2. I plan to have more of an Andrew Brooks’ Photography
urban kind of theme. At the
moment I have decided that I
sort of want to follow the
styles of Andrew Brooks
Photography, he takes lots of
pictures in Manchester and I
like the photo’s he takes and I
want some similar to his, I
would also like to edit my
pictures to come up with
photographs similar to David
Hackney’s, this is something I
would be able to do on
Photoshop after I have took
my photographs.
Architectural Exploration of
Salford Quays.
David Hackney’s Photography

4. My plan is to take at least around about fifty images to ensure that I will be
able to choose ten images that I will want to and be able to use as my final
images. I will mainly be focusing on taking pictures of tall buildings and
streets to create the urban theme that I want.
I will be taking some of the pictures in black and white and some in
colour, but I want to edit my pictures also and I want more darker colours
with dark contrast, I hope for pictures like this:
These pictures inspired me
and played a big part
towards my decision of what
type of pictures and what
things to take photographs
off.

5. Location: There will be a few different locations, most of them will be random
locations where I may just take one or two picture but for my main location I
have chosen Salford Quays because I have chosen an urban theme so this
location will help me capture this type of image. I think Salford is great for that,
as there are lots of tall buildings and streetlights, there will also be quite a lot of
people there which will help with my theme and the skylines and the traffic.
Example of the tall building
that I will be capturing when
taking my pictures in Salford
quays.
I am following the styles mainly of
Andrew Brooks as he mainly bases his
photographs in Manchester and he has
also took photographs at Salford
Quays himself as he is an urban
photographer. Andrew Brooks photo of Salford
Quays.

6. My main inspiration for the photographs that I will be taking and who
has also been my main influence for all my choices such as:
Location, Theme and what objects to take pictures of has been the
Urban photographer Andrew Brooks.
There are many reasons for this. He is an urban photographer so
there for matches my theme and the type of photos I want to take, he
also usually chooses to take his pictures at night rather than the day
which I admire and I think that is what I will decide to do, as when you
are taking pictures at a location like Salford Quays at the night
everything will light up and you will also get the reflections in the
water and this all helps to create the urban feel without having to add
effects and edit the photograph on Photoshop, however I think I will
edit them a little but I wouldn’t have to.
Two of Andrew Brooks’ photographs.

7. Another inspiration of mine is David Hackney. Now this photographer
is famously known for editing all of the photographs he takes and
making them look completely different but very creative. He usually
gives his images a sort of collage kind of effect as you can see from
these images
I really like his style
though and I am
planning to do this with
some of the
photographs I take
during this. It will be
very difficult and
challenging for me,
however it would really
help me with Photoshop and improve my skills, so I think it will be
something that will not only help my photographs but also help me, so
I am really excited to try and attempt to do this to my own
photographs.

8. As I mentioned earlier that I really want to try and re create the image
that has been taken in the water with the flowers, this photograph was
taken by Clifton Carr.
Clifton Carr takes more sort of rural images which isn’t really what I
wanted, however I really like his work especially the reflection photo
that has been taken in the water with the leaves and as I have already
said this is one that I will be trying to replicate.

9. One of the techniques that I have chosen to use is
what its called the “rule of thirds” the reason for
this is so that I can capture the tall buildings that
surround Salford quays but I will also get the sky
as well as I will have the buildings at the far end of
the photograph.
I will be using a camera flash for most of the
photographs that I take, this is so that I can bring
out the colour of certain objects on the things
that I am taking as I want very bright distinctive
colored objects that will stand out against darkish
urban background.
After I have took my photographs I will then take them into Photoshop
in order to make them look better, up to now the way I have planned to
do this is to change the brightness and contrast in order to try and re
create something very similar to the image above.

10. I will be booking out a camera on
Thursday 13th December and then I
plan to go to the main location:
Salford Quays on Saturday 15th
December.
However on my way I will be
looking out for other places and
things I see, looking out for an
opportunity to take pictures.