Over the last few days, I've been thinking of some ideas for the illusional photography which will be incorporated to the homepage. Whether the neon style, or newly added "vintage" style, I feel the photography will form a nice basis towards the design of our pages.
I've researched some fantastic photographers who have used this type of style with their work, some work is shown below.

I found this image simply by typing "illusional" photography into Google. I like the way the artist has used a specific style in the sketched image, to portray the history of the image. Perhaps this could be done very similarly with the vintage style, by printing out a Photoshopped image with dreamy, cloudy effects, and holding it up in front of a Nottingham scene. I like this idea, as Nottingham based institutions tend to go for the "modern, bright and vivid" look the days.

Here's another example in a more suitable style.
Another way of doing this would be to go for a more comical approach. After consulting a few of my wittier friends over a drink they came up with the idea of making the character in the photographs larger than the world. This could perhaps be considered for literal meaning and portray the aim of Nottingham media academy. Some ideas we came up with were to have a person leaning against a large building, but from a distance so that they appear to dwarf the structure. We also thought about including other people, for example a hand in the foreground of the image, with people standing upon the hand in the background. Some sketches of the ideas can be seen below....
And some comical Illusional photography I found...



Another way I have thought about photographs for the site, is to include a panoramic view of Nottingham, from a high point, perhaps the castle. By creating a large panoramic view over the city skyline, it could perhaps be an alternate way of creating a map of the cities media buildings, in a innovative and fresh manner. Heres a panaramic view of London which I took from Will Pearson photography.
I like the picture of the New York skyline- we could use that concept so that the outside of the picture was and black & white and the main focus within the center is colour. Think it could work with the vintage theme too.
ReplyDeleteNot sure about the large person thing- not sure what you mean by it...
I have an idea!!!
ReplyDeleteMaybe if you took pictures of type- for example find 'about us' somewhere and take a pic close up then take pic of you holding it up against the setting.
Know what I mean?
Mate, if you get a mood board slapped together for the illusions thing I can get it printed along with the neon and vintage ones I've done. I've made them A3.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to get them printed later on so email me it if you get chance.
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love the second post mate. Relly sweet idea! and yeh I will send you the stuff I've done so far so we can start to build a small porfolio of designs,
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