To explore romanticism i planned to visit 3 different places on different days so each image was varied with a different setting and weather. I planned to show an interest in the natural world, taking inspiration from Fay Godwin creating careful compositions and control over tonal values, light and atmosphere.

For this photograph I tried to find a path or stream to be in my image with a natural setting. I focused on the branches in the foreground of the image and left the background more out of focus emphasising the misty environment which creates more atmosphere in the picture. Fay Godwin photos mainly consist of natural environments with trees, fields and beaches which is where I went to take my images.

For my second photo shoot I decided to take my images around sunset creating a more romantic setting. Both images have clouds making them more atmospheric and interesting.  In the first photo I decreased the exposure to make the sea darker which emphasises the white and the rocks in the bottom half of the image. In the top half of the image i did not decrease the exposure, but did increase the contrast slightly and adjusted the levels to make the image more effective.

I also tried, when on one of my photoshoots, to take a panoramic on my phone to get a elongated field of view an dot get  wider view of the environment

Panoramic Photography:

Panoramic photography is a technique that stitches multiple images from the same camera together to form a single, wide photograph (vertical or horizontal). The term “panorama” literally means “all sight” in Greek and it first originated from painters that wanted to capture a wide view of a landscape, not just a certain part of it. The first panoramic photographs were made by simply aligning printed versions of film, which did not turn out very well, because it was close to impossible to perfectly align photographs. With the invention of personal computing, advancements in computer software and digital photography, it is now much easier to stitch digital images together using specialized software.