War Tunnels Visit

Background information: During world war 2 the crown and the british government demilitarized the channel islands leaving it defenceless. The war tunnels were made by the nazis as a field hospital. The tunnel was carved in the hill by over 5,000 slaves and other forced labour workers. There are over 1,000 of tunnels and they go more than 50m deep underground. The tunnel is now a tourist attraction telling the stories of the people who lived in Jersey during the occupation both civilian and German. There are also other attractions on the site like an escape room and a cafe.

Planning: For this shoot I will need to be prepared for how dark it will be, if it was a private area and I had a large amount of time I would bring a lighting rig or atleast a speedlight but as it is a busy day and is open to the public I will just have to try my best to fix any lighting problems in camera. I am fortunate as I have a camera that is able to go to a high iso as a maximum and then the lower iso grades will be sharper where as other cameras may struggle more in the low light.

Editing:

From 116 images I then narrowed it down to this selection of 15 by looking at things like lighting, composition and other fine details.
Then out of those 16 i selected my 6 final images. Was based on factors like if the subject was the same in two images which looked the best.
I then edited those six coming out with 6 final images that are all in colour as I thought that they were already too dark and I didn’t want them to be mostly black.

For my final images they all have quite warm lighting, i think this fits the aesthetic I was going for because everything I photographed is quite old or is made to look old and then the older style of lighting is tungsten which gives off a very warm light.

This image shows the warm aesthetic that is synonymous with the wartime. It is also composed as a top down and was taken from just next to the light source, it also has the typewriter framed slightly to the bottom to show the details on the desk. There is also a natural vignette because of the way the light was shaped.

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