Final city images

What I did was merge my cousins photos with my photos and changed the opacity unitl I felt both photos shined through enough, I then turned the images black and white because I thought in colour they were a little too busy and confusing, this way it's more obvious that my main theme is 'the city'. The photos show a change between a childs viewpoint and my viewpoint, I find it interesting how the photos show more than one persons view of the city in one photo. I chose to merge the photos rather do something like place them side by side because like I said before, It's interesting to see more than one persons view of the city in one photo rather than two seperate ones. It shows that we all see the same things but just in different ways. I am happy with these photos, I think they are definately stronger when they're all together. I'm not particularly keen on the big wheel image, I think its too left side heavy, it's different to the other photos in the way that they're very busy and are full of detail.

Development

I gave my 1 year old cousin my digital camera whilst it was on video because I wanted to see what the video would turn out like and it gave me the idea to ask another young cousin of mine to take photos around the city, I wanted to see what he would photograph without any influence. I thought the photos he took would show me the view he has of the city, it ties in nicely with previous series of works ive done for this brief of seeing things through other peoples eyes. Me, my 4 year old cousin and his mum went to Manchester, I gave him my camera and said whenever you want to, take a photo of something, after looking at his photos I then stood where he stood and captured what he tryed to capture using another camera, I wanted to show the difference in what we see and how we see it. The photos shown below are the final images I selected from the many that I chose to re-create in his style. So the photos were taken by me but look almost identical to the photos he took on that day, I re-took them only so the work would be classed as my own.

He didn't intend on cutting the view off the image and didn't intend on some being blurry, these things happened because of the eagerness to move on, he didn't stay in the same spot to take a photo for more than about 2 seconds at a time. I re-created his images in my own way to show the contrast in skill, patience and creativity but still I wanted the photos to be recognisable as re-creations of his photos. My photos taking in my own style are shown below.