Messing Around

Photoshop isn't exactly my strong point but I like to mess around every so often. Last week I read up on an editing tutorial and I plan on going through some of my digital shots from Portugal to finally edit them. However last week I also saw an image on Tumblr that struck me as something relatively easy to try out myself. There wasn't a tutorial so I've just kinda worked it out for myself. It's pretty simple anyways. I haven't shot anything purposely for this, just found a suitable photo from my archives. I do think this type of editing requires a particular shot to work. Might take myself out to get some more suitable shots for it.

I think it'd work better with a subject matter that's diagonally cut across the shot. Just found a possibly more suitable shot within another folder but I'll mess with that another time. It's getting late as I'm writing this though it'll post during the day sometime.

Laters,

P x

From Pet Shops to Porn

Last month Andy Vine and I put our creative minds together and submitted a photograph for an exhibition at Cord called From Pet Shops to Porn. Whilst we submitted and subsequently exhibited just the one photograph we did actually shoot a few which we plan to make into a zine eventually. In the meantime though here's the complete series.

^^ The exhibition shot ^^

The general idea behind the exhibition was to represent the change of a particular area in Manchester from a place full of pet shops to a place of sex shops. Between us we had a few ideas and were originally going to submit separately. But as discussions went on I came up with an idea that would require Andy's help so we decided to collaborate. See all the cards in the shots? They're all Andy's work. Clever chap. I just took the shots then edited them afterwards.

If I'd known we could have submitted more than one shot then I would have liked to have gotten a few up in the exhibition. Can't say I was too pleased with how the exhibition itself was handled. We were told pretty last minute that we'd been accepted so didn't have long to get a print done. Not to mention that they put our rather dark piece in the darkest corner. But still, an exhibition is an exhibition and it's the first one I've been involved with which is something in itself.

Here we are with our shot at the exhibition.

So there we have it. A rare bit of digital project work from myself and Andy Vine. My first ever exhibited piece. Here's hoping this is the beginning of great things to come.

As always any and all feedback is welcome and appreciated.

Laters,

P x