Dundee Promenade - Photo Editing Practice

For these two images I edited some photos I took a while back and turned them into an advertising campaign for Dundee's waterfront. One as a day version and one as a night version with aesthetic simple compositions.

Night Version

Though the night version has quite cool colours, it still has a friendly atmosphere due to controlled shapes and space, like the repetitive street lights pattern on the right and the large plain surfaces on the left to thirds. The colour scheme is very monochrome and helps unify the picture. To prevent the image from being to calm I chose a tilted camera angle to capture the horizon slightly diagonal, which helps create a more interesting and dynamic image.

 Day Version

For the day version I edited two photographs together to avoid something too generic. The right third being lighter than the two left thirds. This was both as compositional choice as well as a lighting choice, as I wanted to tone down the light source (the sun).

By previously flipping one of the images horizontally (as both photos were taken in the same direction) the seaside walking path surrounds the scene and creates a 360 degree panoramic effect.

Colour wise the sun and its orange light dominates the image creating warm colours and a welcoming mood.