My personal project: skylines and architecture
My mind map of ideas
research: the work of other photographers
I have been looking at skylines and architectural photography because this is what I am thinking of doing for my personal project I have chose this type of photography because I really like taking pictures of buildings, I feel that I will be able to get some really good photos and skylines when I visit Leeds, London and Barcelona in September. the above pictures really inspire me because I like the use of the way the shot has been composed especially on the tenth picture, one of the building is in suspense and towers over every building. I also really like the use of the light trails in the 3rd picture, I will try to imitate it into my work. During the summer I am going to go out around town and take pictures of the architectural designs and then also I will photograph the skyline of Liverpool using my DSLR cannon this will allow me to take very high quality photographs I will go out at different times each week and then I will also try to go to Manchester to take photos of that skyline and finally I am going on holiday so will be able to get even more famous skylines this will allow me to develop my personal project even further and improve my overall grade
Inspiration from Barcelona
The above images are where I'm thinking of visiting when I go to Barcelona.
The top places to visit: Barcelona
mind map of places in Barcelona
photographs I am going to take this week
This week I am going to go to Liverpool city centre and travel to places like St. Georges hall and Liverpool one because I will be able to take pictures of the mariot hotel and also get a really good landscape photo of the skyline of Liverpool. I will go to town with my DSLR cannon camera on the weekend, I have checked the weather and its supposed to be sunny so I will be able to get pictures with natural lighing which in my opinion is the best type of lighting, I will take multiple pictures from all different angles so that I have a vast variety of different images to work from when I edit them in photoshop. when i take pictures I will focus on things like aperture, shutter speed and the lighting most of all.
The work of other photographers:Dave Wood
Background information: Dave wood
Dave wood is a photographer who is based in London, Liverpool and Manchester he is a landscape photographer who primarily takes pictures of waterfronts and skylines. Dave wood is also a journalist and does internal design, he has a twitter page where he posts all of his pictures which he has taken, I can see they all have very atmospheric lighting. he focuses on dawn and dusk pictures. he was born in Liverpool.
My initial raw images
My edited images
The above pictures where taken on the waterfront of Liverpool with my DSLR cannon camera with a 55m lens. I have taken these images to see if they project I have chosen is right for me and in my opinion i think that it has went very well so I am going to continue with this as my personal project and I am also going to go out again this weekend and take some more pictures to improve my website further. I have then edited them in adobe Photoshop to improve the saturation and I have also used the double exposure on one of my photographs, this can be achieved naturally by messing around with aperture and shutter speed but I didn't have enough time to do that so instead edited them in Photoshop.