When editing this image I simply increased the saturation of the blue background as well as adjusting the levels and contrast to make the straight lines and angles of the black and white building stand out more in the foreground against the simple blue background.
I intended to keep the security camera as the main focus of the image but I didn’t want the image to become boring and grey, so I over-saturated the green paint stripes in the background and also the small red light at the bottom of the image. This gave an otherwise grey-tinted image some pops of colour and made it seem more modern and urban.
This turned out to be my favourite image as I love the composition and placing of the bins and graffiti in the centre. I also edited the picture so that the blue of the doors became more vibrant and bright, and I also made the orange of the wall a little more vibrant as well, as blue and orange are contrasting colours.
This is quite possibly my second favourite picture from this shoot as I feel that it really stays within the theme of urban landscape, as it takes a banal and everyday sight, cigarettes left on the ground, and finds the beauty in this image. I adjusted the levels of this image to increase the highlights in the water’s reflection, as well as increase the yellow-orange colours to stand out more vibrant against the black tarmac.
Analysis-
Overall I feel that the first four images all fit well within the theme and explored aspects of urban landscape photography, as well as working well with each other and having similar colour palettes and lighting. However, the last image finished by feeling anomalous and not very cohesive with the rest of my final images. This is why I have decided to exclude it from my final selection, reducing my image count from 5 to 4, but I have shown it and my brief analysis of it below, just to demonstrate why I did not include it.
With this picture I used photo filters on Photoshop to make the lamp’s light as yellow-tinted as possible while still keeping the colours of the rest of the image. I feel that this also contributed to the grain of the image, which was unintended but I believe it works well.
