Samuel Bradley

Giant Teapot

This work was inpsired by Tim Walker, well known for having large scale objects within his photographs. I attempted to recreate and interpret his ideas into my own work using Photoshop. First, I took photographs of my model and then separate images of the objects I wished to enlarge. I then had to change the saturation of the teacup before adding it to my final image, so that the manipulation did not look obviously edited. I think this is successful because it is simplistic and relates to Tim Walker because it looks quite magical.

Light Trails & Flash Guns

Light Trails

GIF

Main Street Focus

I took this photograph in Florida and edited it using Pixlr. I layered them image and blurred the background so that it was unclear as go where I took the photograph. However, I wanted some of the photograph to be visible. I selected a circle section of the photograph and chose the central object - a horse and cart. I copied this and placed it over my background layer. I like this manipulation as it is quite simple, but only part of the photograph can be understood.

Before

After

492 To Hell

Before

After

My original photograph is not of perfect quality, but I took it at the time because I found the situation of being a silent bus on a route I'd never taken quite spooky. I looked later at the photograph and realised that the viewer would have no connection to my feelings towards it. I wanted my edited image to portray darkness and unfamiliarity so that it would link back to the reason I took it and help the viewer to understand myself, aswell as the image more.

I used only 'tiltshift' on Snapseed to get the desired illusion and simply carried out the effect numerous times to get a blurry, darkened manipulation. I think this is my most successful abstract photograph of the summer because it portrays my emotion towards the image more than any other and has the most purpose behind it. The 'after' version is much more contrasted as it is dark to light inwards. This effect is often used in horror films so that the viewer feels scared or eery - which relates to my original intentions.