20200328-Project-Childhood-Memory

recreate a childhood memory in a photograph.

Brighton View from Windsor

Well, this has been a challenge in itself with the whole lockdown. How will I create something when we are in lockdown and not allowed to travel. Exercise yes but it wouldn’t be a good decision to travel to where I was brought up in Brighton. So what are we supposed to do in these strange times?

Who better to ask than family members. I thought about the views I enjoyed as a child. First, that comes to mind was the seafront and views of Brighton’s West Pier. If your not aware of it, its become a mystical place in my eyes. It’s pretty mesmerising when you’re sat or stood looking at it. But that wasn’t going to be achieved and not the kind of burden id place on my Dad.

My Dad was the person that got me into photography in the first place and knew he still has a camera and thought about using dad to take an image I wanted. Growing up as a child we had great views over to the South Downs and the fields that surround Brighton, in particular, the view I had from my shared bedroom with my brothers. I would look out to the hills and wonder whos out walking and venture out. The place I could always see was the Chatri a War memorial for the Indian Soldiers from WW1.

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It gave my Dad something to do and assist me. The idea was for dad to take and image of which I could use. No editing just SOOC image not worrying about the state of the picture just about building the memory.

To build this image was something id thought about for some time, overly this image on an image from my window in Windsor. Using myself in the image with a double exposure trying to portray one view from Windsor and the other from Brighton. Using photoshop to blend both images and reduce the opacity so that the image can be seen.

Double exposure and use of layers in PS

Bibliography

Wikipedia. (2020, March 29). Chattri, Brighton. Wikipedia. Retrieved March 28, 2020, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattri,_Brighton [assesed 20200328]