The document outlines a photography experiment to create photomontages using architectural features in Harrogate, UK. Locations that will be photographed include an angel statue surrounded by Victorian streetlamps, the Winter Gardens, Betty's Tea Rooms, and The Cenotaph. Photographs will be taken in a grid pattern from different angles and perspectives. The images will then be combined into photomontages using Photoshop on a Mac computer. The goal is to showcase familiar buildings in unfamiliar ways that people may have never seen before.
1. Planning
Location: In Harrogate Date/Time: 15/05/2014
Equipment: DSRL with18 – 55mm lens
Apple Mac
Photoshop
Experiment:
Photomontages.
I will use the interestingarchitectural featuresthatcanbe foundaroundHarrogate to experimentwith
the photomontage technique. There are anumberof locationsthatI have scoutedoutand will shoot.
These include anangel statue ina glasscasingsurroundedbyVictorianstreetlamps,the Winter
Gardens,Betty’steaRooms,The Cenotaphand variousotherinterestingbuildinginHarrogate town
centre.
WhenI findsomethingIbelievewouldlookinterestinginaphotomontage Iwill setthe camerato full
auto mode andtake a seriesof photographsinagrid fashionfromlefttoright,down,righttoleftand
so on.
I will experimentwithdifferentangles,zooms,perspectivesandcontenttosee whatkindof imagesI
can achieve.
Once I have takenthese imagesIwill finishoff the photomontageswith some post-productionworkin
Photoshop onthe iMacs at college.Thisprocesswill allow me tohave the computerplace the images
togetherintoa finishedphotomontage.
Proposal
I will take a numberof photographsaroundHarrogate towncentre of the interestingbuildingsthat
are locatedthere.Ihope to create imagesof the buildingsinawaypeople mayhave neverseen
thembefore.Astheyare buildingsthatmanypeoplewillsee everydayIthinkthiswill be an
interestingprospectandone thatI am excitedtotestout.