Week 5 Weekly Tasks...
One of this weeks tasks involved experimenting with Photoshop's 'filter' tab and the 'crystallise' filter. The aim was to play around with the pixels in a series of different photographs from a different landscape character.
The first photograph was taken stood looking out of my front door on a wet, drizzly day. My first reaction was that the smaller pixels made it look like it was in fact raining outside my door, or as though my camera had rain droplets on the lens when taking the photo. The original photo was relatively simplistic to begin with, the sky, houses, car , bin and framing walls as the key features within the photo and the crystallise filter only accentuated this further.
I then took a photo from my camera roll of a forest, a natural, detailed photograph. The effect of the crystallise filter on this photo is vast. All of the trees in the background have become a brown blur, whereas the three trees in the foreground as well as the deadwood floor and the mossy tree roots have become the main focus of the photo. Even the smaller branches have become blurred, leaving only the more prominent tree features behind.
The final landscape I took was a cityscape photograph from Spain, Bilbao, a photo which I felt was more simple than the forest scene, yet more complex than the view from my front door. The pixels in this photo have intensified the reflection of the water in the photo and further defined the contours on the building. The lines of the different elements of the building somehow seem more defined in the areas of shadow and light, however are also blurred and distorted.
Overall, the use of the 'crystallise' filter creates a fragmented, simplifying effect on all of the photographs, the main composition of the photograph is in turn highlighted and minor details are blurred yet are not lost completely.
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