I recently took a trip to Llandudno and was inspired by the nostalgic feel of the pier. I took some fuji instax prints as well as some digital photographs which I edited afterwards using Photoscape editing software. I’ve just been playing with layering images, vignetting, using different ‘film’ effects, contrast/saturation of colours, textures and adding liner gradients. (Some worked better than others)
The last one isn’t great because I still haven’t learnt how to layer images properly and smoothly yet, but you can get a sense of where I want to go with it. I love playing with the different filters to produce darker, uneasy images to show the bittersweet memories I have connected with the place. I deliberatly tried to convey a sense of isolation when I was composing the photographs to contrast it with earlier childhood images I have at this place. When I was manipulating these photographs in photoscape I was generally inspired by Wendy Bevan’s work in her personal album – ‘Beach ’06-’09) Here are a few examples:
Wendy Bevan - Beach '06-'09
Wendy Bevan
Wendy is a fashion photographer but uses Polaroids and film to convey a different sense of time. You can see more of her work here.
Love the pictures of the pier, I worked in the cafe at the end way back in 1963 for a couple of years during the school holidays, lovely memories of my home town
Oh wow! That’s amazing. I’ve been googling some old pictures of what it was like in the 50s/60s. It is such a lovely place. I have a lot of very happy childhood memories from that place.
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