My final images were chosen though a selection process, then I put them onto Photoshop to improve them further. I conducted minimal editing as I wanted them to be as raw as possible. On my Thailand photos because they were taken at night I focused on increasing brightness and exposure.

I collated all my photos into contact sheets on Photoshop. The red means I won’t be editing them, this could be because, they aren’t sharp or in focus. The zigzag green line means that the photo needs editing, for instance increasing/decreasing exposure, the striaght green line means that minimal editing is need, for instance cropping.

It’s a Southeast Asian country, known for tropical beaches, opulent royal palaces, ancient ruins and ornate temples displaying figures of Buddha. In Bangkok, the capital, an ultramodern cityscape rises next to quiet canal side communities and the iconic temples of Wat Arun, Wat Pho and the Emerald Buddha Temple (Wat Phra Kaew). Nearby beach resorts include bustling Pattaya and fashionable Hua Hin. I stayed in the in Karon, Phuket, this southern area is well known to tourists. Patong not too far away from where I stay it is very popular to young adults for it’s western culture and party night life. In my opinion this is sad, my dad he had visited Patong about 20 years ago was saying how he remembered it to be much nicer. When we visited Phi Phi Island, he was telling me how the coral used to be more colorful, there were hundreds more fish, half the amount of people, no litter and no Mcdonald’s. This urbanisation of Thailand is very disappointing in many ways but it’s the journey the country had to take to rebuild it’s self after the boxing day tsunami in 2004, which is the deadliest in history, it killed around 230,000 people. Thailand had to do something in order to stay afloat after this huge step back and the constant increase in other countries wealth. It was essential to their government to They used their stunning views and cheap exchange rate to make tourism their way of increasing their economic wealth. I wanted to express this idea through my photos by only taking them in the night and in land, of the busy towns and markets. In conclusion, I want to capture a series of photos of Phuket’s bust market places and town centres to create an idea of how tourist orientated Thailand is and how for the large majority of locals it’s their only source of income. This half of my concept also relates to the theme of journeys and pathways because I am aiming to empathsise the journey in which Thailand has had to take ever since the tsunami in order to keep it’s place in the world.

These are the final images I have chosen for this project. The majority are from one photo shoot as my other photo shoots didn’t go as well as planned; therefore resulted in mediocre outcomes.

This is a virtual photo gallery I have created for this project from some of my final images.

It is split up into three sections of photos grouped together based on their similarity. The first group on the left are in pairs of photos with similar colour grading and of similar objects, these being an engine and a gear selector.

I have chosen to put the middle photo on its own as its colour grading and effects don’t match those of my other final images.

The group on the right consists of the same original photo which has been edited in three different ways. One being filters and colour grading, another being colour mapping and masking, and the final being posterizing.

RED = Don't like the image/ technical problems with image

YELLOW = Considering/ unsure about using the image

GREEN = Definitely using the image as part of my final piece