unedited:

In the original image I took, the image above, I used the ‘close up’ setting on the camera. The image is good quality however, quite boring.

editing:

I made this image black and white. I increased the highlights and ‘whites’ to emphasise the effect of using the flash when taking this image.

outcome:

PLASTICS

studio shoot of plastics and rubbish

• plastic bottles, cans, plastic containers
• sea glass
• plastic buttons

Although I took around 80 images for this photoshoot, some of them turned out as not what I wanted, too blurry or dark, so i ended up with around 60. Some I took in the school studio; using the infinity board and experimenting with different lighting. Others were taken at home. I created my own photoshoot at home, improvising with backgrounds. I used a small stool as a surface to put the objects on, however, this is very relevant to vanitas style paintings and photographs as stools and wooden stools were used in the majority of them.

Contact Sheet:

The outcome of the images I chose to edit in Lightroom:

This photo is bland but I like the tones to the image.

I wanted to give the image a blurred look. I achieved this by duplicating 3 layers of the same image and then editing the opacity of each later. After I got them to the opacity I wanted them at, I moved each layer around to this chosen position.

outcome:

In the next few images I used a mixture of my own images and photos I found of factories and pollution on the internet and made some montages:

Using photoshop I montaged my own image with the one from the internet and changing the opacity to make sure the factory was visible through the second image however I felt like it was missing something and I wanted to add an aspect of nature to show what this pollution was damaging.

I added my image of apple trees to the smoke/emissions from the factory to represent what the air pollution is damaging and kept the image in black and white to represent the issue in a way that portrays air pollution in a negative light.

Similar to George Marazakis’ image I laid out my image in a similar format with similar spacing. For example we both have a rocky foreground and man made buildings/factories further back with the cloudy sky as the background. However in George Marazakis’ image he has fog in front of the factory whereas in my image in front of the factory is rocks giving the similar effect of the factory being far away and behind something.

Both images have similar lighting due to them both being taken using natural lighting during the day and they both have the same focal point being on the industrial buildings. The buildings are similar shapes allowing them to look similar such as the tall towers and ‘factory like’ look.

In my opinion I didn’t grasp the same feeling in my image as in the one created by George Marazakis as his image is foreboding and mysterious whereas mine is very straight to the point. However I think this is down to the fact that his image was taken on a foggy day whereas mine was captured on a moderately clear day.

Photoshop

The kaleidoscope method:

outcome:

From my shoot I chose which images I liked the best and were the most successful outcomes and flagged the ones i wanted to keep with the P key and the ones I didn’t want with the X key and then filtered them out.

To create this look I used the website Art Steps

shoot 1:

shoot 2: