Final Images

Here my final images. I've made sure that there not all too similar, so I can make a good representation of my view of the city.

I picked this photograph as I like the shiny on the floor and the ghostly feel I get from it, due to there being no people in my shot. The space is every empty and gives an uncomfortable feel to it, as the Arndale is normally full of people.

I chose this second image as I feel the sun set is beautiful. I like the thought of showing the beauty n normally a busy town centre. I also like the way the light is exaggerated by the dark shadows, this gives a nice boarder to my image.

I chose this photograph as I like all the lines involved in it. The angle I have shot this at is very strange and brings a lot more depth to my work. I also like the use of colour involved in the graffiti, this makes my image look more interesting.

I chose this image as I like the dull boarder around my photograph, this makes the views eyes go straight to the middle, which is where the detail is. Its almost as if there is a picture in my photograph, that has been framed.

I chose this photograph as I don't think people look up that much when there in the city and miss objects, such as the shoes on the telephone wire. I also like the way I have captured the plane at the bottom left of my shot, this brings more character to my work and gives more to look at.

I chose this photograph as it was the first image that inspired me in to photographing the images I have taken. I still find it strange seeing the shoes in front of the hilton and I feel that other people would feel this too. I cropped this image slighting so there are no distractions around the sides.

I chose this image as I feel the covered up stalls in the middle show a side to another world. Every time I look at this image I can image them moving around at night, following each other, this brings an uncomfortable feel to my work.

I chosen this image as its my favourite. I love the angle of the shot and the way the lines are all parallel and follow my image around. I photographed it purposely with no people in and with the empty cup on the table, to show that people have once been here. From this it gives a ghostly feel and makes me feel uncomfortable.

Conclusion so far...

After all of the shoots I have done, I feel I have enough images for my city brief. I will now look back at my shoots and pick the photographs I feel are most appropriate.
I will be looking for good composition, good angle of shot, making sure my lighting is good and making sure each of my photographs are different.
I will then write why I have chosen the images and do any editing that is needed, i.e cropping.

Shoot 8

For this shoot I focused on light. So I went to Manchester city centre when it was dark as I wanted the lights to be more exaggerated. Here are a few of my best images...

 ISO - 600

Shutter speed - 2

Aperture - F 15.0 

I like this photograph as I feel my composition is on point and there is a lot to look at such as shapes, colours, lighting. I also like the way you can tell that people are there but you can't see them. They just look like black figures where you can just make out their outlines.

 ISO - 600

Shutter speed - 4

Aperture - F 13.0  

I put this photograph in as I like the use of angle I photographed it in. It's almost as if I was photographing the status' from behind. I again like my use of lighting against the dull dark background.

 ISO - 600

Shutter speed - 4

Aperture - F 15.0 

This final photograph is my favourite as there is a good use of form and shape in this image. I used a longer exposer to to make the lights look cleaner and crisp, this also helps to exaggerate the lights. 

Conclusion so far...

After looking at all my photographs, I don't think that my shoot 7 (trainers) are as interesting as my Hilton photograph. The reason for this is that I went around Manchester city centre and couldn't find any more shoes, so I had to go to places like council estates to get close ups to the trainers. There are no big building in my photographs and not a lot of distance.
However I am very pleased that I did the shoot as it has made me realise not to just focus on trainers on a telephone wire.

I still feel like my favourite photographs are on the Manchester Arndale as theres something about the emptiness that brings a lot to my images.

Shoot 7

This shoot was inspired by my Hilton photograph as it was very interesting to see a pair of shoes hanging down from the telephone wire. Here are a few photographs I have taken, focusing on the shoes hanging down from telephone wires...

 ISO - 200

Shutter speed - 1/25

Aperture - F 11.0

This first image is on a counsel estate near my house. I photographed this image making sure I got the houses in the photograph as well to make it more interesting. I like my composition as The telephone wires fill up the sky and give a little pattern with the lines.

 ISO - 200

Shutter speed - 1/25

Aperture - F 10.0

I photographed this image of the shoes making them the main focus, so I cropped out everything else taking away from the trainers making my image look more simple.

 ISO - 200

Shutter speed - 2/25

Aperture - F 11.0

This is one of my favourites as it took a lot of effort to get this photograph how it is now. I had to think about my timing and my composition as well as all of my settings on my camera. I'm very please with how I have captured the plane in the bottom left corner, I think this makes a really interesting photograph.

 ISO - 200

Shutter speed - 1

Aperture - F 11.0

I photographed this image as the sun was setting, giving a nice yellowy glow on the houses as well as giving nice big shadows to exaggerate the suns lighting. I again like my composition as I feel the telephone wires with the shoes make my sky look a lot more interesting rather then plain.

 ISO - 200

Shutter speed - 2

Aperture - F 10.0

This final photograph is one of my favourites as I feel my composition is on key and the lighting is just beautiful from the sun setting. I also like the way the trainers aren't so obviously and look more mysterious and hidden. 

Shoot 6

For this shoot I've decided to go back to Manchester Arndale to find what I was missing in my previous shoot there. I made sure I used the same techniques that worked well last time to help me develop my work further. Here are a couple of my favourite photographs...

 ISO - 300

Shutter speed - 3

Aperture - F 11.0

I just love this image that I had taken in the Arndale. The three huts that you can see I feel really add to my photograph, looking at them now its almost as if there moving. Like this is what really comes to life when everyone has gone home. These huts just rome around in a line, there are so many things that pop into my head when I look at this photograph. Very powerful, and I'm very please with how it has come out.

ISO - 300

Shutter speed - 1

Aperture - F 11.0

This is my favourite photograph so far. I love the composition, the angle, the lighting. To me the most interesting part of this image is the way there is a cup at the table but with no one there. This again gives a sense that people have been there, making it seem very ghostly. I feel like this image could be one of my final pieces. 

Conclusion so far...

I feel like I'm getting too carried away with my experimenting and I feel I have got a lot of good ideas from the shoots I have already done. So I will be sticking with this ideas and go back to the scenes I have already photographed to see if I can tweak them a bit to improve them.

My favourite shoots were the ones in the manchester Arndale and the ones in the back streets of Manchester so I shall focus on these shoots the most.

Shoot 5

For this shoot I focused mainly on long exposers about manchester cities streets, here are a couple of my favourite photographs...

 ISO - 200

Shutter speed - 20

Aperture - F 9.0

I photographed this scene as when I was walking past it I couldn't help but fall in love with the sun set in the background. To me this really brings out the beauty in busy cities just like Manchester. I like the use of shadows off the posts in the centre of the screen, this really exaggerates the lighting.

ISO - 300

Shutter speed - 7

Aperture - F 9.0

This is my favourite photograph as I feel I have really captured the busy side to manchester with the tram rushing past. I photographed the tram on an angle to exaggerate it rushing past into the distance. Also I photographed this image at night to exaggerate the lights to give me this beautiful affect.

Shoot 4

This shoot was set in Salford. I wanted to focus on angles and signs, here are my best images...

ISO - 200

Shutter speed - 1/25

Aperture - F 9.0 

I took this first image as there was something about the sign leading me off the frame that made me feel a little uncomfortable. I like the angle I have photographed this image in as it exaggerates the sign even more making it the focal point.

ISO - 200

Shutter speed - 1/25

Aperture - F 9.0 

This second photograph is of two old abandoned buildings. I really like the lamppost at the side of the image as all of the paint has pealed off leaving a lonely abandoned feel. I also photographed this image at an angle to give it more character and to put my own style on it.

ISO - 200

Shutter speed - 1/25

Aperture - F 9.0 

This image is of a bin in front of an old exit sign. I photographed this as I thought it was bazar that there is an object in front of and exit door and it has also been bricked. Looking at this image now, I can't help but think that there is something hidden behind there.

ISO - 200

Shutter speed - 1/25

Aperture - F 9.0

This photograph is one of my favourites, as I like the use of angle and composition I used. The season I photographed this building was I felt it had a lot of character and to me its a shame that its forgotten about.

Conclusion so far...

I'm very pleased here the development I have made so far and would like to carry on experimenting with my images as I feel there missing something. I will do a couple more shoots both indoors and out doors so I don't limit myself too early.

The photographs I feel are working the best are the ones that give a sense that people have been there, by showing things they have left behind and giving a haunting effect.

Shoot Three

For my third shoot I decided to look into the use of light inside the arndale as from my last photographs I thought they worked really well. Here are my favourite photographs...

ISO - 200

Shutter speed - 4

Aperture - F 11.0

When I was photographing this shot of the Arndale floor, I noticed the lighting was in shot lights, giving a ghostly affect to my work. I like the use of space I have tried to captured to help me exaggerate the loneliness in my image.

ISO - 200

Shutter speed - 2

Aperture - F11.0

Here is my second photographed of the children's small ride. I photographed this as I wanted to capture the hauntingness in the fact that there isn't any children there on the ride. This make my photograph look lonely, also the use of shine on the floor is strange to see as you don't normally see this in a shopping place.

ISO - 300

Shutter speed - 8

Aperture - F 11.0

This final photograph is my favourite as its almost as if it has been photographed in a tunnel. I like the use of light bursting in to the Arndale, showing off the great manchester wheel. This photograph looks like it has been frames and makes the views eyes draw straight in to the middle.

conclusion so far...

I feel I am making good progress so far, making sure I keep experimenting until I find what route I would like to go down. I feel like there is something more to find in the Manchester Arndale so I shall do another shoot there, but this time looking at different things to photograph.
With each shoot I do I will make sure I keep my artists that I have researched, in mind, to give me more inspiration.

Shoot Two

For this second shoot I wanted to go back out to the hilton photograph I took and retake it in different ways to see the affects it would give me. I also wanted to see if I could find more shoes on telephone wires but I had a problem with the weather, so I decided to do a shoot in the Manchester Arndale with no one in it.

Here is my first finished photograph of the main stairs in the arndale. I photographed this as I felt uncomfortable with the EXIT sign at the top left. Something about this adds to my photograph. I'm not sure what it is but I feel I'm definitely on the right path with what I want to achieve.

This second photograph is of a Cafe with no one in it. I like the way its empty making my photograph look lonely and there is a sense that someone has been there due to the chairs. I like the darkness in my image with the random spotlights dotted about.

This final photograph is my favourite as I just love the way I have captured the shine on the floor. Its strange to see a shopping malls floor as it is usually full of busy customers doing their shopping. I also like the way there is a lot of distance and depth in this photograph giving plenty to look at.

Peter Fraser

This is the final artist I was suggested to research and here are a few of Peters photographs...

This photograph really caught my eyes when I came across it. I find it very strange as of the text written on the green shed 'I hate green'. This really makes you think, who wrote this and why? Maybe I should look into more graffiti like some of the photographs I have already taken.

This second image reminds me of William Eggleston's photographs with the signs in the field, as well as my own image of the hilton with the shoes. Thinking about my work now I could maybe go down a route of seeing what I find hanging down from lines and see where that takes me.

This final photograph is my favourite as there is so much going on, I find something new each time I look. To me this image is very urban in the way the scene is of damage and what people have left behind. Its interesting to see that this scene is indoors rather than outside, this is something I might consider in my own work.


I am very pleased that I got to research Peter Fraser as he has given me a lot more ideas of where I should go next to develop into my final photographs.

Joel Stemfeld

Here is my second artist I was suggested to research, and here are a few of his photographs...

This first image is the only one I see relevant to my own work or to something similar to what I want to achieve. I like the contrast between the strange circular mirror building and the field, but other than that I don't feel there is much more in this photograph.

This second image is very interesting, but again I don't see how it relates to my work. I like the way the man is the man focus and that he's staring in to the camera making me the viewer feel uncomfortable.

This final image is the same as the previous one of the man in the centre of the photograph. I again though don't see a relevance to my work and it doesn't give me any more ideas for my own work.

Joel Stemfeld is a good photographer and I like these three images, however they don't relate to my work and I'm not that keen on his style of working. I won't be using him as inspiration for this brief but I may use him in the future.

William Eggleston

The first artist I was suggested to research was William Eggleston and here are a few of his images that I liked the best...

This image is one of my favourites as there are two completely different contrasts such as the beautiful landscape of the field, against the dull, rusty sign in the foreground. This reminds my of my own photograph of the hilton with the shoes, so this image is very relevant to my work.

I put this photograph in as it makes my feel bait out of place and uncomfortable. Im on edge as its very strange that there is something randomly placed in the middle of the road. To me it looks like a piece of rubbish which is strange on a clean, clear road.

This final image is similar to Williams first photograph I posted on here, as its also of a sign in the middle of a field. However this one seems to make me feel more uncomfortable, I think its because the sign is more dominant. Is the sign photographed in the middle of the shot for a reason? I think so, maybe its to say that mankind are ruining too much of nature, making it seem out of place.


Im very pleased that I was recommended to research William Eggleston as he has been great inspiration and relates a lot to the work I have already produced.

Group Tutorial

After researching my artists, I then showed my work so far to my class mates and showed them the artists I had research. This was a great eye opener as I got to see which photographs spoke the most. From this I also got given more artists to look into to help me develop my work.

The artists that were mentioned were william Eggleston, Joel Stemfeld and Peter Frazer. I will look at these artists work before I do another shoot to make sure my shoot is heading in the right direction.

Andre Kertesz

I researched Andre Kertesz for this brief as I have already researched him before and thought his work is very relevant to what I was to achieve. Here are a few of his images that I think are most relevant.

This first image really caught my eye when I came across it. I really like the way that it looks surreal with the way the bridge at the top looks like its just been edited on. This gives a sense that there is two images in one, with the busy people on the bridge and the quiet man sat on his own at the bottom.

I put this photograph in as when I read about it I found out that the train wasn't actually there in the image, he added it in after.  With the train in the photograph it adds to the busy town affect, with everyone doing there own thing. There is a lot of distance and depth in this photograph giving a lot to look at.

This is my favourite photograph as its very surreal. You have to look at the photograph more than once to full understand it. From first looking at this image its almost as if the man with the umbrella is walking on water and that the street lights are just floating on top. But then when you look at the image again you see that its just a very rainy day, this is good photo manipulation.


Andre Kertesz has a lot of very interesting work which I would like to produce myself. I will use some of his techniques and style of working in my own photographs.

Eugene Atget

I've researched Eugene Atget before and I found it would be good to research him again as I love some of his famous photographs, which will hopefully give me even more inspiration.

I picked this image as it reminds me of my photograph of the hilton with the shoes on the telephone wire. This photograph is similar in the sense that their is a great building in the distance which is over powered by the tree branch in front. This gives a sense that the building is haunted in the way it's almost forgotten about behind the branch and in the fog.

I really like this image as there is a lot going on in it with all the lines for example. When looking at the photograph my eyes get drawn straight to the centre, this is because of the dark corners acting almost like a frame.

This is my favourite photograph as I like the composition of the strange building in the centre making it a focus point. I also like the way this image looks ghost like as theres no people in the photograph, the image is dull with no lighting making it even more gloomy.


I'm very pleased that I have research Eugene Atget as his style of working is very different and has given me a few ideas for my own work.

Sam Gallagher

I came across Sam Gallagher on my internet research and here are a few of this photographs.

 This first image is one of my favouites, I just love the way he has blured the image out making it harder to see what the image is of. This is a good technique as it makes the viewer want to look harder at the image tomake sure they understand it. I like the way the lights are just dots, their all different sizes, colours and distance away. I can just about tell that the image is of a city viewed high up. This is a technique that I myself might use in my own work.

Even though this image isn't of a city scape, I still really like it. Its like the first photograph where it has been blured out making it harder to understand. Its almost as if its been made to look like a dream with the way its soft, making it feel calming.

This final image is my favourite. I just love the composition and the way it has been photographed high up, almost eye level with the tops of buildings. I feel the back and white makes the photograph look peacefull which is a strange affect to see in a busy city. This is something I would like to experiement with in my own work.


Sam Gallagher has been a great insparation and has give me alot to think about for my own work.