Project 22: Adjusting the balance between person and space

This gallery contains 4 photos.

Size and position of people makes either a landscape or a portrait.

Project 21: Making figures anonymous

This gallery contains 9 photos.

Lots of ways to do this, here are a few of mine.

Project 23: Selective processing and prominence

This gallery contains 3 photos.

This is the original image where the man anchors a complete picture. I made him less prominent through a combination of saturating the colour in the rest of the scene while de-saturating him; sharpening everything else, and blurring him; and … Continue reading →

Project 20: busy traffic

This gallery contains 2 photos.

Taken from above the queue for food in the British Museum. Below, the same idea with skaters who are a little easier to blur.

Project 19: a single figure small

This gallery contains 2 photos.

A person walking dogs beside the surf. With no person the scale would be uncertain. Even with a person the shot looks similar to the effect of shooting a model scene, or applying a selective front and back focus to … Continue reading →

Project 18: how space changes with light

This gallery contains 2 photos.

This a difficult room to light evenly but the intention of the photos is to illustrate the point of the project, which it does. The space in artificial light is very different from the room in sunshine.

Project 17: the user’s point of view

This gallery contains 4 photos.

Seen from an adjacent seat. The chess pieces are little tables and the chairs are comfortable enough only for a few minutes. Football pitch designed for only one purpose. The view from a table beside reception in the atrium. The … Continue reading →