David Bailey

Jack Nicholson

David Bailey CBE is a one of the best British photographers. He has taken some of the most famous photos of different celebrities and the one above is one of them. This picture is of actor Jack Nicholson who is most famous for being in films The Shining and The Departed. I like this image as I feel that it shows a lot of expression, which can convey many meanings. When I first look at this image, I automatically see anger because of the way that he's face looks sort of distorted and disgruntled. I also get the impression that he is upset, as his eyes seem to be squashed together more closely, looking like he is about to burst into tears. Another reason why I like this photo is because of the lighting Bailey has used to light up one half of Nicholson's face and not the other. This gives clear indication on how well black and white photograph work well more than colour in my opinion. I feel that the contrast between the darker part and the lighter part of the image work really well together, this is because of the amount of detail shown throughout the picture. Even though you can see more detail within the lighter part of the shot, you can still distinguish a lot of detail in the darker half of the image. Of course the main focus of this photo is of course Nicholson's facial expression, but within that you can also see a lot of definition within the face. The lines on his forehead are very prodominate in detail and makes the image come to life, and making it more than just a picture. When I look at this image I automatically feel the pain that he his expressing in his face, and with the lighting as well, it makes you more drawn into an image. Whereas if this image was taken with rubbish lighting or not had been taken in focus, I wouldn't be taken in as much as I am now. I defiantly feel that the light and the model expressions are really inspiring to captivate in creating them in a different way. 

Movement Photos

Here is a movement image of a fountain. I feel that this is a really good example of movement and capturing the water spraying out into the air making a rippled effect on the water below. It also captures the sun being reflected into the water, making the water seem more eye-catching and appealing.  

Another image that I took was this when I was in the car going at 30 miles per hour. I feel that the image has really compensated with the colours of the trees outside, also you can see the refection of glass window in the picture too, which gives the photo another element of texture and colour.  

Movement & Light Photos

Here are my edited photographs of Movement & Light. The five images are of a moving lampshade, a view from a car window, a lamppost, a coloured lamp and a shadow. What I have done is that I've edited them to add a different effect to the images and added contrast or more layers to the original pictures.  

Colour Theory photos

Here are my colour theory photographs. I have taken all of these photographs using a digital camera. I have edited them all slightly in Adobe Photoshop, so that I could improve or even change the way that they look. As I have researched into Colour Theory, I wanted to give this images a new diminution that was expressing a lot of colour. 

For this image above, its original was a lot darker, so I have changed the exposure slightly and added a pink tint so it looks slightly more pink than it should be.

For this next image I only edited the colour of the street lamp that was shining through. Even though the light its supposed to be yellow, I changed it so it was a vibrant green so it could catch more attention. 

This next image, I changed the whole picture to a brownish green, I then used the magic wand tool to erased the sky, taking it back to its formal state of being blue. So it looks the person looking at this photo can only see two colours.   

Finally this is last photograph that I edited. All I did to this image was changed the whole picture to black and white. Then I deleted the grey from the actual roses so that the flowers would be the only colour that 

More Movement & Light Analysis

Here is a website that I have found that has many different types of photographs involving reflection and light. >< 

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This image above is one that I found on this website that caught my attention first. I really like  the way that the liquid in the glass reflects the' mountain range' in the background. I also love the amount of focus of that is directed to the glass. You can still see detail in the background but what draws you in the most is the crisp focal point of the glass. I really like this type of photography because it is quite simple to create but you have to be so accurate with getting the right angle of the reflection of the backdrop in the glass. I would like to experiment with creating something like this to see how easy or hard it can be to get a photo as stunning as this. 


    

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This next image is a mixture of light and reflection. I like how the image was taken at night so you get the best possible opportunity to use the fairground lights. I love the reflections that the lights make on the water, because it grabs you're attention as you begin to look down the image, you automatically become attracted to the bottom section. I love this image as the camera has captured a really unique effect, with one click. You can see alot of detail in the image and all of the picture is in focus instead of having two different depths of field.


   

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This final photograph is my favourite that I have found. This is because of the how beautiful the curved mirrored object gives you a panoramic view of the cityscape behind the camera. I love the way the people in the reflective image look almost like silhouettes, making you wonder if they are actual people there. I also love the colour saturation that has been used in the photo, it might have been edited on photoshop but I really love they way it has worked well with image. 

Analysis - Movement & Light

This image by Brad Carlile relates to light, in the way that the room has been lit up in UV lights. You can see the room has three different lights that are shown within the image as well as in the reflection of the mirror. The main colour light you can see is the turquoise/blue. I like this colour effect as it is reflected in the mirror. Also the contrast between the pink and blue lights work really well together making the edges between the lights become almost purple. The small amount of orange light that is being reflected. I like that he has incorporated mirrors in the photo because as you can see, it makes the picture looks slightly bigger and you get a better contrast out of the image.     




Ego Signienko is the second photographer that has used movement and liquid together, to create a really unique captured image. The shutter speed that was probably used was quite a fast one, this is because of the way that the liquid is forming in the middle of the air. Another reason why I like this is because of how well the camera has captured the movement of the liquid, 'exploding' as such from the glass into the air. I really want to experiment with this type of photography myself to see what the possible outcome or remake of this image would be like.   







This final image by Uta Barth is another photographer that I really like because of the technique and closeness she has with her subject when taking the image. I really like this picture by her because of the mount of focus and depth of field that she has used. Also the light that she has managed to depicted in the scene is very subtle. Even though the background is out of focus, that is what draws you in to look at the image. The background has many different areas where you can be attracted to. The light reflecting off onto the chairs has worked really well in contrast with the girl in the foreground. 

Colour Theory & Shutter Speeds

In the visual arts, colour theory is a massive part of practical guidance to colour mixing and the visual effects of specific colour combination. 

There are three types of colour groups: 

Primary Colours: Red, yellow and blue
Secondary Colours: Green, orange and purple
Tertiary Colours: Yellow-orange, red-orange, red-purple, blue-purple, blue-green & yellow-green

Most people only think that animals are colour blind, but people can be as well. This means they could totally have colour blindness or have it only to one colour.

All of these colours can be related to a feeling or emotion that many people can relate to when they see this colour

RED. 

Physical

Positive: Physical courage, strength, warmth, energy, basic survival, 'fight or flight', stimulation, masculinity, excitement. Negative: Defiance, aggression, visual impact, strain.

BLUE. 

Intellectual.

Positive: Intelligence, communication, trust, efficiency, serenity, duty, logic, coolness, reflection, calm.Negative: Coldness, aloofness, lack of emotion, unfriendliness.

YELLOW. 

Emotional

Positive: Optimism, confidence, self-esteem, extraversion, emotional strength, friendliness, creativity. Negative: Irrationality, fear, emotional fragility, depression, anxiety, suicide.

GREEN. 

Balance

Positive: Harmony, balance, refreshment, universal love, rest, restoration, reassurance, environmental awareness, equilibrium, peace. Negative: Boredom, stagnation, blandness, enervation.

VIOLET. 

Spiritual

Positive: Spiritual awareness, containment, vision, luxury, authenticity, truth, quality. Negative: Introversion, decadence, suppression, inferiority.

ORANGE.

Positive: Physical comfort, food, warmth, security, sensuality, passion, abundance, fun. Negative: Deprivation, frustration, frivolity, immaturity.

PINK.

Positive: Physical tranquillity, nurture, warmth, femininity, love, sexuality, survival of the species. Negative: Inhibition, emotional claustrophobia, emasculation, physical weakness.

GREY.

Positive: Psychological neutrality. Negative: Lack of confidence, dampness, depression, hibernation, lack of energy.

BLACK.

Positive: Sophistication, glamour, security, emotional safety, efficiency, substance. Negative: Oppression, coldness, menace, heaviness.

I wanted to experiment with the concept of colour blindness and maybe having a go at create an Lin Osborne piece, as she using colour a lot in her work. 

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Evaluation of Personal Project

HERE IS MY EVALUATION FOR THE PERSONAL PROJECT!!

The brief we were given was to follow the same theme as we had in our Enhanced Image Project, mine was architecture. Then we could do anything we liked within that theme. I had many ideas for this project and produce 4 idea sheets. My ideas were quite different to each other but all related in one way. From the start of my idea sheets there were lots of experiments that I tried to achieve - different angles, slow shutter speeds, collage making and light. These were the main ideas for my ideas sheets.

The creative journey that I took was to experiment with lots of different techniques and see what could possibly work the best with architectural photos. With the ideas sheets I research into two different architectural photographers Ben Thompson and Royna Galka. They inspired me to use different angles and using long depth of field when I'm taking my photos. After looking at their work, I wanted to do lots of different experiments with different techniques that I have come across before, for example pinhole, ink toning and solarisation. I found this experiments really easy to create and follow the right steps to get the best possible experiments.

The photographer that has inspired me the most for this project is Graham Holland. Holland is a photographer that creates photomontage with cityscapes. When I was looking for collages to help me get inspired, I came across his work and I really liked it. The technique he uses is to take individual pictures of the buildings and the street views of people walking and merging them together to create a new image. I fell that this inspiration has definitely influenced my outcome, in the way that I have presented my work.

What I think that I have done well is they technical skills that I have improved on through out this project. I feel this because of the detail and contrast that has gone into taking the photographs; the different angles and depths of field, that I have taken into consideration. I decided to shoot in black and white instead of digital because I feel that I have a better range of photographs and have a better skill at taking black and white images. I am really happy with my final outcome because of how simply presented it is and have different elements to the piece for example cutouts of landmark photos.

If I could improve anything within my final outcome it would be to maybe expand it with more photographs and more cut outs, to get more eye-catching effect when people look at it. Also to have more photos of different buildings around London instead of having the same area photographed.

Overall I have found this project really easy to complete. I mean this by I made the decisions to make a photomontatge and where I went to take the photos. I found the techniques and effects I used really simple but I found that it really worked with the photographs that I had taken. Hopefully in the future I will be able to use techniques again and maybe create another photomontage like this.      

Final Inspiration: Graham Holland

After going through some experiments and seeing what work well and what didn't. My final outcome is going to be a collage/photomontage of buildings and scenery of London. I feel this will benefit my photography skills in the taking the photographs and in the darkroom with different experiments such as solarisation, double exposure are photograms. This photo collage will also benefit my graphics skill by maybe incorporating some graphic techniques into it, also my cutting skills as I have used in the previous project. 

This image above was an inspiration from the start of the personal project, even though I had a few changes along the way with thinking of ways to present my outcome and with different experiments. I feel that this idea is very simple but I could hopefully achieve so much in how carefully I cut around different sections of the buildings and how well I place them on the mounted sheet of paper. I want to achieve something where you can look at my outcome and not realise where the cuts and joins from each photos are. I want people to look at my work from a far and just see a massive 'photograph' but as you look closer you would be able to see that the London Eye is next to Nelsons Column ect... 

I will be developing lots of photographs all in black and white, in a range of large, medium and small images. I will also adding some solarisation pictures to the collage with also  a possibility of photograms of train tickets and a tube map. Hopefully this simple idea will be able to get me the best possible marks, and enhance the key areas that I am more successful in.

This website was the reason for my inspiration: Graham Holland. His website is full of different landscapes of architectures, around the world such as New York, Blackpool, and also collages of celebrities. Definition  of City Scape's...  

Graham Holland is an award winning photographic artist, who specializes in creating photo montages of the urban landscape. He has worked across the world for different companies creating photomontages of different scenarios but his main intentions are to create Cityscapes. Photomontages are about putting together images of buildings or people or objects that would not necessary be put together or are not even relevant towards each other. I feel this is a really unique and original idea, that really just shows off the photographs that have been taken, without any dramatic changes or experiments added to the photos. 

Experiments...

Solarisation - Here are my solarisation prints, I have selected two images that I thought would work really well with the effect. I love the outcomes because you can still see the definition in the image. I love the tones of the images, because it gives it a slight bit of contrast between the detail. Even though I have used this experiment quite a lot in, I really enjoy creating solarised images, because of the outcome that you achieve, I almost looks ghostly and adds a bit of shimmer to the picture.  

Ink - With this ink effect, I only wanted to add it to sections of the photo, but as I soon realised it was much better when the ink was spread all over the image to get a whole new look giving them a define tone to the image. I chose turquoise and pink because they are really vibrant colours that grab your attention immediately, and I feel with the images that I applied the ink to, really created a new image completely and really captures your attention. 

Pinholes - And finally with the pinhole dots, I chose three different images that in my opinion would work with light shining behind them. I feel that each image has a uniqueness about it with having different amounts of pinholes giving the the images a shadow behind them. And again gives it an almost ghostly outcome. 


These experiments have been really useful because I shows that just by adding something some like a few pinhole dots, can turn that image into something completely different. With that in mind I may only take a the solarisation method to use in my final piece. I do like the other effects but I feel that this experiment will benefit more with my idea rather than having lots of different experiments all in one. Hopefully i will be able to use this techniques at some point in the future 

My Possible Intentions...

My intentions for this project is to be able to develop a collection of photographs with four different effects adding to them. I feel I will be able to broaden my design ideas by using four different effects adding to a range of architecture and documentary images of buildings and moving cars.  

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For the different techniques that I want to use in my final outcomes, are four different techniques that are solarisation,  ink and pinholes.

My first effect that I want to defiantly us is solarisation. This  is one effect and technique that I really enjoy doing because you can either do it digitally or in the darkroom. I really think solarisation will work really well on my negatives because of the architecture and documentary photographs that I have taken. Also another reason why I like this technique is because of the shadows and the greyscale that is being processed right in front of you. The amount of detail that is still shown through the effect, can create a new image entirely with the amount greyscale and shadows that have been formed.     

Another effect that I may also use is by adding an ink layer. I have used this effect before but I want to expand it slightly so that it gives me a better effect. I want to use this effect so that the ink can stain the image, to give you a colour and black picture, to make a sort of water-colour effect over the top of the original photograph. 

For my possible final effect is pinholes. This is a effect that I have used previously, but didn't really work out in my favour, so I would like to try again at creating this effect with better images. This is because I feel that the image I worked with before with using the pinhole dots was a little bit blur and was on paper not on photographic paper. The buildings and places that I have taken photographs I think that some of them would work really well, by adding another element into the photo. 

Hopefully I'll be able to use two out the four effects, if not all of them to use in my final outcome and will presented in a way that they all of the techniques and the photos will be able to be able to stand out.

Here on my Pinterest is some example of the effects that I want to use :) 

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The presentation of this final outcome is important because it adds to your final ideas all rolled together. I want it to be able to show off each individual photograph and also 
with the techniques applied to them. 

One way that I want to present these images is to add them to foam board, so they are placed on to the board so the pictures are slightly raised off the page to make it look slight 3D, which will hopefully get peoples attention to look at my final piece. 
Another presentation idea was to have the photos with the same effect, hanging on a piece of string with a boarder of a film strip around in so it frame the final pictures. I really like this idea because once you can add the pieces of sting to a hanging mobile to it will be able to hang from a hight and maybe spin slowly in the air. 

Hopefully I will be able to achieve one of these presentational devices, even though just having the images stuccoed down to a piece of card isn't really appealing, with the effects that I have chosen it my look simple but effective.   

Process Review

1. Which materials and techniques have you experimented with during the this project? 

2. Have you explored and developed your ideas imaginatively? How have you demonstrated this? (give examples, link to posts or include images) 

3. Have you research a diverse range of photography and completed this on your blog? Who have you analysed? is you analysis in-depth? (again give examples and link to posts) 

4. Have you explored a range of ideas around your theme within your experiments? What are they? How have they informed your ideas?

5. Have you refined / developed your outcomes through experimentation? How? 

6. Have you annotated, in detail, your experiments and developments on your blog and used this information to help you improve? 

7. Which techniques / experiments have been most successful? Why?

8. Which techniques / experiments have been least successful? Why?

9. Which techniques / experiments will you be developing further for your final outcome? Why? 

10. What else can you do to further develop the techniques / experiments you want to use for your final outcome? 

1.During this project I have experimented with Instagram effects, digital solarisation and darkroom solarisation. I want to develop my skills further with a lot more experimentation and use of different materials.

2. So far on this project I haven't really explored the imaginative side. Meaning that I haven't had a idea for what other techniques to use or what my final out come could be. Hopefully with a little bit more experimentation work with effects and materials, I want to create the best possible display. 

3.The photographers that I have looked at who have inspired me for this project have be documentary photographers Ben Thompson and Ronya Galka. Their photos are of life around London including buildings and people. I have taken some black and white images as well as digital so there is a wide range of effects. 

4.My theme is Architecture but I have also Incorporated in Documentary so it gives you a wide range of images within architecture. My ideas have ranged from a collage of the London buildings to the Christmas lights on the building and houses. I have switched between the two. 

5.I have had many ideas for this project but I have I have decided that my final idea is of all different buildings and adding different effects to them to get a range of photographs. From solarisation, to stitching to inking the image.

6.I have annotated all of my experiments and have uploaded them to my blog. I feel as though my in depth analysis is my down fall so if I have time, I may need to go back and write a little bit more fully about that I want to achieve and have I like about a particular photo. 

7.My most successful experiment was the digital solarisation, this is because of the amount of detial that the effect still gave the image. You could still see the outline of the houses and people, even with the alteration. And it was quite simple to do and follow. 

8. My least favourite experiment has to be the darkroom solariation, only because you cannot predicted whether or not the outcome will be perfect. This does take up alot of time and patients, but eventual outcome is great. I feel I just need to work a little harder on getting it right even if it takes time.

9.For my final outcome, I would like to use the solariastion technique and I would also like to use other experiments that I have done in the previous project such as ink stain the image, stitching in to the photo. I wan tot make a collection of images that have been experimented on differently with different materials and effects. 

10.The further development that I would like to achieve would be to keep on experimenting with my final photographs and with all sorts of effect and experiments to see what works really well and what does not. 

Instagram & Colour Solarisation

For some more digital experiments, I used some of the imagery that I had already taken of different buildings and other objects, to create this four pictures. 

This photo is apart of Trafalgar Square fountains, with the traffic in the background. I wanted to take a photo of this because it could capture all of the busy traffic of London. The lights of the buildings, cars and lamppost all add to the image. I wanted to make this experiment a bit different, so I followed the same steps in making a digital solarisation, but instead of changing the image into black and white. I kept the image its original colour and continued to follow the steps. This was the final outcome of the picture. I like the use of the pink/yellow/blue all in one photo because they really compliment each other. The yellow highlights the lights of the cars and buildings, the pink shows the mid-tones of the picture and final the blue indicates the shadows. I really love this experiment because of the amount of detail that you can still see even with the different colours.  

Another colour solarisation experiment I chose to do was this image of a big wheel in Hyde Park's Winter WonderLand. The original photograph was a little bit dark and you couldn't really see the people walking in front. So I thought I would try and to make the image look more interesting. I again followed the same steps as before to make the solarisation image. I wanted to make this as vibrant as possible so instead of only using two or three colours, I used a range of neon colours to create a better effect. I really like the colours because it looks a bit retro and rave like, because of the neon. I think this adds a lot more emphasis to the photograph and makes it look bait more eye-catching. 

The next experiment that I chose to do was making an Instagram effect. Even though my theme isn't Nature, I wanted to try and make this image of a tree more inspiring and eye-catching. Instagram effect is an app on the iPhone what many people use to get the best quality photos. Unfortunately I don't have an iPhone, so I decided to make an Instagram picture on Adobe Photoshop. The steps I followed on photoshop was to just to adjust the brightness and contrast, then making a layer of a light brown/cream to lay it over the original photo. After taking the opacity of the colour layer down, I played around with the settings of the amount of reds/blues/greens the image has. By adjusting that levels slightly on the colour balance, this was the final outcome. I do think that by adding the photoshopped instagram effect has made the picture of the simple tree more interesting and more detailed to look at.   

For the final experiment, I used the photoshop instagram effect on this photograph of the hotel Claridges in Mayfair, London. I followed the same instructions that I did for the Instagram tree image, but this time made this picture slightly lighter. In my opinion I really love this photograph and the effect because it really stands out in my eyes and works really well with the colour of the building and the christmas trees and decorations as well. I also love the fact that the whole image is of all the hotel and nothing else can really draw you away from it. Even though there are people walking past the building and the christmas decorations are very dominate, you still are drawn into the hotel more than anything else in this photograph.    

Digital Solarisation

For some digital experimentation for my personal project, I took some photographs around London of all the buildings with the Xmas lights on. I though this was a good opportunity to take them at night so you could see the architecture lit up in the dark. Below are the five best original photos that I took. 

Even though I took this pictures as experiments, I wanted to make them more outstanding to look at so I edited them on Photoshop and turned them into solarisation images. Firstly what I done was turned the picture into black and white and played around with the contrast. Then I added a curve to the image this meant that I was making the picture more grey and adding a lot more detail to the black and white areas of the photo. After that I added another curve to get more definition, then finally added a level. This meant that I was controlling the amount of black, white and grey scale into the different areas of the photograph. Here are my final outcomes.

The top two pictures are my favourite because of how in focus the camera was with the building and the big wheel. I really like the solarisation effect because it adds more definition to the photograph and makes it more eye-catching. I really love the use of Solarisation so I may use this technique for the personal project, because this technique has worked well for me in the past so hopefully it will help me get the best possible grade with the best pictures that I take. 

First Film Experiments

Here is the test strip of the fist roll of film that I shot. As you tell each individual photo needs to have a different timing and different aperture setting. What I took photos of were of different angles of a house e.g high angles, low angles. I also took photographs of an early morning when it was raining with lots of traffic. This made the lights on the cars  shine on the ground and reflect on the wet surfaces.  

These are 4 of the best photos off of the test strip that I took. Two were taken in the rain and the others were taken when it was just becoming dark.  I though it would be a good idea to take some photos in the rain because of the effect the wet surface would give the light bouncing onto the ground. I also think that the moving cars have added to the effect of the final image, because of the shutter speed i had the camera on. Hopefully this first roll of film will help me over come problems when it comes to processing my final film to get the best possible photographs. 

For some experiments on some on the photographs I decided yo make two of the best prints into solarisation prints.  Solarisation is a effect in photography in which the image recorded on a negative or on a photographic print is partially reversed in tone. Dark areas appear light or light areas appear dark. I choose these to images because I felt that they would work best. I prefer the top image because of the definition that has been brought out by solarising it. You can see the wet surface really well on this and also where it was raining so much you can see little droplets on the camera, which also adds something to the final image.

I really want to continue with making solarisation photographs for the mock exam because I feel that I could develop more of a higher mark by using the best photo and the right experiments. 

Ronya Galka​ ​Photog​raphy

Ronya Galka is another photographer that has also inspired me to take photographers of London. For example this first image I really like because of the weather condition that it is in. The fact that it has been snowing also added to the effect of the amount of the people around. This is because normally there would be lots of people walking up and down this road, so being about to capture the weather environment as well as the the Houses of Parliament as well is very effective. You can see there is a lot of detail and definition going on in this photo within the snow on the ground and the building as well. 

This next image is another favourite of mine because of the night sky and the location as well. Even though the main focus point is the old women on the bench, I also think its the lights of 'HoP' are a big feature too.  The reason why I think this is because of how dark the image actually is, but by having the lampposts on and the light reflecting in to the river from the building, making the picture come alive in someway or another.  


This final image is got a bit of everything in it from Nelson's Column leading down to Big Ben and the embankment. Even though the main attraction in this photo is the couple on the steps, I feel that but capturing the different architectural buildings and monuments really makes the image look and feel more special. There is a good use of depth of field and that everything is in focus even from a long distance. I really do like this picture because it combines architectural and documentary photography together.

Ben Thompson Photography

Ben Thompson is a photographer that has inspired me to take photographers of different architecture at night with their lights shining and all lit up. Here are three of my favourite images that he has taken around London of some of the iconic tourist attractions.  

The first image is of the O2 arena and the buildings up and down the river at twilight. He has captured all the lights lit up along the river and in the background as well to create a perfect scenery. Also the blueish/purple sky adds to the effect and makes the lights seem more bright and eye-catching. This is my favourite photo of Thompson's, but if I had any criticism it would be just to capture the Arena with out some of the many lights. 

Another photo that I really like by Ben is this one of the Houses of Parliament. The main reason why I love this photograph is the light reflecting onto the water. This is because of how something so simple can be so effective to look at. Another reason why I like this photo is because of the detail that the camera has captured of the building. The clouds in the sky are very dominate as well as you can just about see them fade away into the night sky.>

The final image that I really like is this one of the London Eye. One particular reason why I like this image is because of the slow shutter speed that has been used. If you look closely you can just about see the wheel slightly blurred, which means that Ben has captured the same image for a number of seconds or even longer to get the wheel seem like it has been moving. Also I like the different buildings lights in the background it added to the outcome of the picture and makes the 'Eye' more impressive.