I decided to keep my folio down to my best city skyline photos along with maybe some of my best natural landscape and texture pictures that clearly show my intention.
Originally I intended to go with very abstract photos from the unique and different parts of the city that also showed how the Urban landscape was transformed by natural and unnatural light.
However I found myself taking more and more pictures of Melbourne's most recognised buildings such as the Eureka and the Rialto along with some other unknown buildings on Collins street.
The idea of presenting the photos as a pdf book was decided on when I realised it would show the transformation and completely different look that the varying light gave the buildings best as I could show two photos on opposite pages at the same time to give better impact.
I ran into some problems with some of the photo quality especially in regards to noise interference as I wanted the photos to show a very natural and the particularly smooth clear skies. This was a result of only having a 4.0 mega pixel camera on me at the time that I took some of the photos. However, they still turned out ok.
Once I had put all of the photos into the pdf book file I realised the texture photos and reflecting lights off natural objects such as the ocean and plants really did not fit in or get my intention across so I kept it down to just the three buildings The Rialto, Eureka and 550 Colllins Street building with the multiple shots I had taken at different times of the day and night.
I did also include one abstract picture I took on South Bank one night of a lamp post that I put as the front cover because I thought it represented my initial idea and overall intention the best which was to show not only the city lights but how light constantly changes and transforms the cities surface appearance and overall look. In addition, I think this could also symbolise the essence of Melbourne's Central Business District and how the many small and big businesses have to contstantly change and improve their overall look and representation to keep up with the times.
