Manmade #1 Work Diary

Within this shoot I went to London to shoot conventional manmade objects, in this shoot i went back to Westmister/South Bank to shoot well known manmade buildings like Big Ben, Parliament and The London Eye. I found this shoot a bit boring and quite limiting because it had been done so many times before therefore it was hard to think outside of the box when so much has already been done with it thats hard not replicate. I think this shoot went quite well anyway, and I think with my use of multiple imagery, the shoot cam out better. I also used overlay within this shoot which i think was beneficial and has made me think that I want to use it within my exam. Within this shoot I used a lot of depth and wide angle lens to make it seem like the buildings were massive.

In this image i used a wide angle lens as it emphasises how big the buildings of London went a long. i took this image from across the river thames, this image almost comes across like a city scape. I used overlay in this image to experiment with it and i really liked the outcome as I think it made the image seem less boring. This picture has been taken so many times over before by other people, that by using the overlay I think it changes the image slightly. I really like the  dull sky within this image because when i turned the curves up the building got slightly brighter, and i believe this makes it stand out.

In this image I took various pictures from under the London eye because for me the London eye screams manmade within its bold big white bars which are noticeable from all over central London. I selected only 3 of the images for this multiple imagery piece as I felt that if i used anymore the picture would become boring as it would seem repetitive. I turned the levels down within this picture and the curves up, making the London eye seem dark whilst still managing for it to stand out, by doing this I achieved what I said I wanted to in my last work diary, I made London buildings seem very dark and dreary coloured.

Progression

By the time of my next shoot I will be on holiday in Tunisia so i am going to shoot an old decaying colosseum as I want to carry on with the idea of manmade and how dull the colours were on something so aged were still the exact same back then. By doing this shoot I feel like I will be revisiting decay also as the colosseum will be eroding. I am going to continue with multiple imagery for my next shoot however i think i will expand the size of my grids, by doing something so big that I can access completely (unlike Parliament) I can take pictures from a lot of different angles and also from the inside.