Experimenting

In my final poster, I'm working with photography. And when I went to Brighton to take my Bandstand picture, a couple of weeks ago, I took a couple of other photos, and when looking at them on my laptop, I thought why not try some additional poster designs with these pictures. 

So I made two additional posters, one with a picture of the pier taken from the ferris wheel, and another one with a photograph of a friend of mine holding a blank poster,  inspired by a poster of an opera that I saw a couple of years ago. 

To be honest, I don't really like the second one, it turned out to be completely different from what I wanted it to look like, and I think that the contrast between the black and white photo and the pink and blue text is a bit too intense. 

BUT, I really love the first poster, although it is very simple. I think what makes that poster so special is the angle from which the photograph was taken. I've seen loads of pictures from the Brighton Pier, but I've actually never seen one taken from the ferris wheel. 

Working on some additional posters 'just for fun' has actually not been very useful for my final design portfolio, but it has definitely helped me to experiment with the different programs once again.