Gallery layout

I really like the layout of the photos worked out because the photos are not all portrait or landscape so having the layout kind of mixed works well because it makes people actually look at the photos instead of looking through them. I wanted to have a description on what the photos re about so I put  small amount of text at the end.

Final Images for Quays News and Gallery

After going through the experimental editing that I tried out I  decided to go with the simplest idea as it gets the point across with out confusing people. These photos will be used for the quays news article and for the gallery.

Hidden Door

As you can see the door has been bricked up so that no one would enter the derelict building. The door is hidden in plane view people walk past it everyday and don't notice it even I only noticed it when I was actual looking for something that was hidden in plain view. I kept the composition similar in both of the photos, the bricked up door is on the left hand side of the photo in both of the photos, I wanted to show that draw people eyes to the door in the photo on the left so I thought that maybe if the the door was more to the left in the photo on the right then they might notice it more.

With these photos I thought that the feature above the door was quite interesting as i recently read about a god called Janus who is a roman religion and mythical god of beginnings and transitions and thereby gate, doors, doorways and endings. People used to place ether a stone feature or carve his head above their doors for protection and new beginnings. Its interesting as this does not happen anymore and seeing this feature above the door being unnoticed reminded me of that.

This building seem to be used as some sort of shop, I first saw the feature above the door and thought that it must have been an important building in the past as it has the feature above the door is a coat of arms for Salford which I dint know until recently. So it would seem that the Salford coat of arms has been forgotten  just like the feature above the door.

This building used to be some sort of club but has been closed for a number of years. Most of the doors and windows have been bricked up so that people can not enter the derelict building. I chose this part of the building because you can clearly see the door that is most likely to be noticed by passes by but their is also the bricked up window that is less likely to be noticed.

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This is of the same building as the photos above but from a different part their are a number of windows that have been bricked up and it is more noticeable because the bricks are a different colour. As you can see their is a row of the bricked up windows along the wall, I wanted to get a photo of all of them and then just focus on the one.

I noticed this exit down an alleyway and thought it was quite funny because their is a large bin in the way even thought it is the exit is blocked, you would think that an exit would be more noticeable then it is. I only noticed it because of the large red bin in the way. I wanted to get a photo of the bin in front of the exit to show how the exit is being used and then a close up of the actual exit feature.

I noticed that this building has a large black door in the front but then noticed the three windows that had been blocked with wood they had also been blocked from view by the tree which hides them from view.

When I saw this part of a road I thought that the exposed brick underneath the cement reminded me of a shoe print. The bricks look like they used to be the road be for we started using cement, it looks like the brick road is trying to remind people that it is their.

I have seen this building a number of times and always thought that it could do with some cleaning up since it is such a beautiful feature but as you can see it has plants growing out of it and it looks quite sad. The building doesn't look to be in use so I thought that it has been forgotten.

I have always liked how these windows looked because  to me it makes them stand out, but saying that I don't think it gets notices as often as it should because their are a number of windows and this one is not on eye level you would have to look up to notice it which I doubt many people do.

Experimental ideas

Idea 1

I want to link the photo of the blocked up door and the wall that has the row of blocked doors together so I tried layering the two photos together to show that it was hidden in plain view.

 At first I like the way the photo looked but I then started to think that maybe it would not show my idea in this one photo because it does look confusing trying to figure out what the photo is about. saying that though it could also make people think about what is hidden.

Idea 2

This was another idea of combing two images to show what people are not noticing while walking past so I pasted the features from the image on the right on to the photo on the left except it was bigger I then decided to draw around it so that it would be more noticeable.

I do like how this photos shows what people are missing but after looking at it I think that maybe the thick black box that is showing the unnoticed feature is a little distracting from the actual meaning behind the photo so I think it would work better it the line was thinner kind of like a pen line instead of a thick line that is distracting people from what I want them to see.

Idea 3

 This photo is an idea that was more to show what a person is missing in a simply way by just enlarging the feature and placing it next to the fulling image. I do like this idea as it is simply and to the point but is it to simply for a gallery especial when I think about how I want to show the unnoticed parts of Salford.

The story for the photos

I wanted to write something that would be linked to my idea of hidden in plain view. The short paragraph below is what I came up with I hope that makes since to other since it mad since to me. 

Hidden things are not always out of site but they can some times be out of mind so look at the things that you would not usually look at and you might find something interesting for example a bricked up door or window that has been forgotten of hidden faces on a old building these things are hidden in plain view 

Some Selected Photos

I did a number of  photo for this assignment and i wanted to briefly say something about the photos but instead of saying something for every photo I decided to choose 3 photos that I liked the most from the photo shoot. I wanted to say why I chose the different parts of building to photograph.

This is a large feature on top on one of the building in Salford, I walked past it and didn't really notice it till I turned around. I wanted to get a closer look at the features on the building and thought the dome was quite interesting with it looking old also the plants growing out of it help to show that it has been forgotten. I like that it was a nice day when I was doing the photo shoot for this assignment because the background makes the large feature stand out because it quite dark compared to the bright sky.

I saw this set of bricked up window and thought they were a perfect example of hidden in plain view since the windows are their but unnoticed since they have been bricked up to prevent any one from entering the building. With this photo I wanted to show how many windows had been bricked up, the bricked up windows draw you in the photos because you want to follow the wall to see the bricked up windows.

This is a feature above a door, when I first noticed the feature I thought it was a bit creepy since it looks like its eyes are open but their is nothing their. The photo is quite symmetrical, the arch  is leading to the face it draw the eye to the face which is in the center. the lined are clear and simply which I like because it make it look clean.

Hidden in Plain View - Photos

With the idea of "Hidden in Plain View" i went out and photographed things that people would not normally pay attention.Some of the photos are of features on buildings that have been forgotten or windows and doorways that have been filled in with bricks these are also "Hidden in Plain View" but aren't noticed.