Reflection Photography [5]

The Process 

My ideas originally came from the idea of exploring old and new and how they have developed through time which is where i found a lot of photos that used old photos and then returned to the location and captured an image with a past and present, for example the picture below. Although I thought this was a good idea and at the time was considering it, i knew it could become a difficult area to approach so kept it in mind to have a reasonable outlook on other areas. 

The actual process in developing my photos was not too difficult to approach once I understood how i wanted it laid out in an image. The main area of the image i wanted to emphasis was the difference between old and new hence why i used the black and white contrast between the two. I performed this by masking out the inside screen of the phone and inverse selecting it and applying the black and white effect whilst positioning the separate image that would go on top of the screen. 

If you look carefully you can see the selection lines

This was the image i print screened off my phone and positioned on top of the original image, this process just involved adjusting the corners around the edge, feathering the sides and moving around the contrast and brightness.


The one image out of three which was edited differently compared to the others was the map photo, this particular image required a lot of resizing to help it stay in line with the actual map around it due to the moving of the camera whilst take each individual shot

As you can see from this image i had to adjust the layer underneath to match the front layer which was a problem because i didn't use a tripod which i soon realised would have made the image a lot more precis and easier to work with.