Monochrome

Left is a photograph I took to coincide with the idea of traditional landscapes with a modern twist; cityscapes as it were. I took the photograph close to waterloo station on a small cannon compact camera. I decided i wanted to enhance the point of London being a dirty city and so changed the photo into a negative on photoshop. This gave the effect of a smoky sky with ghost like buildings.

I then thought about the idea of colourizing the photo to give it that extra dimension as it felt a bit flat. I did this by copying the original layer to unlock it and changed the hue and saturation. I clicked colourize and changed the hue to a dark red tone. I then changed the lightness and made the red a more maroon colour, to create that dark and slightly mysterious look, almost like a scene in an early noir film.

I Liked the finished product because it didn’t really fit in with the tradition British landscape that Constable painted and later Turner because it didn’t have a foreground middle and background just a middle and background giving it a 2D effect.