After school in the evening when the light was fading, I drove too St Aubins bay to do a photo shoot focusing on the movement of the sea.  The light was good for the shoot because it was cool and bright which enabled me to easily capture the details of the sea. The light was also reflecting off the water which created a really nice effect. I used a canon camera for the shoot and focused in on the shapes and movement of the current. I used a medium focal point to capture the images because it was easier to get all the detail I wanted because of the constant movement of the tide. I had to use a very fast shutter speed to be able to capture the images in a good quality.

When editing the images I choose the best quality and range of scenes and objects. I edited the images using Photoshop because I wanted to do simple edits to each image rather then do them all as one block edit. When editing the image I simply changed the contrast, brightness and added more vibrancy to the images to make them more visually interesting.

As well as abstract close ups of the sea and the movement of the waves, I also captured different things that I noticed during the shoot. I captured these because I wanted to contain a variation within the series. I also edited these images in Photo shop to changed the brightness and contrast, and also to add more vibrancy to the images. I wanted the images to be bright and pure because this was the type of effect I was trying to create throughout my whole series.

After researching about William Eggleston and learning about why he took his sky images, I decided to do a shoot of my own of the sky and clouds during the sunset. I choose this time of day because the sun effects the sky by creating different colours which is a beautiful thing to capture on a camera. There are many  different abstract shapes and textures that are created.

I edited the images using photoshop because I wanted to bring out the natural colours that were created. I am very happy with my result and believe it goes very well with my project because I am capturing something that happens everyday, but we tend to ignore or not notice. I have managed to capture something insignificant in a beautiful way.

COMPARISON

The image below is one of the edits from my photo shoot of the sky during evening time. Its an image of a cluster of clouds captured in front of the dark blue sky behind. There is little going on in the image which is what makes it beautiful because its simple yet powerful at the same time. I really like the colours in the image because they have a subtle warmth within them created by the sun setting. This is the main difference between mine and Egglestons. My image is darker and more atmospheric because of the time of day the image was taken. The clouds contain a yellow and pink tinge which makes the image more visually interesting for the viewer. Eggleston’s image has less contrast of tones between dark and light. It also has contains less of a range of colours.

MINE

EGGLESTON

After school I went out with my camera to take some images of different things I found. Since my project is about insignificant things and imperfect beauty I mainly tried to look for the tiny details that we usually ignore. My project is also about growth and decay so I tried to find things to link to this such as the beginning of a growing flower or a decaying leaf. My project is about life in general so I also took images of tiny insects such as ants. However I wanted my images to by visually interesting so I looked for certain angles and frames and different ways I could use the subject such as holding the ant in my hand rather then just capturing it on the floor. I images are taken in my garden, house and also in green Island beach. They were all taken after school. Most of them have a small f stop because I wanted to highlight only the smaller details that I wanted the viewer to take in.

I used Photoshop to edit the images because I wanted to create the same atmosphere as I did for my previous shoots. It was the brightness that I wanted to replicate but I didn’t have to edit the image that much because I used the camera settings to create the aesthetic I wanted. Some images suited a black and white filter better then colour because it revealed the finer detail much more. When editing the images into black and white I used a much larger contrast because this made more of a difference between the dark and light areas which makes the image more visually interesting.