Danny Allison Inspired photography

Danny Allison

This is the work of Danny Allison. The work stands out because of the 

serious tone brought through the image. There is not a wide use of colour only more dark colours. This makes the work more realistic and gritty. I like that the work looks natural, and its just a portrait of ordinary people.

I really like the work of Danny Allison and here is photography I have created. I focused on the eyes of my subject, as everyone eyes are individual and different each telling a story. I done the work in black and white because Allison's work is not is bright bold colours, and it focuses on the subject and the story instead of a fancy image. With a zoom lens I was able to create clear close-up images, which I really like. I wanted to focus on only the eyes because the eyes relate to the imagination and the brain and as my piece is dream-like it works well to relate to it.

Here is an Adobe Photoshop edit I created using the eyes I had photographed. I layered the different photographs on top each other and played with the opacity tool, to make some photographs more transparent than others.

Below is a photograph of an eye I had taken, I then put it into Photoshop and changed the gradient so it looked like a purple filter had been put through it. I then merged this photograph with the photograph I had taken from my trip to London, and used the Hard Light tool to make the photograph of the eye transparent. I like the outcome of the photograph, and think it looks quite gritty and real like the photography of David Allison.