Carnival Colour Selection

For this I decided to colour select two images as the Caribbean carnival was full of colour to make one part of the image stand out to the rest.

Caribbean Carnival

These are the shots i toke at the Caribbean carnival at Preston during half term i had difficulty getting shots as it was a moving precession and was quite busy with spectators but the decision I toke to stand in one place though out greatly helped.

Caribbean Carnival (Head Shots)

As the procession was moving along I found it easier to take shots of their heads as they were alot of movement in their body and sometime difficult to capture. I think these are the best quality as i have captured their emotions.

Colour Selection

Being inspired by my previuos work i decided to continue the theme of colour selection but I saw that the colour of the sweets in the cotainer being the same arnt very visually intresting but together make a good image even though that the ones around seem to be very similar after that I decided to look at sweet packets as the colours are often more vibrant and completmenting colours then to have the image stand out I then toke the decicion to only select one colour of the dark purple an example of colour selection I found is this skittles packet i found on the internet.

Original Image

Dark Purple Colour Selection

Shooting In Black & White

Before shooting black and white outside i decided to test the camera.

I believe this is a good image as the natural light from the window illuminates the face and give it good shadow definition.

This is my favourite image as it has a good composition of from the man standing draws your eye in with his trolley and bags make your curious as to what he is waiting for.

Learning Curve

By using the technique i use i found out that once you save and close the editing image that it stay as you save it so more editing can be done but not with the history brush that i use so now have to start it again.

At the time of saving now stuck.

I believe it adds more to the image rather then having just the labels coloured by it gives more colour definition and contrast as the sharp red against the pastel mixed colour labels this shows that my previous idea was correct to further develop my work in this way gives more visual interest.

Lesson learnt !

Label Colouring

I feel this image is visually appealing as the repetition of the labels but there is no point were your eye is drawn in because it is mono tone.

To further advance this image i am going to try and colour the lids of the containers as the sharp red colour would be a good contrast to the pastel colours of the labels.

Sweet Shop 1

I first started with this image I toke in Blackpool in a traditional Sweet Shop.

I then toke the image into photo shop and selected image, adjustments, black and white.

Then i decided to use Martin Parr as my influence as he like to concentrate on colour this is obvious on his photos such as this on from the book 'Common Sense'.

Although i decided to add my own take to it as i have discovered many street photographers shoot in black and white as mentioned previously i decided that to make the image black and white then make the colour of the sweets show the colours would stand out and would be distracted by the colour of containers.

I used the history brush tool to add the colour back into the image. I believe this experiment went well and will use this technique more to further develop my images visually.

Waiting

These photos i feel are visually interesting as the people are sat close together yet they are completely in their own worlds.

Matt Weber

http://weber-street-photography.com/

''Mom'' Coney Island 2011

After research more into Matt Weber I can see more similarity's between his and my work. Although I have noticed many modern street photographys seem to shoot in black and white which intresting me, I want to try this technique myself as you still get the detail but your eye isnt distract from the main subject with possible bight colours in the background from which Blackpool and Coney Island are famous for from being seaside locations.

I decided to edited to black & white to look more like the Matt Weber photo.

Then i edited to again to make the family holding hands the main subject matter in my photo.

The Birds Of Blackpool

West Bay (1977) Martin Parr

Unlike Martin's seagulls this one is still waiting for his chips.

I came across the street photographer Matt Weber (image above) and i toke the image below with his influence.

This i my favourite image as the shadows contrast because the low light level.