Hyde park page Development

For the Hyde Park Article, I thought I better try and incorporate some of my illustrations from my sketchbook but I just wasn't really that into how it was looking. I came up with the idea of having a map view of Hyde park morph into the lines of a skaters face. To do this I traced a couple of photos with he pen tool in illustrator.

Tom Jeffrey Other Pages

Cutting out 10 photos in Photoshop for 2 hours is one of the most effective ways to achieve chronic wrist pain. Other than that I was really happy with how the sequence turned out.

james Isles' Second page

Secret Spot Final Pages

To be honest I'm pretty annoyed that the images don't really look 3D. Some people say they do, some people say they don't. Next time I do something like this I now know the importance of putting in that cotton reel or increasing those shadows. Had I taken the other photos with objects in, I would have used those, but I felt it would be a bit odd if it was only the tre flip photo with a giant hand in the shot for example. In retrospect, another option would have been to place the woodblock type in the scene. This would have probably worked the best.

Woodblock type

I went down to Vernon street to photograph the woodblock type. Ollie recently suggested I should have dipped the ends of the blocks in the same paint that is flicked over the scene. What a good idea. Too late to do anything about it now though...

Trying to create a better sense of depth

I found a couple of objects lying around the studio that I could put in the scene. At the time I didn't realise how important it would be to give my images a better sense of depth. It was only when I looked at the images on my computer that I regretted not putting some objects in the other photos aswell.

Secret Spot cut-outs Photography

I made a quick mock up out of photocopy paper to see if my idea would work and then set about constructing the final scenes. I tried for ages to capture the paint I was flicking while it was mid- air but I think you would probably need a very high speed multi-shot camera to achieve this effect properly. As you see on the second image up, I got a bit carried away with this.