Photo-Shoot

When we went to the archives to learn about what archives contain and are, we also went on a second walk around town. We went to places linked to the French quarter of the Community.

Filter Through Images

From the 395 images taken on the walk, I chose to flag 68 of the best to then choose a few for my final outcomes.

I then went on light room and gave each of the remaining 68 images a colour. Either green for the best, yellow for the ones I am unsure about and finally red for the ones I will not use.

From the 68 images I flagged as good, I only gave either green or yellow to less than half of them leaving 30 to be looked at further and finalized. I chose to use the 13 images I rated as green that would be edited and used as the best from the photo shoot.

Before and After Edits

To edit the original image above, I cropped and aligned the image before adding the photo colour preset vivid to the image. This preset added drama to the clouds making them slightly blue and much more distinct. Next I slightly lowered the exposure bringing out the details in the highlights. I then increased the contrast making the blacks darker and whites lighter creating a deeper sense of drama in the image. I then lowered the highlights as I felt that the image was too bright and the clouds didn’t have a lot of detail because of the brightness. I then increased the dehaze removing the foggy feel of the clouds bringing out a contrast between the blue window and red sky. Finally I increased clarity slightly to make the clouds more vivid and dramatic.

To edit the image above, I cropped the image so that the image was aligned with the pole to the right of the image. I also changed the colour preset to vivid to bring out the harsh blacks and bright whites to contrast each other. It also gives the plants a deeper green and flowers brighter yellow. I also slightly lowered the exposure to bring out the finer details and increased the contrast to make the blacks darker and whites lighter.

To edit the image above, I first cropped the image so that the figure was central and was the only focal point. I next applied the vivid filter to bring out the diverse colours and slightly played around with the temperature. I then increased the contrast and played around with exposure. I then decreased highlights slightly and played around with the hue and saturation of all the colours to make them pop more. Finally, I increased clarity to make the contrast between the colours sharp and precise.

Edited Final Images

For this shoot, I walked around most parts of the French/Portuguese quarters. I took many photographs of the community, where they live and their local businesses.

Best edited images contact sheet

Favourite Image

This is my favourite image because it shows the similarities within a community and how many people within it have similar interests and can get along. Such as these two people getting along and posing for the camera mid-conversation.

I like this photo because of the high contrast from the shadows adding depth to the image. This is shows in the garage where the light on the motorbike fades to black as it gets further away and deeper into the room. I also like the texture and patterns on the walls behind both of the subjects, it adds variation to the image making it less flat.

Narrative

STORY: What is your migrant community story?
Describe in:

1. 3 words – A migrant community.
2. A sentence – How migration to Jersey in the past affected current times.
3. A paragraph – My migrant community story is about how immigration to Jersey from hundreds of years ago has affected current Jersey life and architecture in ethic areas. It focuses on the difference of buildings and genuine life within these areas, depending on which ethnic group resides there.

NARRATIVE: How will you tell your story?

Using my own images from walking round St Helier and comparing my images to images from the Jersey Archives of the same areas from the past and how these areas have changed.

AUDIENCE: Who is it for?

My story will be aimed at the older generation of immigrants to Jersey as I feel like it will resonate well with that age group and create a sense of nostalgia, as well as proving how Jersey has changed throughout the years.

Sequencing

In terms of sequencing, I want to keep a pattern of juxtaposition. To do this, I will use contrasting images of both vibrant colour as well as monochromatic images. I was also alternate between sizing and orientation, and also using double page spreads. This will create my theme of Jersey life, which will feature street photography portraits as to represent the citizens of Jersey in their day-to-day life.

Here is an example of how I would sequence my images to create juxtaposition.

In Lightroom all while holding shift, I used the letter X to discard an image and the letter P to flag it- this created my first selection (as you can see above- my flagged images).

After the previous steps, I went through the flagged photographs, rating them from 1-5 stars one by one. Some were very similar so I compared them and got rid of most.

As the final step, I chose my favourite images of all and using Lightroom I made adjustments- surprisingly after editing them, some of the images rated two or three turned out better than some of the ones rated four or five.

We went to the Jersey Archive, and I’m going to use Lightroom to edit all my images and select the ones I want as well as rate them to be able to find my best images for my sequences collection.

here is a map showing where we walked around to take these images, mostly the French and Portuguese quarters as well as some rich resident areas

here is the process;

these were all my images i imported..

In order to pick the images that turned out the best and not have any repeating images, I used the tool of pressing either P or X, this would help me select the images I actually wanted to work with, here are the images that I all pressed P on;

as you can see , this helped me narrow down my choices and work with a less amount of photos however with the ones I really liked and wanted to continue editing.

I rated all my images either 2 or 3 stars, 2 being I may need to re think them and 3 being I want to continue editing them now, I then switched the filter onto images rated 3 stars or higher and these were the final images I ended up with, now ready to edit them.

The images that I rated 3 stars stayed in my library and I then decided to develop them and edit them. I did two versions of editing, I kept them in colour and developed them and after that I changed them all to black&white to see what version I like more-

Here are my final developed images;

in colour;

in black and white;

these are my final images that I have developed and edited. I edited my set of images in colour using different contrast and exposure options to make sure they were edited in the way I was happy with how they look and I tried to keep the same style throughout all my images to not have any images that dont fit in or stand out too much.

Once I was happy with editing my coloured version set of images I also wanted to turn them all black and white and develop them further on. I did this to see whether I prefer the coloured or black and white set of images.

I do like how vibrant my coloured set of images are and turned out however I think when it comes to sequencing my images and putting them into a small book I will use the black and white set of images as it does match the photographers I’ve been looking at more as nearly all the old images of Jersey are in black and white to and I think I matched the tones between all the images well.

We went on a trip down to the Jersey Museum to start our year 13 project on Identity and Community. We visited the ‘People make jersey – our stories of immigration’ exhibition to learn more about our communities immigration stories. Lucy Layton put together the exhibition in order to show that every Islander had their own ‘Jersey story’ to tell and the variety of people who make up Jersey’s community. The exhibition starts with Jersey’s first permanent settlers, who arrived around 7,000 years ago and where originally driven by a changing climate to seek a new place where they could plant their crops and raise their families. It then follows the waves of immigrants who have arrived in Jersey over the centuries.

In the exhibition their was a glass table which had displayed many different types of passport cards and there was the Aliens registration cards, which showed lots of French people living in Jersey in 1920.

They also had a wall with many Jersey surnames and describing the history and origins of these names.

In the exhibition they created a wall which shows the current generations holding their older generations registration cards and next to them was a little bit about their family history.

Around the museum they had placed objects belonging to immigrants and people who were sharing their stories. They had many different objects like an old potato grater used to make polish dishes, a Portuguese passport , a old Spanish doll and a old kettle.