Unit 57: Photography and Photographic Practice Project

Proposal

By Ashleigh Darlington

I plan to have more of an urban kind of theme. At the moment I have decided that I sort of want to follow the styles of Andrew Brooks Photography, he takes lots of pictures in Manchester and I like the photo’s he takes and I want some similar to his, I would also like to edit my pictures to come up with photographs similar to David Hackney’s, this is something I would be able to do on Photoshop after I have took my photographs.Architectural Exploration of Salford Quays.

Ideas and Themes:

David Hackney’s Photography

Andrew Brooks’ Photography

My plan is to take at least around about fifty images to ensure that I will be able to choose ten images that I will want to and be able to use as my final images. I will mainly be focusing on taking pictures of tall buildings and streets to create the urban theme that I want. I will be taking some of the pictures in black and white and some in colour, but I want to edit my pictures also and I want more darker colours with dark contrast, I hope for pictures like this:

My Predicted Final Outcome:

These pictures inspired me and played a big part towards my decision of what type of pictures and what things to take photographs off.

Reasons For My Theme:Location: There will be a few different locations, most of them will be random locations where I may just take one or two picture but for my main location I have chosen Salford Quays because I have chosen an urban theme so this location will help me capture this type of image. I think Salford is great for that, as there are lots of tall buildings and streetlights, there will also be quite a lot of people there which will help with my theme and the skylines and the traffic.

I am following the styles mainly of Andrew Brooks as he mainly bases his photographs in Manchester and he has also took photographs at Salford Quays himself as he is an urban photographer.

Example of the tall building that I will be capturing when taking my pictures in Salford quays.

Andrew Brooks photo of Salford Quays.

My Inspirations:My main inspiration for the photographs that I will be taking and who has also been my main influence for all my choices such as: Location, Theme and what objects to take pictures of has been the Urban photographer Andrew Brooks. There are many reasons for this. He is an urban photographer so there for matches my theme and the type of photos I want to take, he also usually chooses to take his pictures at night rather than the day which I admire and I think that is what I will decide to do, as when you are taking pictures at a location like Salford Quays at the night everything will light up and you will also get the reflections in the water and this all helps to create the urban feel without having to add effects and edit the photograph on Photoshop, however I think I will edit them a little but I wouldn’t have to.

Two of Andrew Brooks’ photographs.

My Inspirations:Another inspiration of mine is David Hackney. Now this photographer is famously known for editing all of the photographs he takes and making them look completely different but very creative. He usually gives his images a sort of collage kind of effect as you can see from these images

I really like his style though and I am planning to do this with some of the photographs I take during this. It will be very difficult and challenging for me, however it would really help me with Photoshop and improve my skills, so I think it

will be something that will not only help my photographs but also help me, so I am really excited to try and attempt to do this to my own photographs.

My Inspirations:As I mentioned earlier that I really want to try and re create the image that has been taken in the water with the flowers, this photograph was taken by Clifton Carr. Clifton Carr takes more sort of rural images which isn’t really what I wanted, however I really like his work especially the reflection photo that has been taken in the water with the leaves and as I have already said this is one that I will be trying to replicate.

Techniques that will be used:One of the techniques that I have chosen to use is what its called the “rule of thirds” the reason for this is so that I can capture the tall buildings that surround Salford quays but I will also get the sky as well as I will have the buildings at the far end of the photograph. I will be using a camera flash for most of the photographs that I take, this is so that I can bring out the colour of certain objects on the things that I am taking as I want very bright distinctive colored objects that will stand out against darkish urban background.After I have took my photographs I will then take them into Photoshop in order to make them look better, up to now the way I have planned to do this is to change the brightness and contrast in order to try and re create something very similar to the image above.

Date, time and Location:I will be booking out a camera on Thursday 13th December and then I plan to go to the main location: Salford Quays on Saturday 15th December.However on my way I will be looking out for other places and things I see, looking out for an opportunity to take pictures.