Liam Spencer 'Painter'
Research
The photos in my research i have found all have similar characteristics between them all. Each of the photos are consisted with different angles, depth of fields and contrasting colours. The moist ground allows for a better reflection of a colour burst from the surrounding light. Which means that time and weather (also location) are key to getting these images where you may need a day where it rains and it to be shot at night.
Artists which take photos like this may not go just for the reflection but show how the urban environment has an affect on the earth with the colour bouncing off them. The depth of fields in the photos allow more focus to the colour on the grounds compared to if all the photo was in focus. Some of the lines in the photos allows the viewers to have there eyes drawn because of the corresponding lines used. Liam Spencers images have a variety of environment conditions wether it is wet or dry he manages to produce a reflection in his paintings. His photos consist of busy and neutral compositions which give the effect of a natural city environment. Even though this may not represent what Liam actually saw wether it was dull, dark or too busy Liam could've manipulated it so his images had the bright reflections even though it may not have looked like it.
Artists which take photos like this may not go just for the reflection but show how the urban environment has an affect on the earth with the colour bouncing off them. The depth of fields in the photos allow more focus to the colour on the grounds compared to if all the photo was in focus. Some of the lines in the photos allows the viewers to have there eyes drawn because of the corresponding lines used. Liam Spencers images have a variety of environment conditions wether it is wet or dry he manages to produce a reflection in his paintings. His photos consist of busy and neutral compositions which give the effect of a natural city environment. Even though this may not represent what Liam actually saw wether it was dull, dark or too busy Liam could've manipulated it so his images had the bright reflections even though it may not have looked like it.
My edits
My aim to produce bright and colourful reflections from saturated and wet ground was a success to a point. I increased saturation on all the images to allow bright water reflections. On some of the images i used the straighten tool to let any objects which was diagonal on the image straight (Even though you lose some of the image by doing this) it looks better to look at. Example of the bin in the middle which has been straighten.
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Development Idea
The idea that i wanted to do was create an image which used the same image twice to help portray the reflection on the floor more on the image. So i got 2 images the same and flipped one of them and put it behind in a different layer. I then got the rubber tool at opacity 48% and rubbed out using a soft edge to allow the image behind to see through. This meant that once it had been rubbed out te image seemed to have flipped and the reflection was on the ground on both sides giving a more colourful image.