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This image was inspired by the Bragaglia Brothers, I made this image by putting the camera on bulb and holding the capture button down until the model had moved and changed her face. I had to be careful about the aperture because I didn’t want the image under or over exposed so I had to do a few test shots. I think this image works very well as a response to the work of the Bragaglia Brothers because it is in the style of their work and you can see two different sides to the model in this photograph. 

This image was made in photoshop for a project on remaking a CD cover my song was Hurt by Johnny Cash. I decided to go for the death side of the song so I went out and took some photos of graves. I then photo-shopped them together and came up with several different images. I believe this to be a good response to the song because you can see and feel the pain and hurt when you look at this photograph. Especially with the graves in the image, they add that extra doom and gloom feel to the picture. 

I made this image for the CD cover of Johnny Cash’s song Hurt. This image is an extension of the previous image, I have changed a few things but it’s basically the same image. However I think that this image works better for the song because there are several different meanings in the song and I think I conveyed that in the image because of the way that I have flipped the image to mirror its self. It is like saying there are two sides to the song and image and you have to look closely to see them both.

This is another experimental image that I made for the Johnny Cash song. I made it differently this time however. I added the crown of thorns from one of the lines of the song. I managed to do this by making a photogram of some thorns I made into a crown shape. I then scanned them into the computer and superimposed it onto the image I had already made to make it more interesting. I think the adding of the crown of thorns make the image come together as a whole.

This is another experimental image for the song Hurt. I wanted this one to be more interesting so I tried to make it look like a rib cage by the way I place the headstones as ribs. I then added on a part of the crown of thorns, I didn’t want to add the whole thing because I was trying to make this image about straight lines and adding a circle would have not worked for the image. I think the way I place the thorns has worked in the favour of the image and makes it interesting.

This is the last in a series of Johnny Cash inspired images. For this last image I wanted to make it more round than the others because I did a straight lined one so it was the next logical thing. That is why I have placed the crosses how I have and also why I have put three crowns of thorns instead of just one. I thought it would bring more to the image, I think that it works well with the roundness of the crosses. Your eyes kind of trace the circular shapes which is what I wanted.

This is a Francesca Woodman inspired photograph. In most of her photographs you couldn't see the models face, this is what I was going for. I also made sure that what the person was wearing made reference to the background like Woodman’s images. I made it black and white in photoshop because I think it worked better, there wasn't so much colour difference in the dress and cardigan. This drew your eyes away from the main focus of the photograph. I also like the fact that I've used the rule of thirds I think it works well in this image.

Alexey Titarenko was the photographer who inspired this image. I wanted to try and do something like Titarenko had created. I decided that the best place to try and get a photograph with people in was a busy staircase. I put the camera on a long exposure and I had it on a tripod so the camera wouldn’t shake. I think that this worked very well because you can see that the subject is people but you also get the ghostly effect of the long exposure which is what Titarenko’s work was focused on.

This is one of my favourite pieces of work. I made this image by using glow sticks in a dark room with the camera on a long exposure. I stuck about six glow sticks together and then I asked a friend to twirl them around whist I took the picture. I love the effect that it caused; I did however have to crop the image in photoshop because I did not zoom in enough. That was because I was not sure where the glow sticks would stop considering it was a completely dark room.

I made this image by taking one original photograph and then layering the image on top of each other. I then chose to of the layers to invert into white. I think that this makes the image a lot more interesting as a whole because it gives you something extra to look at. I also like the way that I have layered the image so that you eye is drawn into the middle of the image. I think that the more you look at this photograph the more you realise you missed at first look.

This like the previous image was made by layering the same image on top of itself. It was also taken in the same place but zoomed out a bit so you could see more of the object. I decided not to invert the image this time because I tried it and I don’t think it worked for the image at all. Plus it would look too much like my previous experiment which I did not want because I was trying to make different images. I think this works well as an experimental image because of the layering and shapes. 

This is my personal favourite experimental image because it’s original and visually interesting. I made this image by taking a picture of a drainage grate, then selecting the holes and layering them on top of the original image on photoshop. I then decided to lower the opacity of the layers because I wanted the original image to be seen properly, I think by doing this I made the image more interesting to look at. You can’t actually tell what it is when you first look at it and so you have to take some time and think, I like that.

I particularly like this photograph of the Olympic Flame because of several different factors, one being the English flag in the background, another being the shimmering of the people and the flag in the background because of the heat from the Flame. I also love the fact that you can almost see the Flames moving and dancing in the photograph, plus the colour is really bright and you can see all of the different shades in the Flames. I think that this image is composed very well and is a good all round photograph.

I made this image in photoshop, it took me a while. I took the original image and then changed it into black and white, I then decided to rotate the image to make a semi-circle. I then did the same but with an inverted image. Once I had done this I looked at the picture and it didn’t look quite finished so I duplicated the circle and moved it slightly to the right while changing the opacity. After I had done this the image came together as a whole and looked much more interesting.

 I made the black and white top image by layering four photographs on top of each other of someone doing an exotic dance. Once I had got the images in the right place I then linked them together and flipped the image upside down. Although this worked it didn’t look very interesting so instead I inverted the bottom image which made the photograph much more interesting to look at. After I did that I changed the levels because the inverted image made the whole photograph look much darker than the original. I was then happy with the outcome.

This image was in response to the word Trapped. I was able to use another person’s image and add my own over the top. So I found this image of the Nun and workmen in a cave and thought it would be perfect. I then went out and took several photographs but I used the one I took of some scaffolding and superimposed my photograph over the one I scan from a book. I copied and flipped the book image and changed the opacity of the scaffolding. This made the image much more interesting and surreal.