My first attempt of the task:
I am not sure what I think of this because of the photo and the fact that the bunker in the foreground is too big to put in one circle.
Then I developed my ideas and made these:
The above slide shows me using the content aware fill to remove some of the larger imperfections.
i chose this photo because the main subjects (the ends of the piers) are small enough to fit in a circle and i can get the sun and the reflection in it to.
After experimenting with just using a solid black layer and the circles I will continue to experiment using different coloured layers, different circle arrangements, different opacity of the layers and using previously edited photographs for different effects.
Solid Colour
Solid Colour and New Arrangement
Solid Colour and New Arrangement
Above are all my final outcomes for the experiments I have produced. I feel they have worked well and I have been able to find different ways to arrange my circle holes and also the effects of using different colours as the solid colour.
Using a Different Opacity
Using a Previously Edited Image, Different Opacity
These are more of my final outcomes for other experiments that I produced, I feel these I my most successful as I think they show a range of experiments by using my previously edited photographs and also the different opacity of the solid layers.
For this experiment I will be exploring using layers as layer masks to reveal and conceal areas of my photographs and exploring different ways to do this.
The process to create my final image was relatively simple to complete and is now something I can use more often in my work. I reduced the opacity in a way which the ‘concealed’ area of the photo became visible, but ensuring the ‘revealed’ was more prominent and vibrant to extenuate the colour of the pipes. If I was to do this exercise again I would have used a photo with more colour in order to create more contrast between the dark ‘concealed’ areas and the bright ‘revealed’ areas. I ‘revealed’ the area with the sharpest focus and most depth, for instance the bottom left hand corner had detailed rusting and was displayed well in the natural lighting. The texture of the picture varied between rust and cooper residue, which adds a sense disorganization which fits well with my ‘revealed’ circles because they displayed the areas where most is going on, not the tidier areas of negative space in the background. The pipes are all in 3D form, this adds more depth to the photo with shadowing as displayed in the bottom ‘revealed’ circles.
About Ralph Eugene Meatyard:
Ralph Eugene Meatyard lived in Lexington, Kentucky, where he made his living as an optician while creating an impressive and enigmatic body of photographs. Meatyard’s work spanned many genres and experimented with new means of expression, from dreamlike portraits—often set in abandoned places—to multiple exposures, motion-blur, and other methods of photographic abstraction. He also collaborated with his friend Wendell Berry on the book The Unforeseen Wilderness , for which Meatyard contributed photographs of Kentucky’s Red River Gorge.
My photos :
My edited work:
I took some of the photos which I thought could be used in inspiration of Eugene, and put a black and white filter on them. I then used the blur option until I got my desired look.
Tonality: Contrast
A curve, in image editing, is a remapping of image tonality, as a way to emphasise colours or tone in a picture.
Applying a curve to all channels of an image typically change the brightness. Light parts of an image can become lighter while dark parts of an image become darker, increasing the contrast in a composition.
Below I have shown examples of images in their original form as well as with two examples of the same image with different levels of contrast.
As displayed in these images, the higher the contrast the more dramatic the image. I took these frames of light reflecting on water at night to create natural contrast before the editing process to show how slight changes to the tonality of an image can drastically change how an image appears.
I could have further increased the curve of these images or perhaps even decreased it to give the images less contrast, however I felt it was most effective for these specific images to increase the curve sensibly to create realistic images rather than obviously edited ones.
THE PROCESS:
In order to create this final piece I followed the instructions provided to me in order to achieve this conceal/reveal image which is composed of a photo which has a panel layer added to it. Then using the brush tool, i was able to achieve varying sizes of revealing circles that show the original photo. The final outcome is very unique and brings up multiple questions for the viewer of the image.
ANALYSIS:
This is the final image which I produced from the conceal/reveal task. As the title suggests, much of the image is concealed with a black panel layer. It puts many ideas into the head of the viewer. What is hidden behind the black? Why did they choose to only show certain parts of the image? The revealed parts of the image all allude to different things. I chose to reveal the circular structure, central in the image because i felt that this would create a sense of pattern and unity within the image. It is the area of the image which draws the most attention. I kept the circles in a linear pattern as this creates flow and movement within the image. I did not want to decrease the opacity of the black panel as I wanted to retain that question in the viewers mind of, what is behind the concealed parts?
Coming through the glass is a very soft and diffused light which varies in intensity in different parts of the image, the bottom left hand corner being more strong and the top right more soft. The composition in this image is very simple and is purely made up of strong, symmetrical, repeating lines that come towards a singular point central in the image. There is a lot of geometrical patters that play together to create a very harmonious photo. The co lour range of this image is fairly simple, being mostly composed of soft grays, blacks and subtle blues. The photo has a warm hue to it as can be seen in the lighter areas of the image. The photo lacks any sort of foreground, mid ground or background therefore it is quite flat and 2D.
In order to take this image, I zoomed in, decreasing the field of view and increasing the focal length as it was quite far up and could not be seen clearly from a stationary position. I kept the ISO fairly low, at 400, as it was a bright day and i wanted to avoid overexposing the image. I used auto focus whilst taking this image as it is very flat and did not require much attention to get it in focus. I used a fairly low shutter speed due to the strong light coming through the glass, which prevented the image from becoming overexposed.
Albert’s work primarily focused on the idea of making ordinary items into extraordinary pieces of photography. The majority of his notable work is in black and white giving a sense of drama to his pieces. Albert also published the well known book “The World is Beautiful” which documented his work focusing on subjects such as industrial subjects, mass produced items and natural forms. His work often features a small aperture allowing for the majority of the image to be in focus, creating a objective look to his photo’s.
This particular photo utilizes an organic subject as the photo includes rows of trees. The photo features a small aperture however due to the fog in the photo it gives the appearance of depth of field. It features strong contrasting tones between the thick white fog and the almost black trees.
Response:
Personal Favorite Images:
Final Choice: 
this image above contains three of my photographs that i edited with photoshop by adjusting the threshold of each of them.
This photograph is about a pink rose bush with a rose in the middle which is sharply focused and the background is mostly the green part of the bush alongside with the clear blue sky background, it was taken using the AV settings on the camera so that it focuses on the rose and the background is unfocused.
After using the threshold adjustment i put the threshold on almost midway to the left so that only the focused part which is the flower is white and the background is black.
this photograph above was taken indoors using a phones camera and the natural light from the window was used to create the shadows around the paper, the paper was made into a zigzag shape by hand to create that shadow effect.
the photo was already edited by phone quick photo editing, then it was downloaded on the computer and was edited with photoshop in which the threshold was adjusted to create an effect in which the shadows where black and the paper is white.