I have now published my project on the View from Leicester website under the VFL17 section as A Mini Tour of Leicester. Before publishing it I went out again to take two photos, one of which I’d use in the final post an another to use in a promotional post on the VFL Facebook page. The […]

With the photos I was posting on the Leicester Lego Man Instagram account I decided it could be improved by making use of the new “Gallery Feature” in Instagram that allows you to upload more than 1 photo in a post which the viewer can simply scroll right/left through the images. I had therefore thought […]

To start I firstly created the account I would use to post these images on Instagram. After a little thought I decided to go for the username “@LeicesterLegoMan” as this was fairly self explanatory as to what the account content would revolve around. The inclusion of Leicester in the name would be a benefit as […]

My final idea for the group project will be to create some spreadable media in the form of some unique photos based around Leicester that would likely catch the attention of other social media users and be used to tell a story in the captions by “advertising” the locations, being informative about the locations, tell the […]

I started to test one of the original group project ideas that I came up with to see what it would look like when actually created. I took the idea I had of combining several posted photos from social media of the same location posted by other people/users into a single “collage” photo. These different perspective […]

For this assignment the task was to make a “musicless music video” by taking a music video, muting the audio and then using a variety of appropriate sound effects to make up the audio to the video. My inspiration for this assignment was from the short example given on the assignment page giving examples of how […]

For this assignment the task was to create a “find the difference” picture with at least 6 differences. My inspiration for this was my photography work in which I edit objects and things out of photos all the time to get a polished “perfect photo” look. For example this piece of previous work below comparing a […]

For this assignment the task was to create a story using Google Maps about a trip that you have taken. This would be done using the directions tool on Google Maps by entering the start location and then 1 or more destination locations. My inspiration for this was from one of the other examples where someone […]

For this assignment the task was to create a business card.   My inspiration for this assignment was from my Photography work which I actually needed to create a business card for at some point in the near future. This assignment therefore served as a useful opportunity to actually create a business card that I may actually […]

For this assignment the task was to create an animated mosaic about a movie using a single image that then splits up into a grid of 9 different animated GIF images of various scenes in the movie. My inspiration for this was from the Jaws example on the assignment page and from my last mashup assignment which was […]

For this assignment the task was to create a mashup of two iconic movie scenes. It was said that we should aim to be as subtle as possible with the mashup image. When viewing the assignment page I thought that the main given example simply puts the “Wilson” ball from the movie Cast Away as a second moon onto a minor […]

For this assignment I had to create a video of the a “day in my life” which meant filming what I did or what happened during a particular day and editing it together into a video. When thinking about this task I took inspiration from the YouTubers Casey Neistat and Sam “SeenThroughGlass” (who I ended […]

I have a couple of ideas about what I could make for the VFL17 Group Project which include: Dear Photograph Style Photos – Using old photos of Leicester I would mimic the style of Dear Photograph by printing them out and taking a photo of them framed within the same locations showing how it has […]

For this mock marked post I chose this assignment  which involved the creation of a silly movie poster. Above you can see what I have created using Adobe Photoshop. I started by using a blank template of the Jurassic Park poster which I found on this website.  My inspiration was to blend the dinosaur character Rex […]

I have now finished Unit 3 by completing 3 Daily Creates, the Visual Story task and 5 Card Flickr Story task. Out of all of these the most enjoyable was probably Daily Create #1709 as I found this quite fun to carry out due to its content and the simplicity of it. @ds106dc Desktop dozen! #tdc1709 […]

Using Kurt Vonnegut’s ideas about outlining the shape of stories through visuals and after taking inspiration from Maya Eilam’s work I created the following image:     This image represents the basic plot of the movie  Jurassic Park  and was created in Adobe Photoshop using images sourced online (and linked below:) Image References: Happy Face Graphic […]

For Unit 3 we had to create a 5 Card Flickr story which is a story based upon 5 randomly picked images from the Flickr tag. The images for my story were picked using this website and can be seen below:   The story I have created for them is: “Life is all about the journey; […]

For this daily create the task was to make a photo of 12 interesting things. Above you can see the photo I took with 12 different Hot Wheels cars that were on my desk (hence the title). For the execution of the photograph I drew inspiration from an Instagram account that I follow called “myvideobag” […]

This daily create involved blending two photographs taken in different places together to create a panoramic image to make it seem as if it was one photo. Above you can see the panoramic image I created using photos I took in Venice (left) and Bologna (right). While this is not the most realistic combination of photos I […]

This daily create involved capturing the sunset in a video. Above you can see a timelapse of the sunset from my window as you can see the setting sun reflecting in the building windows. I created this video using a Canon 700D and an intervalometer  to take a photo every 10 seconds until it was completely dark outside. […]

For this unit I have customized my blog to my liking by using a simple and effective theme layout. I have not added a header image but merely selected a colour I like since I like the simplicity and professional look this gives to the blog. (Also WordPress really downgrades the quality of header images […]

For this assignment we had to take a moment from on of our favourite movies and turn it into a GIF animated image which captures the essence of a key scene. For this I chose the movie Need For Speed which is one of my favourite movies due to it’s automotive subject and since I used to […]

This daily create was about creating a image in the same style of those created by Thai photographer Chompoo Baritone in which Instagram posts are framed in the original images to show the full picture rather than what the user has selected to post. For my version of this I took a post from my automotive […]

For this daily create we had to create a poster of 5 people for our “dream team” who we would like to work with some day. Above you can see the image I created in Adobe Photoshop of the 5 people I selected that I would like to work with some day. Casey Neistat is […]

For this daily create we had to use Google Streetview to find a plsace of interest which we hadn’t and will most probably never visit in our life. @ds106dc #tdc1751 Ebisu Circuit in Japan, the most iconic drifting track! #ds106 pic.twitter.com/eeBiYZ27n7 — Hugh B (@Hugh_B_) October 27, 2016 For this as you can see above I chose Ebisu Circuit […]

The links to my social media profiles can be found at the top of my blog under the title. @ds106dc Long Exposure! #tdc1422 #ds106 pic.twitter.com/9EmwwPM9Vn — Hugh B (@Hugh_B_) October 18, 2016   My about page can be found here! The daily creates that I have done so far have been quite fun and have been Photography […]

For this daily create we had to take a photo of two similar objects of different sizes. For this I took a photo of a 1:64 scale Ford Focus RS next to the actual car. I did this rather than the option of choosing another object because of my Automotive Photography and through it I have […]

This photograph from my window for the daily create was spontaneous due to the double rainbow that appeared during the changing weather. If you wish to view this daily create you can do so here: http://daily.ds106.us/tdc1740/ My submission: https://twitter.com/Hugh_B_/status/788485690057224192

For this Night Photography I decided to venture to a place I’ve been a few times in Leicester and take a long exposure shot of the night time traffic passing by. Night Photography and especially light trails in particular is always very interesting in long exposure shots (You may also notice the traffic lights are […]