Who

In these photo shoots I will not be trying to take photos of anyone in particular, I may have to take photos of crowds if they are surrounding the urban landscape that I want to take a photo of.

What

I will be taking photos of buildings/signs/graffiti/streets etc, I will also be changing the exposure on the camera to get a variety of tones, highlights and shadows. I will also attempt to focus on one particular part of the image (shallower depth of field) e.g. a road sign. Hope fully I will take some photos of buildings with graffiti on the side of them to add more colour to my images.

When

Throughout the next two weeks, I will be taking photos of urban landscapes at midday to have natural lighting, hopefully I will take a few photos at night to get photos of street lights and buildings lighting up the streets and maybe some photos of buildings at sun set to try and get some water tones from the the sun, such as: oranges and reds, reflecting off the windows of the buildings.

Where

I will be taking the majority of the photos in town/St.Helier as there are many urban landscapes in this area. Fort Regent may be a good place for a photo shoot as I can see all of town from that point of view.

Why

I will be taking photos of different landscapes at different times to get a variety of different photos. Photos taken at sunset will have warmer tones compared to a night time shoot with colder tones.

How

I will use a tripod and steady structures to take images at a balanced and steady position. I will also use the rule of thirds to line everything up right for some of my photos. I will change the exposure bracket to get more variety in my images and so I am able to make HDR images

Aperture is when your camera lens opens and closes that limits the amount of light passing through the lens and hitting the camera sensor. The lower the F-stop, the wider the opening of the aperture, meaning more light is passing through. While the higher the F-stop, the smaller the opening of the aperture, meaning less light is passing through.

Depth of field is the distance between the closest objects and furthest away objects in a photo that appears sharp. Your camera can only focus sharply at one point and in a photograph with a narrow DoF, only a small part of the image is in focus. On the other hand, with a large Do, more of the scene is sharp.

Woodlands and Fields(St.Ouens)

I took these photos before the sun went down to get the sun to shine through the trees and corn fields. I changed the exposure for some of the photos (exposure bracketing) to see how to the contrast/tonal values changed. I’ve selected my favourite images and decided which ones I won’t use.

Best Photos

I picked these images because each of them are different from each other and have something unique about them whether it’s the angle they’ve been taken from, the lighting or the scenery/individual trees. Each photo has something that the eye is automatically drawn to and they each have a main focus. Some things to point out about the uniqueness of some of the photo are: the corn in the first photo is the main focus and the background is blurred due to this, in the second photo I took the photo from a atmospheric perspective, in the third photo I took the image from a linear perspective and in the fourth photo I attempted to use the Fibonacci curve.

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Editing My Best Image

In this edit I used HDR toning to bring out the best colours and tones from high and low exposure and from the original photo. I like this photo because the depth of field is shallower than the rest of the photos.

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I adjusted the photo to black and white and I got inspiration to do this from Ansel Adams and I tried to get every shade in Adams’ zone system.

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Fields (St. Ouens)

These photos were taken just before the sunset. I also changed the exposure on some of these images to get different contrasts. I’ve selected my favourite images and decided which ones I won’t use.

Best Photos

I picked these images because each of them are different from each other and have something unique about them whether it’s the angle they’ve been taken from, the lighting or the scenery/individual trees. Each photo has something that the eye is automatically drawn to and they each have a main focus. Some things to point out about the uniqueness of some of the photo are: the bramble leaves in the first photo are the main focus and that is exaggerated even more due to the natural lighting from the sun shining through them, in the second photo the bushes each side of the path make the photo more or less symmetric and the light from the sun contrasts nicely with the darker looking hedges.

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Editing My Best Image

In this edit I used HDR toning to bring out the best colours and tones from high and low exposure and from the original photo.

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I adjusted the photo to black and white and I got inspiration to do this from Ansel Adams and I tried to get every shade in Adams’ zone system.

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Woodlands (St.Catherines Woods)

I took these photos at around midday and there weren’t any clouds over the trees so I managed to get some good images with the sun shining through the trees. I changed the exposure for some of the photos (exposure bracketing) to see how to the contrast/tonal values changed. I’ve selected my favourite images and decided which ones I won’t use.

Best Photos

I picked these images because each of them are different from each other and have something unique about them whether it’s the angle they’ve been taken from, the lighting or the scenery/individual trees. Each photo has something that the eye is automatically drawn to and they each have a main focus. Some things to point out about the uniqueness of some of the photo are: that the first photo has two logs which are symmetric (rule of thirds) and the third photo has repetition of the the two balancing logs, both of them are taken from linear perspectives, as for the fourth photo, it’s taken from an atmospheric perspective.

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Editing My Best Image

In this edit I used HDR toning to bring out the best colours and tones from high and low exposure and from the original photo.

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In this edit I sed my own adjustments to make the picture look more eye-catching and vibrant. I also enhanced the warmer tones in the photo, lowered the light intensity slightly and sharpened the image to show the textures of the bark better and to show the movement of the waters surface more clearly.

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I adjusted the photo to black and white and I got inspiration to do this from Ansel Adams and I tried to get every shade in Adams’ zone system.

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Who

I won’t be taking photos of anyone in this project as it is about taking photos of natural landscapes with no man made structures and preferably no people either.

What

I will be taking photos of woodlands/fields/beaches/cliffs, some of the photos will have a main focus, others won’t. I will also be changing the exposure on the camera to get a variety of tones, highlights and shadows. I will also attempt to focus on one particular part of the image (shallower depth of field) e.g. flowers in the foreground, then having the landscape showing e.g. trees, as the background.

When

Throughout the next two weeks, I will try and take photos of natural landscapes where the sun is rising or setting, I will most likely take photos of the sunset in St.Ouens because that’s where the sun sets. I will try and get some photos at night of the moon reflecting off the sea. As well as this, I will try to take some images at midday in the woods to get streaks of light shining through the trees.

Where

St.Ouens, St.Cathrines woods and St.Peters valley. I will take the photos from high points and lower points to get variety.

Why

I will be taking photos of different landscapes at different times to get a variety of different photos. Photos taken at sunset will have warmer tones compared to a night time shoot with colder tones. I will also be trying to capture images and make them relate to the theme of Romanticism.

How

I will use a tripod and steady structures to take images at a balanced and steady position. I will also use the rule of thirds to line everything up right for some of my photos. I will change the exposure bracket to get more variety in my images and so I am able to make HDR images.

Landscapes are all the visible features of an area of land, that are often considered aesthetically pleasing whether they have a lot of detail and a lot of colour or if they have a main focus in the photo and it’s in black and white. In my photo shoots I will attempt to have a lot variety in my photos whether i do this through camera settings or if I do edit them whilst using Photoshop.

Natural Landscapes

Paul Marcellini

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Ansel Adams

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Ideas

I will get inspiration from the photographers above when I’m taking my own photos. I will consider using the camera to make my imagers look different such as; using exposure bracketing and DoF as well as editing the images using HDR toning on photoshop.

Romanticism and its History

Romanticism was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe in 18th century, and in most areas it was mostly popular from 1800 to 1850. Romanticism has many characteristics, one of them being the emphasis on individuality. Compared to neoclassicism, romantic art relates to peoples emotions and is dramatic, often exotic, and at times, drawn from the artist’s imagination.

In 1916 Ansel Adams started experimenting with photography after he went to Yosemite National Park. He learned darkroom techniques and started read photography magazines, attended camera club meetings, and went to photography and art exhibits. He developed and sold his early photographs at Best’s Studio in Yosemite Valley.

Adams professional photography breakthrough occurred due to his first portfolio Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras, which included his famous image “Monolith, the Face of Half Dome” from this he became very successful through commercial assignments. Between 1929 and 1942, Adams’ work and reputation developed and he started working in New Mexico with other photographers such as: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe and Paul Strand.

Technical

• Lighting -the lighting in this image looks very dark and shaded with some natural daylight hitting certain points of the mountain and landscape. This allows the the photo to have more contrast and looks more manipulated to add more depth and intensity as well as there being over exposed areas, such as the snow on the mountain and there is also under exposed areas, such as the shadows and the trees near the bottom of the mountain.
• Aperture – The photo has been sharpened immensely to allow you to see the textures of the mountain and the slight details of the trees, such as their branches.
• ISO – The sensitivity in this image seems to be lower as it looks very clean and sharp. As for the contrast, it is very high and the very light white against the dark black make each other stand out more.

Visual

• The tones range in this photo from very light to very dark and this makes the textures of the mountain stand out even more. The shadows on the mountain look very 2D compared to the rest of the mountain as it’s mostly one block colour but the majority of the photo looks 3D and formed e.g. the majority of the mountain.
• Composition – Not all of the mountain seems to be in frame in this photo but the layout is made to make the mountain standout with a background with not much going on and the the foreground compliments the main focus of the photo. The white in the photo also leads the eye towards mountain as the snow is highlighting it.

Contextual

• This photo is meant to remind you of the beauty of nature with nothing man made in site. The romanticism in this photo also dramatizes the image to really amaze us. The trees in comparison the the mountain also exaggerates how humongous the mountain really is and compared to us also because those trees are most likely to tower over us and shows us how much more powerful nature can be compared to ourselves.

Conceptual

• I think the overall message behind this photo is to show hoe beautiful and drastic nature can be although you can’t see the image in real life and it’s in black in white, therefore dulling out the image but it still looking incredible.

1st Montage

Technical

• Lighting – The back ground photo is taken in natural lighting but my own photos (the hands holding the poppies) were taken with flash. The colour of the poppies are slightly saturated to contrast with the black and white hands and the soldiers are over exposed.
• Aperture -The majority of the photos in the montage are sharp except for the soldiers which have a grainier look due the opacity being lowered.
• ISO – The texture of the gravestones are the most noticeable and the soldiers have a higher light sensitivity.

Visual

• The majority of the colours in this montage are warm making the montage have positive connotations which juxtaposes the sadness of the thousands of gravestones. The tone of the montage is mostly lighter shades and the smooth texture of the sky contrasts with the rest of the photo making the most important things in the photo stand out e.g. the grave stones and the poppies. The repetition of the poppies and gravestones signify the importance of them. The space between the gravestones getting thinner the further you look into the photo gives the photo a 3D effect.

Contextual

• The soldiers faded look is to make them look more ghost like and to remind you that the graves are meant to represent actual soldiers who fought in the war.
• The poppies have been duplicated to show a high level of respect for the soldiers and to intensify that respect the saturation has been put up higher to make them stand out even more against the white gravestones.

Conceptual

• The overall idea of this montage was to remind people too pay their respect to the soldiers as we wouldn’t have liberated without them fighting.

2nd Montage

Edits for montage 2

How to extract colours from an image apart from one e.g. red

Click the add pipette and click the red and press ok. Then the red should be selected, then press delete.

3rd Montage

Edits For Montage 3

How to fade. Click the layer you want to fade and change the opacity.

I got inspiration from : Peter Horvath and Hannah Hoch.