I looked through the photos I took on the shoot and using the flag tool and the p and x keys I quickly selected any images that I wanted to take further, this also gave me the opportunity to hide any images which were technically inaccurate or that I didn’t like. After doing this I was left with around 100/350 images that had been flagged, I then went through these to narrow the selection down by giving each image a star rating. finally I went through the 4 and 5 star photos and highlighted my favourite 20 images in green.

Lewis Bush, a professional photographer helping us with this project, came into our lesson and sat down with each of us helping us to find a theme in our chosen 20 images which we could develop further to help our images look more unique. we discussed how I had taken a lot of photos in and around churches and that a common theme in my images could be religious symbolism. I had photos of the church structures, the people involved with them and interesting scenes I found within them.

After Talking to Lewis I refined my selection further so that I had a series of 6-10 images which had more in common and could lead to further development in my project. I quickly edited these photos in Lightroom by balance colours and highlight and shadows, I also slightly crop and straiten them if they needed it.

From this I am going to plan a second shoot where I focus in more on my theme and try to develop and link and style in my photos. I am also interested in experimenting using flash and channeling light so that only parts of the frame are illuminated, I did this this a few of my photos from the first shoot and really liked how they turned out.