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Bunker Archaeology: Editing images

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To start on the bunker archaeology project, I took a series of 400-500 images at a location known for it’s German bunkers. The site at which I took my images had a wide range of WW2 German military architecture, which had been renovated by the States of Jersey in order to preserve the memory of the occupation. The following are a selection of images that I took on the day:

After taking the initial images, I imported all of the images into Adobe Light-room in order to pin down my selection of images, and to edit the images before exporting them back into my “Final Images” folder. I used a process of rating and colour coding in Light-room in order to nail down my images to ~10 final selections (these were the ones that I was going to put time into editing). Below is a series of screenshots of the editing process in Light-room:

The above is a screenshot of the editing process of a black and white image. I decided to change some of my images into black and white, as for some images it helps to emphasize the contrast between colors, textures and depth.
I cropped the majority of the images that I took as a first step in the editing process. This was to cut out parts of the boarders of the images that I did not want, or to draw more attention to certain areas of the image.
I used a colour coding system to label my images so that I could select images that I felt were the best candidates to edit. Green = definite final image, yellow = possible final image, red = rejected at this stage.
My initial move in the editing process was to decide which images to reject, and which to give further attention to. I did this using the flag system in Light-room. The images that i rejected mainly consisted of copies, blurred images, and those that I did not feel could be improved by further editing.
My edited my final images in Light-room, and my 12 final images post-editing can be seen above:

After selecting my final images, I was able to edit these images, changing some of them to black and white, and increasing the contrast of others in order to emphasize the contrasting shadows, shapes and textures. The following images are my final images from this particular photo-shoot:

As these are my final selected images from this shoot, I will be further editing them in order to use them in my photo-montage experimentation and further final images and creations for this project.

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