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Unit 57: Photography and Photographic Practise

Project Proposal(P2, P3, M2, M3)By Ashleigh Darlington

I plan to have more of an urban kind of theme, at the moment 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 Hockney’s, this is something I would be able to do on Photoshop after I have took my photographs.Architectural Exploration of Salford Quays.

David Hackneys Photography

Andrew Brooks Photography

Predicted final outcomeMy 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:

Reasons for selection of themeI have chosen to take images in Salford Quays because I want urban images and I think it 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 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.

Andrew Brooks Photographs of Salford Quays

Inspirations:

I really like Andrew Brooks Photography and I would like to take pictures very similar to this as he is one of my main inspirations.

Inspirations:

David Hockney’s Photography

David Hockney is know for editing all the pictures he takes, to give them the weird collage effect and I really like this and I am planning to do this with some of the pictures I take myself.

Inspirations:Clifton Carr Photography

Clifton Carr takes more rural types of images, however I really like his work, especially the reflection photo that has been took in the water with the leaves, this is one that I will definitely be trying to replicate.

Techniques that will be used:

I plan to use the rule of thirds so that I am able to 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 coloured objects that will stand out against darkish urban background.

This is the kind of thing I want with the dark background with bright flowers as the objects.

Date, time and location:

We will be going on November 19th and we will be there from 9.30 till 12.30.

The location is Salford quays.