PLACES - The City or the Urban Sprawl

This image works because the sky and the building kind of act like layers sandwiching the town in between them. A series of images like this could possibly work as another complete project. Taken on fujifinepix with a 79mm lens using the widest angle. Shutter speed 1/125th, ISO 800 f/ 16 and a Polarising filter fro added saturation of the sky.

PLACES - The City or the Urban Sprawl

This will be one of my final images for this unit. I like the weird composition from this awful combination of the bright yellow banana statue in the middle of the pavement, and the way that the council have sensitively painted the window boxes of the flats the same shade! Yellow and blue work well in this composition so I think the colour version is the better of the two.
This was taken on fujifinepix 35mm f/16with a polarising filter ISO 800 and 1/125th second.

PLACES - The City or the Urban Sprawl

This photograph looks like it is made up of several images, because there is the old Thwaites chimney and factory, the working mans pub in the foreground and the modern glass building to the right, so overall I like the mix of times in the photo. This was taken on fuji fine pix , ISO 800 f/11 and shutter speed 1/500th second 35-80mm lens focal length 79 mm . I think this image works better in black and white because it adds to the feel of time.

PLACES - The City or the Urban Sprawl

I liked this image of another of the defining landmarks in Blackburn. I think that the aeroplane looks odd because its not pointing quite the same way as the weather vane, but I like this image overall. This was taken with a Fuji Fine Pix S2Pro DSLR and a polarising filter on 51mm focal lens , 1/1750 sec f/ 13 ISO 800.

PLACES - The City or the Urban Sprawl

This was taken in Blackburn, using a Fuji Fine Pix S2Pro Digital SLR, on ISO 800, F/ 13 and 1/750 second shutter speed focal length 79mm lens 35-80mm . I used a Polarising filter on the lens to enhance the deep blue sky on the day.

PLACES - The City or Urban Sprawl

This will be one of my final images for this unit. I chose to take this building because it has now become an icon in the Blackburn landscape. Having changed the image to black and white I have decided it should be in colour because it has more character and blends with the sky. This was taken on my fuji finepix and 35 -80 mm lens 42mm Length ISO 800 1/1000 sec f/16 using a Polarising Filter. I used Photoshop CS4, lens correction filters to straighten the building line as I got Parallax error when I took the photograph.

PLACES - The City or the Urban Sprawl

These are my Contact Print Sheets for the City or Urban Sprawl unit. I went out around Blackburn town centre and took random candid shots using my fuji finepix nikon 35-80 mm short tele photo lens, which was the most suitable for different focal points when you don't have the opportunity to keep changing lenses. I also used a polarising filter to get deeper sky colours as it was good sunny day. When you use a Polarising filter, you need to adjust your aperture by a couple of stops for non sky work as otherwise your images will be under exposed.