Week 9

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In this week, we reflected on the idea of Ubiquitous photography. This is photography that is found everywhere and is constantly reappearing. I had a go at doing this ourselves with the 35mm cameras. I chose to focus on notice boards around Silverstone. It was hard to choose an object at first but I noticed many notice boards that were covered information. This was interesting as although it is an object found everywhere in the building, each one is different. This meant each one of my photos came out of different and consisted of different colours and tones, which would create an interesting web gallery of tones.







This photo can be seen as having a political as a photographical message to it.





As you can see, this photo I took contrasts the one above and below it. Although it is the same thing, the different notices adds the element of diversity to the photo.



As you can see, all the photos have a similar idea about them. This relates to photographers such as Penelope Umbrico, who made a collage of photos of sunsets from Flickr, creating an ubiquitous montage of photos. 

We then worked on creating a web gallery of these photos. Although Lightroom was not working on our Macs, we could still use Photoshop to replicate the idea. This was achieved by:
  1. Selecting a new document and starting with a white canvas.
  2. Placing a photo onto this layer
  3. Using the crop tool to crop our photo as desired 
  4. Use the free transform tool to adjust the photo size as we want and place it on the white canvas
  5. Repeat this with all our other photos, until we have a montage of photos that look similar presented on a web gallery type of image.


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