These are the tidal times, and the times of first and last light, sunrise and sunset for the day that I am planning to take photographs.
For this photoshoot I visited three different beaches along the west coast of Jersey; Le Braye, Watersplash and l’Etach. I also visited Plemont Bay briefly. I took photographs around the predicted time of the low tide, 1100hrs.
The images I took from this shoot:
I felt that some of these images worked well because of how clear the image showed that it was low tide, and that some of the images were very natural. However, in some images there was the issue of ‘clutter’ signs and cars were taking away from the natural landscape and leading the viewer’s eye away from the subject of the photograph.
I then visited the same areas from the same position as the first set of images at 1300hrs, to show a middle ground between the low and high tide.
I felt that these images weren’t as effective because the tide had now come in slightly but it was not significant enough to show a drastic change and therefore they weren’t as exciting to contrast with the other images in the shoot.
What I would change/improve on for my next photoshoot.
From this photoshoot I have realised that I need to ensure that my images don’t have unnecessary clutter in them, such as signs, vehicles and people who would distract from the focus of the images. For my next photoshoot, I am going to take photographs from more angles in order for me to clearly show the contrasts between high and low tide.