Time to Edit

I felt the photo shoot was really successful and after presenting my images to the students in my class and getting positive feedback I went on to edit my photos in the style that I had previous practiced. Below are a few of my edits;

I felt I woudl experiment with ways of editing as I felt if I had a selection of similar themed but slightly different edits it would ensure my work style had a house stlye but didn't get to recurring or boring. My favourite effect is the high black and white contrast combined with the vertical grain texture effect that gives the image an old style film reel appearance. 

Photo Shoot

After deciding on my desired layout and getting positive feedback from the students around me, I felt it was time to go out and capture my own photos. After a few hours 'facebook' stalking so to speak of my friends I found someone who I felt would be most interesting and also have the style to make the photos most intriguing. To keep with the theme of a 'media exhibition' I decided to hire out a querky film camera to use as a prop. Shown below are a selection of the shots that I took.

Could this be the one?

I began searching the interent for grunge/urban style borders/ textures etc as I felt this would add something more interesting to my work and also create a visual identity as the border would combine with the theme of the pictures and the text.

After finding a few good tutuorials I settled on the background and border you can see above. I felt this border had just enough rugged/ urban detail that it didnt become too overpowering. I became to make a few mock ups of possible layouts, and the bottom one of the three became the one I desired the most to use in my project.

Pin pointing an idea

After flicking through numerous black and white, graphic, urban ( you name it) magazines I began tp pin point an area of interest. I realised after experiments on photoshop that straight up digital graphic design wasn't my strongest element for design. I realised that my best style of design was digital photo manipulation, so I felt that if I could find a media related subject for my shoot I would be away.

After internet browsing I managed to find the photos beneath.






 I took a liking to the second image, the (greyscale one) and went about seeing how I could continue to digitally enhance the image to suit the urbany. graphic/ grunge style design I was hoping for.

Below is how my first edit came out. Through numerous changes in 'contrast, brightness, overlays and blending effects I have found a style of photo manipulation that suited my theme.