Photoshoot 1	For my first photoshoot, I went down to the waterfront and onto the beach (St Aubin’s) along the avenue. I decided to go around 6-6:30 so that I could take photos of the sunset.
Photoshoot 2	For my second photoshoot, I went to a reservoir in St Saviour, I decided to go around 4-5 in the afternoon. On this day the sky was more grey and very cloudy.
Photoshoot 3	For my third photoshoot, I went for a walk on some of the back roads around Jersey, I decided to go around 5:30 in the evening so that I could try and photograph golden hour.

Contact Sheets

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In my contact sheets, there are lots of repeated photos as I had to keep adjusting the ISO, shutter speed and F-number to try and get the right exposure for the type of lighting, I had gone on a grey, cloudy day so the sky kept coming out to bright in the camera.

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In these photos, I also had to make repeats as I had gone while the sun was setting so there was a glare in some of the photos due to the high exposure, but as I was walking the lighting would change due to the sun being blocked or because of me being in a more shaded place which also contributed to the number of similar photos.

Editing

These are two edits from each of my three photoshoots. In all my photos I have chosen to make the colours more vibrant and stand out which contrasts with the somewhat dull photos that they were before.

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These are two of the photos that I have edited from St Aubin’s beach, in both I have increased the vibrancy so that the colours in the sky, such as the blues and oranges stand out more against the darker parts of the photo like the sand and ocean. In the photo on the left, I have only increased the contrast to make the photo darker so that you can still see the person walking forward. For the photo on the right, I have decreased the contrast so that the photo isn’t as dark as the photo to the left, I have also the texture and clarity so that the ripples in the sand can be seen more clearly and stand out with the reflection of the sunset.

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These are two of the photos that I have edited from some of the backroads around the parish of St Saviour, in the photo on the left I have increased the contrast to darken the bushes to the side of the photo and the hills in the background. As the sky was quite bright and grey the clouds couldn’t be clearly seen in the photo, so I slightly decreased the exposure which helped the clouds become more defined in the sky which now has more of a blue tint. I did similar editing to the photo on the right, I liked the look of the darker greens against the grey of the road, but I still wanted them to be vibrant and pop so I also increased the vibrancy so that I could get this effect.

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These are also photos taken on backroads around St Saviours but I went at a different time so that I could capture the sunset and hopefully get different lighting than my other photos. In these two photos, I wanted the clouds to be defined so that you could see the key poking through at different places. I did this by decreasing both the contrast and exposure, by doing this I made the clouds darker which made them stand out against the blue of the sky. In the photo on the right and wanted the photo to have a more saturated and golden look as the sun was at the perfect place for the ‘golden hour’. I decreased the exposure and highlights as well as increased the contrast to make the image darker and give it the golden look that I wanted.

Final Photos

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I have chosen these as my final images because I believe that each one shows different parts of Jersey’s beautiful landscapes. One of my favourites is the bottom right as I think that the sun is giving a really nice golden look on the few parts that it is hitting the plastic. I also think that the clouds are nicely formed in the sky and are highly defined. I really like how the lighter sky in the mid-ground contrasts with the darker trees towards the ground and the darker elements of the field. Another one of my favourites in the middle right photo as I think the defined grey clouds sit nicely against the bits o bright blue from the sky poking through. The sun also has a similar effect to the photo just beneath it, with some of the rays being able to be seen in the photo which adds another element to the photos that viewers might find interesting. I also really like the saturation of this photo which just gives it a more brighter effect. Finally, the bottom left is also a good final image as I really like the contrast between the darker tones from the trees and grass and the brighter sky and highlights on the lake. I feel that this phot covers the whole of Ansel Adams Zone system as you can see the darkest shades are in the lake or on parts of the ducks in the bottom of the photo and the lighter parts are either the sky as it was a grey and cloudy day so the sky is brighter or in the different highlights on the lake.

Over half term I went on two photoshoots, one in St. Ouen’s and the other by St. Catherine’s woods. The weather those days was rather poor, filling the sky with a lot of fog, which I feel adds atmosphere. I edited them pretty experimentally, switching between wanted to add brighter, more saturated colours, and wanting to keep them in black and white to preserve the mysterious tone.

I went through all of my pictures using the P and X tools to decide which I wanted to use. I then edited them, adjusting the colours, contrasts and exposure. I colour coded my images based on how much I liked them, yellow for liking them and green for images I definitely want to use.

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My images from my rural landscape photoshoot

Best images

what is rural landscape photography?

Rural landscape photography is in many ways similar to photographing urban landscapes. The difference is rural photography is about capturing the “life” in the countryside or in areas that are not built up. Rural can be seen as something old, natural and slowly changing, while urban is mostly modern, man made and fast changing. rural landscape photography is used to capture beauty in the natural landscape, without being changed by human existence. For example places like sand dunes, beaches, woods, fields and the countryside are rural and mostly unchanged. However these places will change slowly overtime due to other natural occurrences like extreme weather, heat and rain. rural photography is a popular form of photography due to settings that are bursting with life, natural features and an explosion of vibrant colour, whereas urban photography is often more dull and full of grey colours.

Fay Godwin

Fay Godwin first became interested in photography in the mid-1960s as a result of taking pictures of her young children. Alongside early portrait work, she developed a sophisticated landscape practice, often collaborating closely with writers to produce in depth surveys of particular rural topics or regions. Her photography has sometimes been linked to a tradition of romantic representations of the British landscape, in the manner of Bill Brandt or Edwin Smith. But, as a socialist and active environmentalist, Godwin makes the land in her photographs reveal traces of its history, through mankind’s occupation and and intervention.

Fay’s life

in the 1990s she was offered a Fellowship at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television (now the National Media Museum) in Bradford, which pushed her work in the direction of colour and urban documentary. She also began taking close-ups of natural forms. A major exhibition of that work was toured by Warwick Arts Centre from 1995 to 1997; Godwin self-published a small book of that work in 1999, called Glassworks & Secret Lives, which was distributed from a small local bookshop in her adopted hometown of Hastings in East Sussex.

Godwin was introduced to the London literary scene. She produced portraits of dozens of well-known writers, photographing almost every significant literary figure in 1970s and 1980s England, as well as numerous visiting foreign authors. Her subjects, typically photographed in the sitters’ own homes, included Kingsley Amis.

The first edition of Remains of Elmet: A Pennine Sequence, her book collaboration with poet Ted Hughes, was published by Rainbow Press in 1979. The book was also published in popular form by Faber and Faber (with poor reproduction of the images), and then re-published by them in 1994 simply as Elmet with a third of the book being new additional poems and photographs.

Fay’s work

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Through my 2 photoshoots which I did out of school, I gathered these 15 images as my best shots of a romanticised rural landscapes. I chose them by going through each album which I made and picking them with “Z” then added them all to a separate album where I had them all together as it will be easier for me to organise and edit on Adobe Lightroom to fix the lighting/experiment with the filters/etc. I will be choosing 4 of these pictures to do an edit of in depth where I experiment with different filters, relating to my chosen photographers work.

My first photoshoot I focussed on going on a walk, where I took pictures which showed a progression but the photos came out more industrial than I wanted as there were many buildings included in them. I really liked the way the clouds add extra detail to my photos from this photoshoot as it was a nice day as it completely changes the atmosphere of the photos.

For my second photoshoot I focussed on going through another walk through a natural landscape in Jersey which is quite hidden and natural due to the wildlife throughout it, due to the weather the clouds made the background quite bright and overexposed in some pictures, which I will be editing in Adobe Lightroom but I think that it will help to develop my photos to be similar to Ansel Adams. I really liked doing this photoshoot as I got a variety of photos from flowers, trees, bridges, etc.

Here is my plan of ideas which I will follow as a guideline to help me with my photoshoot of rural/natural landscapes.

Ansel Easton Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West.

He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating “pure” photography which favoured sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph. Adams was an advocate of environmental protection, national parks and creating an enduring legacy of responses to the power of nature and sublime condition.

He created a Zonal System to ensure that all tonal values created by highlights, low-lights and mid-tones are represented in the images.

The Zone System is a photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development. It provides photographers with a systematic method of precisely defining the relationship between the way they visualize the photographic subject and the final results. Although it originated with black-and-white sheet film, the Zone System is also applicable to roll film, both black-and-white and colour, negative and reversal and to digital photography.

Ansel Adams was also very concerned with the tonal range of an image, the 11 zones in Ansel Adams’ system were defined to represent the gradation of all the different tonal values you would see in a black and white print, with zone 5 being middle grey, zone 0 being pure black (with no detail), and zone 10 being pure white (with no detail).

ANALYSIS OF ANSEL ADAMS’ WORK

Moon and Half Dome by Ansel Adams is a prime example of his work, the heavy contrast between tonal values (ranging from the pure white of the snow and moon to the pitch black of the shadows on the mountain). The texture of the mountain is very visible, adding more depth to the images, strong shadows which are in the foreground frame the centrepiece of the moon and cliff- leading to a very atmospheric, dramatic image which successfully exudes strong emotions (linking to romanticism) and a steady, clear aesthetic.

For my second photoshoot I started at Waitrose and made my way into the valley behind it until I got close to B&Q which is where I stopped. I focused on taking rural landscape images of my surroundings and switched between the monochrome and colour setting to get different types of images. I also wanted to see what they would look like if I edited them in black and white. I mostly took photographs of the trees and paths because they are what interested me the most.

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