First ideas for the future of st helier project

I got the inspiration for my project to have this idea of peeling back parts of images to reveal an old-style wallpaper. Was when we were on location on the building sites, in which we walked into a house that was midway through being knocked down in which all of the walls had been ripped out. As I walked through the house i came to a room which  i could only assume would have been a child bedroom, in which the only thing remaining was a small strip of an animation themed wallpaper, which gave me the idea to have this sort of torn out effect to reveal an old fashion wallpaper.

I first experiment with this idea, from using an image of a finance building down at the waterfront, I have the idea to use the wallpaper the would stereo-typically see in a grandparent house; As the connotation that many people have to their grandparents is that they are very warm, opening and loving, whereas in contrast to the finance industry in Jersey, which has been given the reputation of being very harsh, cold and negative. so I thought that by placing the two very opposite messages to get would create a nice juxtaposition.

Lewis Bush Response Shoot

For this post I wanted to focus on a response to the photographer Lewis Bush, by doing this I found that it would allow me to have a broader understanding regarding how compositions of the town could be taken, and how my photos could be interpreted. Bush’s focuses mainly are based around the development and image of the urban areas around him, and so the core focus from much of his works tend to be a maze like structure of particular buildings. I found certain interests in his pattern like abstract presentations of the financial building which can be seen below: To produce the outcomes desired I would have to make a shoot response and use software such as Photoshop to overlap imagery to create a maze like formation of the financial sector. Firstly I would have to spend some time around the finance area photographing the structure and symmetry present throughout the design of the building. These are my response photos to Lewis Bush’s work: Once done with the shoot I moved onto Photoshop to overlap the images that I wanted to see merged together. I chose to use Photoshop because of the variety of tools it provided me with that could capture and produce the outcome desired. This is my process of coming out with my final designs: After I had finished experimenting with my images I decided on five of the pictures that I thought had best represented the response shoot regarding Lewis Bush’s style of work. These are my five favorite pieces:

Experimenting with colour and black and white

By turning this image into black and white I think that it is the best outcome that i have created as it will create the greatest contrast with the wallpaper that I plan to edit in. So will help the design to stand out best, I think that I will do this for most of the images within this project.

I don’t plan to use this image again as I think that the colour of the sky is very unnatural and I dont like the way that it looks with the rest of the image

Out of the two colour designs that I have created I think it is the one that I plan to develop further. As I feel that the colour scheme within this image has more of a neutral colour palette which I think when combined with the wallpaper will look better.

The editing process

The first thing that I do when editing my photos is turn them into black and white this makes the contrast between the original phot and the wallpaper that I am going to edit in greter and heps the wallpaper to stand out more if the wallapper is a light colour and may not be seen at first.      I then select the quick selection tool and Choose the area where I want the wallpaper to come through. Then I cut out the area. 

Then add a new layer and place in under the original image, this allows the original image to stay on top and the image which is going to be added in to be placed anywhere underneath  

This is what the final image will look like