Cropping
My main aim when cropping my images was to ensure the focus was on whatever the important subject was in the image so as to draw the viewers attention to it.
I took the same image and cropped it into to create 3 different versions that focused on different aspects of the original image. The top two images demonstrate the buildings abstract structure whereas the bottom image focuses on the detail of the window and what is inside.
I also explored changing the image into a negative to see what tones would be emphasized. In this edit, the cracks of the walls stood out.
Colour
For this image, I first increased saturation to bring out the luminosity caused by the blue blur of the bar just outside the right side of the image. The green and blues on the left and right side of the photo puts focus on the man wearing the neon jacket in the centre. I cropped this image into a square so as to present the lined architecture that spirals into the subject in the centre.
Changing the hue of the photos gave a more abstract feeling where in the first image I desaturated it and increased contrast a small amount to give a softer effect for the theme of hanging out laundry in everyday life. In contrast, the second image has an increased saturation to represent the psychedelic theme of alcohol and other substances that appear.
Montage
Using a selection of images in colour, I cut up sections of scaffolding from Convent Court, the tower block across the road from St Thomas’s Church and placed them over the church itself. The contrast in colour reflects the two important and different aspects of the future of St Helier, construction and religion.