Train Station | Porto, Portugal

I took this photo during a holiday to Porto in Portugal this summer at a train station. The image has a good composition and a good angle, in my opinion. The lighting is also very good, as it was taken in daylight, and it isn't too overexposed either. Although the sky is a bit too white so I could have had a smaller aperture. I also think that it's well-edited as the yellow tones in the photo are enhanced quite a bit, and it makes the photo look very aesthetically pleasing.

McFly | Manchester Apollo

This is a personal photo of mine that I took at McFly's concert this year at the Manchester Apollo. I really like the composition and the colours in this photo as the vibrance of the blue lighting is very vibrant. That said, the lighting is bright enough as well and the settings of the aperture and shutterspeed are good as well as the photo isn't too overexposed (which it easily could be) and it isn't out of focus.

Acetone Print | Urban Decay

This mixed media experiment was created for my Urban Decay coursework last year, where I portrayed 'Silence in the City' by photographing empty streets and signs. The original picture was influenced by Greogry Crewdson and his Twilight series involving photos showing almost apocalyptic situations. I interpreted this by photographing empty streets at night time without flash and setting the shutter speed to bulb. 

Once I gained that image I did an acetone print of it, by putting acetone on the back of the printed picture and transferring it on to my sketchbook page. I then repeated this process with a map that I scanned and printed out, over the top of the picture. 

Sellotape Print | New York

I took this photograph in Central Park for my New York project this year as part of my AS exam. When I came to edit the photograph I added warming tones to add a bit of colour to the image, hence the orange tinge to the photo. I then created a sellotape print from this, so I then could do a print of it in the darkroom so I could gain a nice silhouette of the buildings. I created the sellotape print by printing off the photo, sticking strips of sellotape on top and then using water to scrub off the back of the image.

Overlayed Map | Urban Decay

This was created for my Urban Decay AS coursework last year where I photographed empty streets. I scanned in a map of my local area and then overlayed it onto the original image of an empty street. I really like the composition of this image and the contrast is very strong but not too overpowering. 

Displays | New York

Both of these images were created for my New York project. I thought it would be interesting to create these to just show portions of a photo, then arranging them in this way makes them look more interesting. Then these images could easily be printed off for display in a frame etc. The top display was part of showing the more negative contrasts of New York such as graffiti, cigarette and steam coming from the ground. 

The bottom display was during a ferry trip to Staten Island, hence I used the New York skyline, the Statue of Liberty and the Manhattan bridge.

Collages | New York & Urban Decay

I created these Michelle Caplan inspired collages for my AS coursework and exam. The top image was created for my exam based on New York and contrasts. The images I used were scanned maps of New York along with other little sketches and textures, and simply set them to soft light or overlay. 

The bottom image was created for my coursework based on Urban Decay where I photographed empty streets and signs to represent 'Silence in the City'. The original photo I took didn't have a lot of colour to it, so changing it to black and white made it very neutral and more effective. For the collage, I used a variety of textures including handwriting, handwritten letters, paper textures and other patterns. I really like the tones, colours and textures that this image created overall and it's very aesthetically pleasing.