Finished Halo

I’ve finished my Halo poster. I’ve improved it a lot, I changed the colour, blurred the building and aircraft, added suitable aircraft and all together made the image so much better. I really didn’t like it before but I’m slightly warming to it. It’s probably one of the worst pieces that I’ve done, because it’s something I generally don’t do.

I think if we did more of these, I would get the idea and improve more each time, but considering it’s my first try at it, it’s not overall that bad, it could be worse. I kind of left this because I thought it would be quite quick to do so it’s thought me to not underestimate things otherwise in the future I might end up not having enough time to do certain things.

The figure looks more dominate in the image not that I’ve created some depth of field by using the Gaussian blur. I still don’t think it’s as good as it could be, but at the moment I can’t do anything more on it. 

Final Quad Images

Chris gave me the idea to rotate my motorway images to make it look quite abstract and they definitely look different and quite unusual. I think it’s definitely a step up from the previous images as I knew they were a predictable idea and I did want to recreate some different. Even though I do really like some of the original images this is a different approach to the idea.

 

I think if I was going to do this project differently I would have focused more on the people side instead of traffic, because I love the effect that people can create within slow shutter speeds. But even so I like the images that I’ve produced because they’ve different to what I would usually produce. I made them all square and added a white border to make them look finished and complete.

Halo - Photoshopping

I’ve started to put together my Halo using photoshop, what I’ve done so far isn’t particularly good and it can definitely be improved but I just need a little help to work photoshop with certain things. I think at the moment it all just looks added on and there’s just no depth to it at all, this is something that I can change to the image, an something that I will. Overall it looks a little dull and the composition doesn’t look brillant so I’m going to have to readjust a few things there aswell.

I’ve found this part of the assignment quite difficult because I didn’t think it would be hard to photoshop it all together but it’s definitely needs a lot of time and hard work put in to make the image look good, and because I’m not an expert at photoshop I’ve had to learn a few new things along the way. But it’s always good to learn new techniques.

Motorway Shutter Speeds

I produced slower shutter speed images over the motorway. Even thought this is a predictable idea, I still like the outcome. I think by starting with the most predictable idea will help me develop into more unpredictable views on the matter. You have to start somewhere, and I never know I could work with these images in some way, but make them looking different in some way.

With these images I was working with shutter priority, ranging from 2.5 sec up to 30 seconds. I think the range of the shutter can really make the images look different from really long line to shorter ones.  I think the only way to find the correct exposure for yourself is to experiment. Overall the images I produced are a good view of the results you can produce of this technique.