For a lot of my sketches, I had changed ideas to create a better meaning, make more sense or for convenience reasons.
For this image I took away the Peace Gardens Water fountain balls for the background as I didn't want to overcomplicate things since the final piece would be better suited for portrait, and I also took away the sky on the forehead as I didn't think it added to any kind of meaning in the final photo. Also I went with black and white colours so the sky wouldn't be too noticeable to be worth it, it would just make the image whiter.
I had changed the image of Park Hill entirely, without sacrificing what meaning I wanted to create. In the final piece there is no model since I didn't think the position the sketch was in could be taken too seriously, there is no tram image because the risk of taking a picture of somebody was just too high since trams don't stop for long (and also I may have issues with the Supertram logo), the final image has changed colours with a low key sky to have an unusual, other world-like feel (similar to what I wanted to create with the sketch) and there is another planet in the sky to help elevate that meaning.
With this image I had trouble taking the image of the Sheffield Hallam university building with its passage. There was nether a good angle to take the image at since it has text that I wanted to take off of the image, there were trees covering the end of the passage, so I decided to go with the Miner tribute made out of bricks near Castle Street. I also added a skyline in the background with washed out, nostalgic filters, and I made the miner look down to the model rather than have him on his back.
With this sketch I changed two things. I couldn't take an image of the Winter Gardens exterior since the lights weren't on such as I planned, and if I took it at day then I would probably have taken a picture of somebody who didn't agree to be taken. Because of this, I was allowed to take the image of the boot at day, since the I Quarter building wasn't required to be taken at night (so lighting didn't conflict), allowing me to create a man-made vs nature theme. Also taking four separate images for just this would overcomplicate things, so I simplified it to an image of a boot in a garden, combined with the I Quarter building subtly.
With this image I had changed the building for the arm to the Arts Tower as it was a more convenient location, it has more cultural relevance for meaning and it has warm colours (warm and cool colours became an idea for this image), I removed the background entirely for a simplification so the image was more about photography than editing things together, no skin of the arm if found as I felt that I wanted the arm to be a shape for a silhouette picture, making the picture only consist of three clear pictures rather than four, and I made the arm contain the Peace Gardens water fountain balls as I found it to have a good use of cool and warm colours alongside the identity of the modern.
For my image: 'Tomorrow's Today' I had used a graphic of a planet which I modified with the burn tool alongside colour filters in Photoshop, ending with a slight blur tool use. The image was creative commons and free to not only use but also modify.
I went onto this site
Searched for a planet image in the explore section for the google search section
Meaning
The meaning for this image is that the miner is a distant relative to the person denoted in the image, where he is looking to the miner. I wanted to create an unusual, almost nostalgic feel with the colours as I was inspired by old colour photographs from the 1970s where the colours are slightly washed out, which adds to the nostalgic emotions I wanted to connote. I imagined a story where the person in the image is confused about what he wants to do with his life, and so turned to looking at the city for inspiration, where he remembered his relative. I made the shot into a landscape, but cropped into more of a square than a rectangle as I wanted to connote the relevance of the miner and the person, alongside the skyline. I didn't want one factor to overpower the other however, so I went with this cropping. The identity in this image is of the person searching for his identity, where nostalgia turns out to be a major aspect to it.
Method of Display
This would be displayed on a canvas which would require a moderately big size of 24 x 24 to allow for all the detail in the skyline to be shown clearly and at a good size. This would cost around £80.
Meaning
With this image I wanted to imagine a Sheffield building as if it was on another world entirely. With such things as purple trees and a big death star-like satellite as ideas, I was a fan of the concept. Because of this I decided to choose the Park Hill building as that was a building consisting of warm colours, that seemed to be good for playing around with in order to create an unusual, other world feeling. Because the sky in the original photograph seemed to be very plain and I wanted different colour filters for the sky and ground, I had placed another image of the sky with its own filters in the background, in a way where you could see this strange star in the sky. The identity of this image is how colours can identify just about anything in how you see things, to the point where things look like they are from another world because of them.
Method of Display
I would like this image to be displayed on a canvas as this is a full landscape image that would require a big size to see the detail in park hill, and to tell the difference between this other world-like Park Hill and what it may look like in our world. The canvas size here would 72 x 36 inches big. This would be £250 to £280.
Meaning
With this image I wanted to have a message that the man made and the natural can co exist. This is represented through the natural background featuring grass, leaves and a tree in the background, the faint image of the man made I Quarter building, and the boot which can represent both since boots are used often in the nature and are used during construction. With this emphasis on both I tried to have them have their advantages and disadvantages, with nature being the background but with a shallow depth of field, and the building being in the centre of the image, right with the boot but is very faint. The identity of this image is how this boot can be identified as timeless, since the natural and man-made are two colliding factors that can be combined together with a boot.
Method of Display
I would like this image to be displayed on a 72 x 36 inch canvas to allow for the detail in the grass to be shown effectively, alongside the fact that while up close you can see the I Quarter building more and more than when seen from a distance. This would cost between £250 to £280
Meaning
With this image I wanted to represent the fact that time is changing, and so is Sheffield through the old city hall clocktower for the watch, the 1960s built Arts Tower, and the more modern water fountain balls. For both the sake of variety, and to connote a night-life feeling, I took the images of the Arts Tower and the balls at night to have cool colours, and to take advantage of reflections of lights since a blue lit night connotes the modern, with things like the changing street lights. The outlier is the watch which is much older, not under any kind of blue colouring through reflections or the night, as I wanted to represent that the traditional can keep things together. The identity of this image is all to do with time, how the cool colours are used to represent the modern and new, with the warmer colours representing the older, since warmer colours can be identified with things like candles and wood (things that were much more used in the past at least when compared to today), and the cool colours can be identified with modern architecture and neon lights.
Method of Display
This image would be displayed on a large canvas of 72 x 36 inches as I want a lot of its detail found in the arts tower's texture, the clocktower's structure and the reflections of the water fountain balls to be evident and as clear to see as possible in this image. This would cost from £250 to £280.
I wanted an image to take advantage of two of Sheffield's most recognisable buildings, the Cheese Grater known as the 3rd coolest car park in the world (according to StressFreeAirportParking.com) and St Paul's Tower which is the tallest building in Sheffield, both building are next to each other. Since the two are next to each other I imagine them building up a woman's head, and so I tried to accurately match them to scale. I wanted to create the feeling of somebody looking at these buildings and identifying herself with them, like this is a promotional image for a drama where the buildings are significant to her, like if a big event like a murder happened in that area. The black and white colour connote a very bleak, expressionless emotion, which the face also does. The identity in this image is how the model identifies with the buildings, connoted with them making up her head as if the buildings are a part of her. Method of display
This image would be on a 24 x 28 inch display through a frame as the size allows for a lot of its detail to be shown which may require a larger image, such as the way the Saint Paul's Tower acts as highlights for her hair. This would cost around £30
In this screen recording I was removing the black background from the image to allow for an easy double exposure placement. I had used the quick selection tool to select what I wanted to remove, the eraser tool as I wanted to be more specific in what I had erased, the blur tool to add a subtle smoothing to the edges of the cut out picture, and the smudge tool slightly for additional refining. I used a green background at some parts for a clear view of what isn't yet removed. I also used a Wacom Bamboo tablet for extra precision.
Screen Recording 2 - St Paul's Tower background removal
Screen Recording 3 - I Quarter background removal
Screen Recording 4 - Arts Tower background removal
