Spooky Trees - Taken in the middle of the day?

Landscapes with a change.

After taking some photographs in colour i decided to focus on the lines made by the tops of the hills against the sky, i used settings on my camera to add the blue and green filters to my photographs to really abstract the images, in some ways i find them much more interesting than the colour ones due to the fairly dull palette of the the greens and browns against the blue. With these images the sky shows up in more detail creating contrast in texture against the harsh jagged edges of the hills.

Carding Mill Valley

	A selection of three landscapes i captured on the trip to Carding Mill Valley, I tired my best to balance the images by using the rule of thirds and also the colours in the image, as i don't normally work in colour it is something i am keen or improving. My personal favorite of the three is the second one as it has multiple layers overlapping and reaches right back into the distance.

Composition

Just interested on what you feel about the composition of these two images, being of the same object framing is going to be the main difference between them. For me I'm indifferent between them, the portrait one gives main focus to the texture of the rocks and the tree, in contrast to this the landscape image draws your eyes away from the tree and you look more into the sky and the details contrasted between the sky and the landscape. Do you have a favourite?

90'

 Sepia or not?????? Really cant make my mind up on these i think iv balanced the colour photo's really well and i feel you loose some of the detail and natural feel to the image in the speia versions, you oppinions please.

Motorway Pt.2

Creating Contrast with the same viewpoint out of the windowscreen from the back seats. One with the car still the other with the car moving. I like the feeling of calm with the still interior one and the way it contrasts with the energy in the second series of images. 

The docks werent open, but the motorway was.

My initial plan was to photograph the docks and industrial area around the port of Newport after visiting the university for an open day. However with light quickly disappearing and the ports surprisingly hard to access to get any really interesting shots we decided to turn home. Whist on the motorway i decided to take photographs experimenting in documenting a journey and the landscape that we passed. Fortunately the fading light made these photographs more interesting due to the cars having there headlights on and the sunset creating interesting red/purple shades on the clouds.

	The first set of images i like the way the car behind was traveling at a similar speed to us, gives the images a common similarity but the area around the image changes. I chose to position the car off centre to encourage the viewer to focus on the movement of the other vehicles and background.

For these images i chose to use the car window opposite to give a frame to the image. I like how abstracted the trees and crash barrier have become and the occasional streak of colour from a passing car gets picked up. The idea behind framing the work with the window mirror is something i picked up from researching Fernando Gómez's work 'A taxi drivers gaze' i think its a really simplistic way of giving a sense of seeing the image in a first person perspective.