Averaged Portrait

The objective of this assignment was to take multiple photos of a friend and compile them together in Photoshop to create an unconventional portrait. I took the photo in Leicester City Centre in an alleyway, where it showed off the rough and rundown aspect of Leicestershire that is being hidden from public to create the perfect view of Leicester to attract more people.

I enjoy the urban theme behind the image with the graffiti and the contrast between my friend and the vibrant orange background. I find my friends face fits perfectly with how people would feel about the poorer areas of Leicester, which is a disgusted look.

To create the image I took roughly 10 photos of my friend moving his head side to side, to create this unique horrific look of many heads. I found it worked well, as it was only the head moving without the body, which added to the creepiness. I then used a still photo of him as the main back photo and overlapped that with the other images on a transparency of 25%. I increased the contrast and levels to show more facial features and make the colours stand out noticeable to someone who took a quick glance at it.

Assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/?s=averaged&post_type=stufftodo

Create a silly movie poster

The assignment brief stated to make an existing movie poster funny, which is what I have created using a comedy/action movie as inspiration. To create the funny side the assignment asked for, I have incorporated the Disney/Pixar’s Up house to add colour to the poster, as well as a toy water gun and a comedic bang flag for guns. The cowboy hat made the characters unique, as I made them the same guys, so they both had different personalities, it also related to Toy Story, as I drew a subliminal Andy on the bottom of Will Ferrell’s shoe, which was another pixar movie incorporated into the poster. I also incorporated a DeLorean and the horror character IT, as they’re from different movies, which can also relate to Steven Spielberg’s new movie,  Ready Player One, as he incorporates a tone of characters from movies and games together in one movie which I am excited to go to see.

This was the original movie poster of which I added and manipulated aspects to give it a more comedic value. As you can see the movie was originally called “The Other Guys” however to make it funny and unique I made it “The Same Guys” as well as using one actors face as both of theirs.

To create the font of the “same” I used a site called DaFont.com, which helped get similar text that made it difficult to tell if it was fake, as well as duplicating the name Will Ferrell twice to make it more believable that its the same guy.

 

 

 

 

 

Assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/create-a-silly-movie-poster/

Penguins

The aim for this assignment was to create a motivational photo which consisted of the image being black and white with one section of the photo of your choice being in colour. I felt this photo I took of a soldiers gun and helmet the strongest and most motivational, as it expresses war, conflict and death.  I enjoy the method that was used in the assignment brief to draw the attention to the rifle was to make the the area surrounding my main object black and white, and leave the colour of the rifle in, which makes the photo unique and captivating.

This photo was taken with an aperture around f16, so the foreground was blurred out, again another technique of drawing all the attention towards the rifle. I had the shutter speed on 1/1000 so that I got a clean RAW quality photo, which shows all of the objects details. I was inspired by war photos which contained a helmet balancing on a gun as it symbolised defeat and generated a depressed feeling towards the fallen soldier.

The objects used was a toy rifle and helmet from a doll of a WWII soldier, as it was easy to get hold of a realistic gun and helmet without it being real and having to get permission and licences which could have taken days to obtain It was also easy to model as I placed these objects in an old piano, as the old worn down wood created the illusion of an 1930 floor.

Assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/penguins/

Favourite Photograph

The photo above is my favourite photography photo I’ve taken so far. I love the composition of the Lego figures aligned with the ground. My favourite part of this was the rain in the background colliding with the light projected on the wet ground to form a glare which draws the viewer’s attention to the middle of the photo where most of the action is happening.

To set up this photo I didn’t use real rain for the background, I got my brother to hold a hose above me at a height so that the water coming out the hose would disperse on the ground creating single rain drops which worked perfectly. I used my phone light to project a pure white light on the Lego figures, enhancing their white textures even more making them the centre of focus. For the light in the background I used a table lamp which gave me the orange street lamp glow I was looking for. I inserted the title “The Clone Wars” in the top middle of the photo as it was inspired from another photographer who did similar text techniques and it described what the photo was and gave it a story.

I was very pleased with the outcome, as when I took the photo I didn’t want to look into the screen to see what I was taking as I would have over thought about the composition too much and missed the perfect opportunity, which I managed to capture.

I decided to create this as my own assignment as I wanted to publish and showcase to the public my favourite photo and the reasons why.

You can view my photography work, which includes this image and many others on my Flickr account at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/140341053@N05/

Assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/your-favourite-photo/