First Edits

Edit No.1

Edited with PhotoShop

Original Image

After using the de-noise filter on the image, I began to remove objects from the background which detracted from the isolated atmosphere of which I was trying to create. To do this I used the clone stamp tool, which covered the objects with black patches from the darker background. 

I really like the end result as it features the dark and light contrast I wanted to create, with florescent lighting, illuminating a structure within a pitch black night scape. Similar to Panos Kokkinias' imagery. I also think the form and composition work well with the subject of the image as it shows the depth and different 

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Panos Kokkinias Analysis

Using infinite blackness to isolate places is what draws me to Kokkinias' photos. This darkness within his imagery creates a sense of isolation, of a non space. Showing a space that has no purpose or just a singular use, makes me almost feel like the place has been used and abused. For it has been utilised for one purpose, and not appreciated as a thing of beauty -  more of a thing of function. However within these industrial and bare structures/spaces Kokkinias has found beauty within its fluorescent lit steel angles. 

Ed Ruscha Analysis

With blocks of colour and gradient skies, Ruschas imagery is bold and cartoon like. This is what makes his work easily identifiable as his own. His style of creating surrealist landscapes covered with propaganda like text, which in reality says nothing but nonsense and is seemingly unrelated to the image which it is placed upon. Although I am more interested in the composition and colour of Ruschas work I still like the juxtaposing forms of the images and text. 

The composition of these to images isn't dissimilar, in the sense that they both feature very flat layers, which create an aesthetic of 2D images layered like stacked paper. This is seemingly done by giving the "layers" different lighting or colours. For example the bottom image shows a very red sky, contrasting against the white/grey concrete building in front of it. In reality the bright red sky would cast a red hue onto objects beneath it. This difference in colour and lighting give a surreal and alien feel to the atmospheres within the images.