Abigail West Photography

These photographs capture movement using different effects.

My personal project during my A Level course was movement. I chose movement because I felt I could expand my photoshop skills and play around with a wider range of tools. One of the routes I went down was sports. Because I had already captured a portion of photographs of various sports, I could use them to create final pieces. In a lot of these photographs I found a new technique to experiment with, called 'Motion Blur'. This allowed me to blur out part of the photograph, mainly the background, to emphasise the movement throughout the image. The majority of the photographs below show this technique. 

My favourite photograph I created in my A Level project captured the London Eye at a close angle. It took a lot of time and patience to edit but became very popular when shown to the public. With the effect of Motion Blur, I was able to emphasise the movement of the wheel. The result was better than expected, and after a few alterations to the colouring, I was able to achieve a vintage-looking photograph.

Another style of editing, which has been used a few times in this series of photographs, is layering. When I started to develop ideas using this technique, I couldn't stay off Photoshop because there were some many different outcomes. It is amazing how you can edit a photograph multiple times using the same technique and end up with various images.