Hull Street Art

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Love or hate it, Hull has plenty of street art or graffiti. I spent an afternoon photographing various locations around Hull to find graffiti and street art. A friends son want to go take some photographs of street art for an art project he is doing for school.IMG_2888-Edit-Edit

I had been to several locations in Hull over the last few weeks to recce sites that may be worth photographing. I was surprised on the day how many places there are in Hull that have been decorated with street art. Many are very easily accessed by the general public.IMG_3096-Edit-Edit

Many of the sites we went to had been painted by “Si2”. A local graffiti artist who Jack had met when he was commissioned to paint his bedroom. It become a a game as we looked at the work to see who could find his signature tag first.IMG_2937-Edit-Edit

If you want to find the locations our self please click on the images below and follow the link to Flickr. This will give you a map of where the shots where taken.

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My Weekend Project…. Unusual Angle

Beyondmegapixels.com had a weekend project to take shoots at unusual angles. These where taken on a nature trail at Danes Dyke, Flamborough, East Yorkshire.

They where post processed as 3 exposures +/- 1 exposures and edited in Photomatix, Instagram style preset was added with Lightroom.

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Betty Banzai grunge style poster

Day 182/365 Playing with photoshop

Had a photo shoot at Sugar Mill Night Club in Hull. This is from the second shoot of the day. Model feature is Betty Banzai from Model Mayhem. I want to do a grunge type poster similar to this Dirty Grunge Poster and Simple steps to create impressive illustration. Also this list of 450+ grunge brushes helped.

bb01 Original image

bb02 Background cut and left white

bb03 Duplicated layer, then Filter -> Artistic -> Cut Out. Set blend mode to 60% opacity.

bb04 New layer render clouds then blur, add radial shape in new layer

bb05 Build up layer with grunge brushes and changing layer blending styles, altering graduated blend mode

bb06 Continue with other brushes

bb07 Show all layers

bb08 Then text layer with graduated layer style.