CCTV effect:
I was inspired to try and create this effect myself by James Russell cant's series of images known as 'Haringey', whereby he photographed youths both in normal images, and then he edited these images to make this appear as though the youths were on CCTV, which is often associated negatively with youths stealing and committing other crimes- this series challenged societies perceptions and beliefs. Therefore I chose to edit some of my shoot two images of my elderly neighbour smoking, to make this appear as though she too was on CCTV.
Firstly I opened up the image I wanted to edit in photoshop, next I placed a filter over this by clicking on 'filter' at the top of the page, then selecting 'filter gallery', and then choosing the filter 'diffuse glow.'
After this I double clicked on the background layer and made this a normal one just by clicking 'OK' ion the following pop up that came up:
After this, I then selected the elliptical tool, and drew a circle around the area of the image I wanted to highlight.
After this was done I then inverted the selection, which then selected all of the background around my chosen area, before then clicking the backspace button on the keyboard, which deletes all of this area.
Once I was left with the cropped circle, I then went to the crop tool in order to crop around the circle, and make a smaller square around the circle. I then went to file and save as to save my image.
The image below is the overall outcome of this computer experiment:
I like the overall grainy effect as CCTV is often not clear, therefore this is realistic to actual CCTV. I believe the meaning of this image is now changed as it now challenges societies perceptions of elderly and the youth, as usually you would expect to see youths smoking on CCTV at night, not elderly ladies. Moreover the inspiration from Russell James Cant heavily influenced, and aided me when trying to create this image.
A few more images I tried to experiment with:
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