Although i took inspiration from the work of Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake, it is also important that I take inspiration from real photographers. So I stumbled across the work of a woman named Ilaria Bombelli. Here she documents life out of her window. This really inspired me to document life out my window too!!
http://moussemagazine.it/life-from-my-window-laura-bulian-gallery-ilaria-bombelli-2017-2018/ |
To begin, I selected the layer which contained the window and duplicated it 4 times. This left me with 5 different layers of window. I did the same with the background
With each of the different layer containing just the window, I changed the level of fill of the image. This helped me gain the idea of the window fading and providing the viewer the sense of its presence vs without. I then merged all the layers and was left with 5 layers containing faded windows and the original edited background with no window. My next step was to use the frame animation toolbar to create a gif. As i had prepared my layers, i used the 'make frames from layers' tool to make my frames. Following this, my final step was to set the time between frames at 0.1 seconds. This allows the sense of fade to come gradually rather than instantly which was less effective. |
I decided to further edit the image shown above. I removed the text on the photoshop file and began to change the image.
My first step was to remove colour from the image and make it black and white Next I used the posterize feature on my image. I set the effect to 3 levels. I decided that 2 levels removed to much of the image and its detail. The final step was to change the levels of the image. However, due to the extent of the posterization i did not need to use this feature. |
My first step to creating my first montage of cameras was to open each of the images and reduce their sizes by 50%. This meant that one image could act as the background to the others, and on top of this the images that were reduced in size stayed in the same aspect ratio. If i had done this through the 'Free transform' method, the image might look unnatural.
Next I copy and pasted all the different images into one new canvas with the freedom camera as the background. To reach the effect of montage or collage I changed the opacity of the 4 additional layers to 63%. This created a lovely effect of fading. Finally, I felt that the entire image had this sense of looking left. I decided the idea of looking inwards was more powerful than what was current. In response, I changed the layer in which the police officer is present by flipping him with the transform and flip horizontally. |
First step was to select and use the text tool on photoshop.
I set the font size to 102 pts. This size made the font stand out but stopped the font becoming the main subject of the image. Between each letter I added a space. This streches out the words, makes them easier to take in, rather than being condensed text like you are reading here. Sometimes I wonder if anyone actually reads any of this. If so please say something in my teacher comment. If an examiner, hope you like my work, I really put loads of time into thinking about all of this. I don't write huge amounts as this isn't about the writing. It's about the imagery, what you feel when you see my photos, what thoughts are sent round your mind. If these images make you question nothing, my work has failed. While putting in the text I had the option of where the text would be located and where it would end. A part of me thought about putting the first line slap bang in the middle but then I looked at the rest of the image. The camera is pointing to the right, as is the church. I opted to put the text above the church and camera. This creates the effect of the church, camera and text being linked together. If the text was in the centre of the image, it would become the title, rather than part of the image itself. God is often thought of this being in the sky so the text against the sky really helps add to this. I have added the image with the text centred to the right, it is clearly less effective. Although maybe its good, I will think about this. I notice that the camera is looking towards the 'eyes' which is interesting. |
First I discovered the italic setting. I was really searching for this before and is quite hard to find. Finding it was very satisfying as the 'Proverbs' but definitely needs it. Gives it that bible effect.
Next, I made the quote itself bold. I shall decide whether I want to keep this after this image is complete. To finish, I used the 'DejaVu Serif' font. Rest of image will be shown below. |
I decided to revisit this image. The text goes very nicely. However I think it's placement could be improved. It doesn't bring enough to the image.
I started this by changing the text colour to white. This means that it is still visible in front of the camera pole but i can no longer have any text in front of the sky. My next step was to decide how many layers of text I wanted. Too many layers meant that it is too much for individual to take in. Humans naturally like counting up to the number 4. I opted for 4 lines of text. This means that the viewer takes more time into each piece of text and finally the image as a whole. |
To highlight the presence of the cameras, I added in a box to show the area in which the cameras are present. I had this vision in my mind of a camera being zoomed in and out of but this requires video editing skills that i do not possess. However, I could create a gif out of this. Make sure to follow on.
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My first step was to crop the original image about 6 times, each making it smaller and zooming in on the boxed area. After cropping the image, I saved each image separately, in preparation for loading the files into a stack.
Here, I selected the images and loaded them into a stack. After doing so, I used the 'make frames from layers tool'. |
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To create the second gif required a changing of the images in the frames. To do this I used the 'free transform' tool. I adjusted the images so that they were of the size of the canvas.
To make my gif small enough for weebly (angry) I had to sacrifice image size. Sadly this makes the images smaller and worse quality. Very sad! |
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Second step: selecting a background. I selected this as it really stands out to the eye. Yellow and Black scream danger and the text combined with the camera is very obvious.
To open the images, i used the 'load files into stack option. Each image had to be individually reduced in size. The sizes varied from around 55% to 30%. The more obvious the camera in the image, the smaller the photo. |
To make the background appear across each frame i clicked 'match layer across each frame'.
I kept each box ticked to make sure that the CCTV in operation sign was at the back of the image. I then used the 'save for web & devices'. Sadly my image was originally far too large to upload to reebly. I reduced the size of the image by 75%. This meant it could be uploaded here. |