Contact Sheets

For this photo-shoot we went around the outside of school and Highlands as a class and looked for urban landscapes that could potentially work as a New Topographic image, such as mundane buildings that might intersect with any remaining nature surrounding it. Here I have highlighted the photographs I will edit in green, and crossed out the images that are either too blurry or overexposed to use, in red.

Edited Images

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To edit these photographs, I used Lightroom to convert the images into black and white. Then I lowered the exposure and increased the contrast to create a larger juxtaposition between light and dark. I also lowered the highlights and white tones of most of the photographs, making sure the images were not over exposed, due to the large amount of light flooding the lens.

Final Image

I believe that this is my best edited image, taken in the style of the New Topographic movement, as it displays a mundane man made structure from a front facing, pedestrian perspective. Another way this image links to this style of urban landscape photography, is that it is composed of many leading lines that seem to dissect the image.