I have spent a few days going into Manchester and taking photographs for my in the city project. I have tried to take photographs that include quite a few aspects of signage or advertising so that when I edit them out in photoshop it's obvious what's been done. I had to be careful with what I photographed as certain things would have meant a lot more work in post production. If something was blocking a billboard it had be traced around where as if there's nothing between a sign and a camera I could just fill it in with a big block of colour. However sometimes it was effective to have something in front of the signs as it made things look a little more real.
I have tried to keep a constant look throughout my 6 photos as I wanted them to share similar styles and fit together. They were all taken with the same 30mm lens and shot around f2.8 on a grey day. There was little post production work done on the images apart from masking out the signs and a small curves adjustment layer to tweak the colours.
I would have really liked to follow Grafs work more and maybe use a neutral density filter and a really long exposure to capture as few people as possible and make the streets seem desolate as I think without the people and signs a city looses some of it's identity.
Here are my final shots:
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