Following on from the modern day photography conventions, I decided to do another photo shoot focusing in on sunset shots. Thus, helping me to portray the stereotypical shot that people take and upload to Instagram and Facebook from their phones.  People always imagine and dream of the ‘perfect sunset’ consisting of pink/orange and teal colors however this is a very rare thing to actually come across. Therefore people often will edit their photos to portray this dream sunset and create a more interesting photo which are my intentions for this shoot. The contextual ideas behind this shoot is that in this modern day everyone is able to capture photos from their phones and the most common photographed thing is the sunset which people usually do each day. Thus being a convention of our everyday lives, if there is a good sunset.

Contact Sheet

Edits

Through these edits I am starting to look into the social expectations of people and what they expect our earth to be like. I have done this by exaggerating colors and saturation to create a more pleasing image. This links to modern day photography conventions in the way that advertisement campaigns will make destinations look a lot better than they actually are through saturated colors making grass more green or skies more blue. In my images I have manipulated the sunset colors to make it more aesthetically pleasing.