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HALF TONE

For this exercise we learnt how to make a small pixel image bigger without pixelating. This is called half tone images you make up the image using lots of little dots, this looks a really cool technique on certain images they wouldnt work or look effective on all images, mostly ones with a plain background not cluttered and high contrast images work well too.

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COLOURED GELS

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DOUBLE EXPOSURE

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DRAWING WITH LIGHT

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HDR

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Bokeh

This is a technique i tried out for this experimental assignment, You take pictures out of focus to create these orb like bright dots, the technique is called Bokeh.

The term comes from the Japanese word boke, which means blur or haze, or boke-aji, the blur quality. The Japanese term boke is also used in the sense of a mental haze or senility. The term bokashi is related, meaning intentional blurring or gradation.

The English spelling bokeh was popularized in 1997 in Photo Techniques magazine, when Mike Johnston, the editor at the time, commissioned three papers on the topic for the March/April 1997 issue; he altered the spelling to suggest the correct pronunciation to English speakers, saying "it is properly pronounced with bo as in bone and ke as in Kenneth, with equal stress on either syllable". The spellings bokeh and boke have both been in use at least since 1996, when Merklinger had suggested "or Bokeh if you prefer." The term bokeh has appeared in photography books at least since 1998. It is sometimes pronounced /ˈboʊkə/ (boke-uh).

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This Bitter Earth 2014

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Mikhailov's Sandwich

For this task we had to do a Boris Mikhailov technique and sandwich 2 images together thinking about juxtaposition  e.g. diagonal lines / spirals, nature / city etc. I choose my 2 images a wide shot and a close up and opened them up on Photoshop.

I roughly cut around the lady bird (my second image) using the polygonal lasso tool. Then dragged it on to my wide image (the road) and changed the opacity to what I felt worked for my images. To boost the contrast I adjusted the levels and curves and played with the hue/saturation to boost the colours more. I used the eraser tool to get rid of unwanted background around the ladybird.

I kept adjusting my levels and curves and the blending to get the right look I wanted. I applied a grainy texture as Boris Mikhailov uses grainy images I can achieve that by using a high ISO on production. As my images weren't very grainy I went to FILTER>FILTER GALLERY and selected GRAIN you can increase the intensity to how much grain you want. I applied a texture of brick to the image to give the cream building wall more interest it looked a little empty so by adding this it gives the image more context. Again I changed the opacity so you can faintly see it and changed the blending mode to soft light. When I was happy with my image I saved it and uploaded it to tumblr.