochrome effect to the image with the colours of the red from the guitar just bringing interest to the image. The reds are not even bright or vibrant, they are relatively plain but complemented with the rest of the colours in the image this works very well.
Using the Colour tool that he suggested I decided to look at the colour pallet of one of the images that I took when I went out diving. More specifically I looked at the water (and sky) in the image. I selected the 5 main colours that make up the water in this image and how they flowed between one another. Being relatively dull colours they do not leap out at you on their own let alone inside the image with each other. They do however mix very well together, by looking just at the water in the image you can see this well. The reflections and shadows of the rocks and the reflection of the blank white sky (that’s how it looked to the naked eye too) are all mixed together by the waves in this image giving a real mix of these very similar colours that the film (Kodak Ultra Max 400) captured very well.
Photographer: Brooks Sterling
The way that waves have the ability to mix colours so well, blending with reflections and waves really makes it an interesting subject to shoot. Even when shot in black and white there is still a great degree of interest shown to the images. The way that the light bounces off the water in all different directions due to the smallest, most unpredictable ripples and from random positions means that water is something that always has some higher degree of interest to it than a plain sky or uninteresting background, sometimes making the water in an image more impressive than the intended subject.
Photographer: Roni Horn [1999]For some like Roni Horn the water is the subject and the colors are very important. The at first seemingly dull images just need to be looked at for longer. When each square inch of the image is looked over with care as intended more springs out than expected. The outline of something being reflected in the image above is apparent but what the object is, is cast into doubt. This particular piece of reflection stands out because it is not following on the trend of the colour palette of the rest of the image. The colour palette that I have done below for the image shows the regular colour palette of the very dark blues and black being contrasted by this very bright white with a tinge of blue to it. It really stands out and draws attention to the specific part of the reflection. This can also be seen in the right of the image but as it is a much darker shade of with (grey) it fits in with the image much better than the very bright white.
These techniques have inspired me to do a shoot based around this and incorporating water into it. I will detail the plan for this shoot in another blog post.
Water is the building block of life, it is essential to the survival of all life on earth. All living organisms are made up of water in their cells, this water allows them to hold shape, allows chemical reactions to occur and in the makes up about 70% of mammal’s and 80% of fish’s body mass. Because of its importance it is something that has been intensely studied. Much of the information on this page is not that relevant to artistic work but I will list off some specific points about water and its properties and will look at a few in-depth.
Modern measurements are based on water: 1 cubic meter of water weighs 1 tonne, 1 liter of water weighs one kilogram, 1cm³ of water weighs 1 gram, the boiling point of water is 100°C, its melting point 0°C and it takes 1 calorie being burnt to raise the temperature of a liter of water by 1°C.
71% of the earth’s surface is water and 95.5% of that is salt water.
It is the largest single environment on earth and contains all of the top 10 largest animals alive today.
Each molecule is made up of three atoms. Hydrogen is the most abundant atom in the universe and the third is Oxygen.
“Light entering or exiting a water surface is bent byrefraction. Theindex of refractionfor water is 4/3, implying that light travels 3/4 as fast in water as it does in vacuum.”[1]
Water takes a lot of energy to go from a liquid state into a gaseous state. This is called having a high latent heat of vaporization. This keeps water at much the same temperature all of the time and means that it is a stable habitat for organisms like fish, plankton and some mammals.
For all animals that have lungs it is important for them to have moisture on the inside of their lungs otherwise they would not be able to take in Oxygen. Oxygen from the air has to be dissolved into a very thin layer of water coating the inside of lungs so that the Oxygen can get into the bloodstream.
Excess water intake can kill someone. About 6 liters taken in quickly can kill an adult male. Water intoxication as it is known causes cells in the brain to swell and burst, often being fatal if it has got this bad.
Drowning is incredibly easy and needs a terrifyingly small amount of water. As a lifeguard my self this is something that I am incredibly aware of, we need water to survive but it can also kill us so easily.
Refraction is something that could be very useful for my project. There are an immense number of different ways that you can use refraction of water artistically. The image above shows one of these examples, refraction of the light that is reflected of the background has passed through the water and because of the double curve of the glasses and the water the images have been flipped and all three are different due to the relative angle of the viewer to the background and the glass. This is really interesting and something that I could look at in more detail.
One of the typical uses of refraction in photography is to show a clear image that cannot be seen in the background. The example above shows this really well. The background cannot be seen clearly, it is simply a yellow blob. But when you look at the droplet of water that is in focus the background is now visible. Brought forward and flipped the spherical shape has created this new version of the flower, almost trapping inside this droplet of water and seemingly preserving it. The bonds that hold water together are called hydrogen bonds and from between the hydrogen atoms, these bonds are not very strong but when in a body of water so many of these bonds form that they become a relatively strong bond, this is what creates surface tension and holds water molecules together to form droplets like the ones above. This allows for these kind of photographs to be taken.
One other use of refraction is in this kind of photography. Half-and-half photographs in water show this effect very clearly, the distorted effect of the light entering at different speed and angle make the two halves of this duck look like they are separated, alternatively the bottom half of the image looks like it is bigger or closer than the other part, I see quite a few different artistic uses of this, it can give some really surreal effects.
This idea is something that came to me from a video that I saw on youtube. In the video a group leave a disposable camera in public areas with a note that says to take a photograph with it. The video is from 2011 but still has the same connotations as it did then.
Although it is not the specific intention of the people who did this they are giving an unusual look at the environment. The camera that the people are using is the same. The location that the photos are taken in is the same. The only real difference is the person who frames up and takes the photograph, it shows how different people all see the world differently. This concept is something that I am keen to investigate further. I would not need to copy the project but I likely would end up doing that for one of the shoots. Other than that I could give people in the same family a camera and have them take a set number of exposures each. This would give an interesting insight into the different way that family members would see their family and home environment. Similarly, looking at different people in certain clubs and social groups could be interesting, I could use the rowing club members for this, using my own photographs and images that they would take could give an impression of the club from many different angles and personalities. Again looking at how individual personalities interpret the same environment.
An interesting possible development on this same vein would be to compare photographs taken by someone who is considered an “insider” of a certain group and someone who is an “outsider” of that same group. This would probably work best by using ether two photography students to compare or two non-photographers so that the images do not differ too much in quality of framing, lighting ect…
Based on my first shoot I have identified a theme that I am considering pursuing further. Water. Water is something that is an integral part of all environments, civisialiations are based around water, in the desert the only places that permanent communities are set up are are near to water. 40% of humanity live near a coast line [1] and throughout the rest of the population they almost all live near to some source of water. Human beings need water to be able to survive and so it is an essential piece of our environment. Living on a small island as I do my life is also more connected to the water than most people would be, I have spent my whole life around the sea, I feel lost if I am too far away from the coast. The world and places that I have visited seem incredibly far away and distant from other civilization unless they are near to the coast. It is incredibly difficult to explain but I feel isolated and alone if I am a distance from the coast, even if there are people all around me I feel like the community (village, town, ect…) are isolated and alone, unless the are near to the sea. There is a great degree of comfort that I gain from being near to the sea, this is probably linked to my family history, my Grandfather on my mother’s side was a fisherman and his father before him, all the way back for a long time. My mother also had these close links to the sea and drove me to this with a lot of my childhood being spent at the beach and out on the water.
There are many photographers that have used water as a part of their work. Although usually not the main feature there are some like Tanja Deman whose work has the water as a highly integral part of it. Her project titled “Saltwater” looks at the underwater environment is a kind of activism in response to the threat of oil companies wanting to start drilling in this coastal area. This would have been terrible for the environment due to possible oil spills and other contamination from the general process of creating these rigs and housing the crews. Her works usually have some focus on structures; buildings and natural structures and how humans interact with them. A particular connection is felt between her and the sea, in an interview with Süeddeutsche Magazine Deman talks about how closely connected she is with the water, she says that
“the sea has become part of my personality”
and talks about how the people who have lived in the same place as her for over 1700 years have their whole lives based around the sea; fishing and tourism being the main industries in the area make the connection between these people and the sea one of the most powerful connections. This is something that I was trying to go for with the first shoot that I did but it did not properly work out that way, it was difficult to show that kind of raw connection between people and the sea without taking images over a much longer time frame. This kind of time frame is not available to me for this project so I’m going to have to look at another way to explore the water.
Instead I’m going to look at trying some more abstract methods and concepts for representing water as an environment. Looking into the use of colour under the water would be a good way to study this.
At the weekend I followed through with my shoot plan that I had written. As I had expected it was too rough for the models to be able to surf, so instead they decided to go spearfishing. This limited the kind of photographs that I could take but I went out nonetheless. It was relatively rough and generally the weather was not very good so I used the ISO 400 film which would allow me to use a faster shutter speed to try and overcome some of the movement of the waves. Only having 3 different shutter speeds on the camera meant that it was a challenge in some of the rougher conditions and meant that I was nervous about capturing movement but it worked relatively well.
Out of 24 exposures that were meant to be on the roll of film I managed to get 26 images with one that was lost due to me making a mistake loading the film at the start. As this was my first time using the camera I did not expect the result to be spectacular and when I got the images back there were pretty much what I expected. They were not bad images but many of them had water spots on the lens that I did not think about, and although they are well exposed the lack of any direct sunlight does detract from the images a little.
The completely grey sky does fit well to help show how cold it was on that day, it makes the images feel very cold and chilly as it was that day. The high winds that day coupled with the cold sea temperatures made it very hard to take photographs, we could only stay in the water for about an hour and three quarters due to this and the tide so the area that we were in was limited and meant that It was difficult for me to take a range of different photos of different scenes. The contact sheet above shows 12 of the photos that came out from the shoot, they all have a similar range of relatively dull colours, the rocks did a fantastic job of breaking apart the monotony of the sky and giving the images some more interest. Although lacking in artistic merit the shoot did give me some ideas for where I could explore next. Water. Some of the images that I have taken, although the intended subject is uninteresting, have some very nice images of the water. Capturing the reflection of the rocks and the small, choppy waves gave some very interesting textures to the images. This is definitely something that I will continue looking at.
In addition to using film I also used my digital camera to take photos of the two of them as they were getting ready in the carpark above the beach and of them walking down. These images are interesting but they are still lacking in artistic merit and although they do show a progression of the guys getting ready leading up to the other photographs many of them are uninteresting from a photographic perspective even if humorous. They are insider photographs because the pair are known to me quite well, because of this the images have more of a connection to me than they would if I did not know the two. Some of them are shown in the gallery below.
The second Photoshop task that we have been set is to create a collage by using different image layers to create a whole new image. There are countless artists who have done this but the one that we looked at was Tanja Deman. Her images are collections of several different images, compiled together to form these surrealist images of out of this world scenes. Some of Her photos are black and white and this adds to the sense of mystery and intrigue in these images. High contrast allows the images to be easily seen, the different elements are easily identifiable which is important for these images, all of the different layers have been placed there for a reason and so Deman wants to make sure that they are very visible and identifiable. Her images are a mix between the look of a perfectly Photoshopped image with perfect blending or looking more like a collage made by hand. For these ones colour is used, they are often bright which really makes them stand out and catch the eye of the viewer.
My own interpretation of this image was a very simple one to test my own skills if nothing else. I decided to start with an image that I had taken of the same window that I used for my previous photoshop task (this photo was also 35mm film). And attempted to layer a photo some water over the flat glass of the window to make it look like a small pool inside of a window.
Original Image
The first attempt that I made at creating this is shown below, the photograph of the sea is shown below, I just used simple layer masking to add the water into the image and then changed the opacity to allow some of the colours from the sunset to pronounce through. This worked but not very well, the waves don’t fit very well into the scene, there was a shadow from the building that ended up on the waves. Because of this I am going to attempt another version of this, using the same base and layer image
First Attempt
Colour Final
B&W Final
My next experiment in this task was made slightly differently, I raised the edge of the water to remove the black layer, I also tried to make it a smoother transition. I also chose not to fade through the reflection colour, leaving it as it naturally was, as there was already a tint to the water. I prefer this because the water look more like it is three dimensional, this was made more obvious by me using a different part of the underlying image with more going on in it. The shadow on the bottom left of the image was put in my me using the burn tool, it just added more of a frame to the image, and follows along with the shape of the window. This is one feature of the final photograph that I really like despite how small of a feature it is, it just adds some blending to the waves to help them link into the rest of the photograph. My favourite final image is definitely the black and white one though. I decided to try wit the black and white image because it is one of the methods that Deman uses for her images. I also added additional contrast layer masks to the image to bring out the sky, buildings and water separately. This really helped to make the sky stand out a lot as it has these impressive streaks from the clouds through it that are accentuated by the grain of the film.
This screenshot above shows the set up at the end of the process, you can see on the right-hand side the different layers that I had on for this photograph. It was a relatively simple set up but worked very well in the end for the final result. I do like this collage method and the slightly abstract nature of the photographs that it produces.
