city in motion

This experience i did find easier as i wanted to focus more on transport and thing with movement other than people. It was again hard to think about composition as you had to be quick with camera so you didn't miss the motion. I didn't feel uncomfortable when doing this as i was more in with the crowd and less people were conscious of the camera as the camera wasn't in peoples faces. I felt with the task motion blue didn't matter as it brought out the motion a lot more. 

city of colour

Here are some images i took to show the city in colour, I focused looking at bright colours that were attractive to the eye. I  did find this task hard as it was hard at times to look for really bright colour and things that would stand out. I felt a little uncomfortable when doing my shoot as i felt people were conscious of the camera and i felt like i needed to blend in more I also sometimes felt it was harder to think about composition as most of them were spur of the moment images so this meant shooting quick. I felt it was better to stay back and shoot from a distance as i did not feel comfortable enough putting the camera into peoples faces however i feel i will get more comfortable over time and my images will improve with more practice.  

raw files

"A raw file is the image as seen by the camera's sensor. Think of it like unprocessed film. Rather than letting the camera process the image for you, turning it into a JPEG image, shooting in raw allows you to process the image to your liking"

A RAW file is developed into a final JPEG or TIFF image in several steps, each of which may contain several irreversible image adjustments. One key advantage of RAW is that it allows the photographer to postpone applying these adjustments — giving more flexibility to the photographer to later apply these themselves, in a way which best suits each image. The following diagram illustrates the sequence of adjustments:

RAW Image
 
 
 

→

Demosaicing
White Balance
 
 

→

Tone Curves
Contrast
Color Saturation
Sharpening

How to process raw images (steps 1-6)

01 Adjust the exposure
Open your raw file. Start by adjusting the ground's tones, as the murky mountains make up most of the shot. You can fix the sky later. Increase Exposure to +0.30 to make a global adjustment, then slide Fill Light up to +19 to reveal more midtone detail in the backlit mountains.

02 Tweak the contrast
For a healthy range of tones from black shadows through to bright highlights, drag Blacks to 10. This will darken the shadows of the foreground stones. Increase the Contrast to +41 to reveal a lighter mist against darker midtones. This helps to reveal shapes in the landscape.

03 Colour and detail
By pushing the Vibrance slider up to +57, you can bring out features such as the warm yellowing grass and the cold looking greenery on the background hills, drawing attention to various textures in the scene. Warm the cold background up a little by sliding Temperature up to 5600.

04 Add a graduated filter
To capture sky detail on location we would have needed to close down the aperture by a couple of stops, but this would have plunged the backlit landscape into darkness. To make a selective sky adjustment, grab the Graduated Filter tool. Set the Exposure to -2.15 and the Contrast to -30.

05 Draw a gradient
Click at the top of the frame and drag the Graduated Filter down towards the top of the mountains. This will create a gradient that darkens the sky, revealing hidden textures and colours. It will also gently darken the top of the mountains, making them stand out from the rest of the scene.

06 Selective adjustment
Select the Adjustment Brush from the top tool bar. Set Exposure to +0.35, Size to 6 and Feather to 56. Next, spray over the stone path to lighten it a little - this will help to lead the viewer's eye into the scene. Use the left square bracket key on your keyboard to shrink the brush tip when required.

abstract architectural photography

                                 
 Johnny Kerr



A fine art photography based in the west valley of Arizona having taken an interest in art from a early age. He is a self taught photographer who has mostly in his adult life focused on graphic design but has now moved onto photography. He has chose to use photography as a way of expression. His background in graphic design does come through in his images as they're is a clear use of lines and structure.

His work is shot with a wide angle lens and his use of angles is really strong when it comes to shooting these images. He looks at shooting from ground level looking up. He focuses on  really tall building as this creates a grander picture. His images look at patterns and lines but also focuses on space around the building to isolating the basic elements. He looks at contrast by doing his images in black and white and focusing on shadows and highlights. The images are extremely abstract.

Simon Kennedy 

A London based photographer Simon Kennedy focuses on looking at interior and architecture. By studying and teaching architecture he has a good understanding of the subject this also has gave me a strong photographic vision when looking at architecture.He uses software enhancements within his images. This is why the colours appear strong. he mainly looks at blue and whites within his work and his image with a lot of white within do seem bleak. His images almost have an eery feel to them. He almost makes the buildings look abandoned. I feel his back ground in architecture has been a massive advantage within his work as you can see he has a strong understanding of lines and the way the buildings. He shows strong composition throughout his images. He states “My top tip for beginning architectural photographers is simply to get out there and do it a lot. This is the best way to understand how architecture photographs in different light, from dawn to dusk and into the night." This shows he looks into more detail within his work, To him it is just more than taking picture he wants to explore the subject and understand it as he feels it will help with the success of his images.





Janie Airey 

Working with companies and design agencies Janie has a wide variety of work when it comes to her portfolio from portraits to architecture. She was lucky enough to photograph the 2012 Olympic stadium in London. Her work consist of lots of open space making these locations deserted. Her images are clear and crisps and mainly focuses on lines and shapes within her images. They are very simplistic, most of her work focuses on rule of thirds as a lot of her images the patterns are in 3's this helps you view the image as you view the image in blocks. This images speak no narrative yet speak feelings of emptiness and feeling alone as this could be a way of someone perceiving their feelings through these images.







Alexandra Jacques

"The facades of well-known buildings in Paris, New York and Brisbane have been reduced to patterned surfaces and silhouettes in this series of images" This images are extremely abstract and may also be perceived as surreal. he has taken something we see with the human eye and the exaggerated on them by cropping these images to create patterns we wouldn't see to this extent. At first some of his images are hard to read as some of them do not look like buildings. The colours are really strong within his images, you can also see that he has thought about these images carefully as you perceive the image in a completely different way to its natural form.  I really like the way he has looked at patterns and forms in his work to create unique images of things we see everyday. 





Pete Sieger

Studying architecture in the late 60's Sieger created an interest for architectural photography when he got his first large format camera that was a 4”x5” Kodak Masterview with a 90mm Schneider Angulon lens. He has now moved on to using a DSLR. His work has been put in exhibitions and magazines from both of these kinds of cameras. His work is injected with a lot of colours and also a lot of block colours such as the top image i have chose only really has two colours within the image which is a red and blue however these are really strong bold colours making the images appealing to the eye and striking. He looks a forms within his images. He looks at cropping images so the whole building is not in view. There is a lot of structure within his images as he explores lines strongly. He has been referred to being photographer with a architectural eye i feel this is because he had a history in architecture so he understands building a lot better when it comes to things such as structure and forms.

Dave Wilson


A scottish photographer living in Texas Wilson has been taking photo's since the early 1980's. He uses his images to intensify colour,shape and texture as in most of his images he uses HDR techniques. His images are really strong when it comes to colours as he brings out golds and blues a lot within his work.He also uses high contrast when his work is in black and white. I really like the use of angles within his work as he uses wide angles to create these images that have so much shape within them. As they are shot at extraordinary wide angles this also creates great detail within the images. His images do look have a strong HDR affect to them as the layers are strong this also adds texture to the images.