After having used Adobe Lightroom to have a look through all of my images from the Battery Moltke we went through a selection process which consisted of us flagging our images we thought had potential even after some minor editing. We were asked to star them from 1 to 5 then the images with at least 3 stars of higher would have narrowed a smaller selection of images. The final step was to simply choose to colours and have one be for yes and the other be for the no pile.
After having decided what images we would use for our final ones we then had to experiment with them by cropping them and editing there colour to black and white. We did this so we could see the way that those images maybe would have looked at the time if they were photographed then, it adds elements of antiqueness which makes the images generally more emotive to look at .
Below are my experiments of cropping and editing the colour:
CROPPING EXPERIMENTS:
Using the cropping tool on Adobe Lightroom – This is the image before and below is the image after. I have decided to make the image smaller because I think there is too much white space in the background. I feel like the image is mainly focused on the Cannon therefore by taking the negative space away it highlights the cannon more.
I changed the image as well to black and white because as our topic is about the occupation i feel like it fits well as most people in those days would have the majority of their images in black and white. I edited things like the vibrancy of the image to have things really stand out like the camo paint on the cannon which was not originally like that. My only problem with some of my images was the lighting as i found that the day of the trip the lighting in general was quite dim as it was fairly cloudy therefore I am going to re- visit the Battery Moltke and experiment with different angles and colour exposure. I am also going to go to noirmont and capture images of different bunkers just so I have a variety of different shapes and sizes.
This is my second image I have chosen from the Battery Moltke is the image above. After having played around with different sizes which I am going to insert below I came to the conclusion that if I was to have displayed this onto an A4 page I would probably crop it slightly smaller to allow the background to enhance the photo which I would also position around the centre of the page.
