photography overview

At first i needed to replace me camera with a new one as the other one couldn't take the close up shots i needed for me exam. However it still couldn't take really close up shots and next time i need a better lense. perfeably a telescopic one. I found some of me brothers toys like lego and building bricks to recreate iconic album covers. I had to use white paper around the lego creations to shield it from light as it is a bright plastic material and it catches shine. I had to improvise with the few lego mini- figures me brother had. On the abby road cover harry potter had to double up as john lennon as we didn't have another figure with glasses on. When it came to editing the plan was to use pop art. And i used the hue slider to change the color of the photo then posted it on to a new document and did the same again, so it was like andy warhol style. On my Stanley road recreation i drew a whit box and put a big thick black stroke around it, so it was like a road sign. Then put the font in stencil so it was thick and black like a road sign. I also did other techniques like stamp and drawing but kept with the bright, colorful, pop art theme. 

1. i have took the image of blondies iconic image and recreated it out of lego. I had to improvise with me brothers lego pieces but it looks like a acceptable version of it. I had to mix and match the pieces to make them look like the singers. I used some building bricks i found as the stripy background. Then i uploaded it to the computer and started editing. I first used a rectangle marquee to select a smallish bit of the photo and used the hue slider to change it and i did this process in stripes so it was like pop-art

2. i did the same thing for my eninem  recovery c.d. but instead of doing vertical stripes i did more wider vertical stripes and i cropped it so the top and side bits weren't showing. I am a bit worried that the album isn't iconic enough.

3. I recreated paul wellers iconic album Stanley road by opening a new document and copying the picture 4 times but doing a different hue each time. I recreated the sign by creating a white box and putting a big, thick, black stroke around it. Then i wrote in Stanley road i a bold stencil font.

4. I did the same thing with the smiths album cover, I copied it four times and used a diffrent hue each time. i cropped the top off as it had too much of a shine to it and it made my lego smiths more close up. For the title i used a simple times new roman font in light blue.

5. For my beatles album i recreated the legendary abbey road by using blue and white bricks as the the zebra crossing and standing the lego figures across it. I then did the top half in a purple hue and the bottom in pink and green. I used me brothers toy cars and playmobil trees for the background

6.  for my sex pistols recreation. I recreated the  album with  the toy solider in front of it. Luckily me brother had a solider   mini-figure. I did its head in purple. His top in yellow  and his bottom in green. It was hard to recreate this one as it has a lot of soldiers, and i only had two to use

7. in this one i improvised on the fact that i only had two soldiers. As one of the soldiers has fallen down and there all standing around him. so i put other lego figures around him and made sure i only took their legs. I then did two vertical boxes with the rectangle marquee. So i did half pink and half blue

first parts (not all loaded up yet and not in the right order)