Places: Evaluation Summary

Alien / Foreign Environment

I chose two different images for my alien/foreign environment because I captured images in two different places and so to me they are both alien/ foreign images. I kept the use of colour in the image of China Town because when you go there, it full of bright vibrant colours. With Salford Quays the mixture of blues and browns complement each other. I added clarity to the bridge because it gives it a dream like feeling and I associate bridges with dreams.

Significant Place

When photographing my significant place I wanted to get the images across so that people would know what I was trying to portray without having to explain. Personally I think that I’ve achieved that from the images I’ve captured and the use of different and bright colours. I chose to capture the images by looking up at them to portray the view from a young child. I went on a nice bright day which is what I wanted because my aim was to get the richness of colour from outside, also when I went to primary school it was a important and a joyful time I wanted to get the view of that across using the brightness of the sun. I decided to keep the not edit two of the images because of the use of colour but I changed the one with the coat hanger on because I wanted to get the message across of how its been awhile since I was at school. I used lens baby on the gate to symbolise a distant memory feeling and how at the time it felt very surreal and like a dream going to school in England for the first time.

Urban / City

I chose to photograph Manchester City because I’ve been there several times so its familiar to me and I had an idea of what images I wanted to capture. My aim was to go and capture large buildings to symbolise a big city. The composition of the image would be to capture all of buildings using a wide-angle lens and to capture them by looking up at the buildings to emphasise how tall the buildings are and how small we are. I decided the use one of the images that was in the dark so I had an image that was captured at night. Also the use of light on it highlights the shape of the wheel.

Countryside / Wilderness

I only have one image for wilderness because my significant images I thought were more important so I submitted one more image for significant and only one for wilderness to make up my chosen eight images. I chose to make the image panoramic so you can get an overall view of the scenery and there was wasted paste above the hills so I cropped it so there wasn’t as much and the focus was more on the hills. My aim was to get an overall view of the scenery, the weather was lovely the day I went out and there was a slight frost in the air so the river had some parts frozen over and the ground was nice and crisp from the cold. I added some clarity to it just to make the edges soft making it look more appealing to the eye and to give it a dream like feeling to it. If I were to go out again I would try to capture three different exposures of the same image so I could experiment