Vintage adverts with modern products

For my current Visual Studies brief we have to create works showing juxtapositions in the image, word and context of the work as a whole,

The way I created these images was to take the context (time) and manipulate the words and images around that, to a person in say.. for example the 1940’s these advertisements would seem mind-blowing, amazing products with eerily strange futuristic designs, to us they are quite mundane objects, however, the text and layout of the images contradict today’s designs, and at a glance do not seem as if they would be advertising products in the year 2011.

 

As my project progresses, I plan to create more of these images, continuing on the ideas of playing with the context of time, and how images and words were presented in that era of time

SonyEricsson X10i Panorama Pictures IV – Birmingham

Ok, so i wasn’t going to post any more of these shots, but after the awesome reception that the third edition gained i have decided to put up some pictures from my trip out to Birmingham city center yesterday
Now with these shots lighting was not so much the problem, (until the clouds came over later in the day). The problem however was the mass of human traffic walking around and spoiling a lot of the shots,

 

Shots from inside the train and the bullring, my personal favorite has to be the second, the bowing of the glass and metal really make this image stand out, the shot was taken first time perfect as well which is always a bonus.
Some shots from inside the top floor Selfridges (left)
Albert street under construction (center)
and back in the bullring with different natural lighting (right)
Now for the horizontal shots..
 Shot from inside the bullring around mid-day
Millennium point – as you can see here the X10 struggles to line up the detail on the building
outside selfridgs, alot of people in this shot all moving around at once made it a hard one to capture
The train on the return journey home, sadly i only had a few seconds to get this shot and the guy walking infront of the camera spoiled the details on the left hand side, otherwise i feel this would have been a brilliant picture
Final picture of the day the station just before the train above pulled in, i like the detail in this image, i feel it was very sucessfull
Maybe I will post more on the Burntwood area in which I live, its a beautiful day at the time of writing this so i wouldn’t mind going out soon and taking some more images

SonyEricsson X10i Panorama Pictures

i have recently been messing around with a new Panorama app i got for my phone, the app is apparently exclusive to the x10 so i thought it to be worth posting up some pictures taken from it,

Over the last few days Ive been snapping a few panoramic pictures around and about,
a few from Birmingham City Center and the rest from Burntwood and around my house

I have to say its not the greatest panorama app in the world but it works well, I’m especially pleased with the shot of the pylon,

  
The app seems to work much better in vertical mode than horizontal, this is down to my hands not being steady i think as some of the images have got ‘wobbles’ and non matching sections
More shots to come…. 

Get the app for  XperiaX10 – http://www.xperiax10.net/2011/06/11/sony-ericsson-releases-panorama-app-for-xperia-x10/