In preparation to start taking images that will show demonstrate romanticism, I have come up with some ideas of where photoshoots could take place as there in Jersey we have a variety of natural landscapes to go to to take good photos.

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Potential Locations

• St Ouens Beach
• L’Etacq
• St Catherine’s Woods
• Fields/ Farms
• Cliff paths
• Sand Dunes
• Reservoirs in St Saviours
• Green Island

Contact Sheets and Photoshoot Plans

Photoshoots 1 and 2, shown below, were located at St Aubin’s beach and a reservoir in St Saviours, this was in an attempt to generate as many images as possible and get a variety of different images, this allowed me to also get more practise with the camera settings and this meant by my final photoshoot my images were of better quality as I now know how settings such as the ISO and shutter speed work. Also, I took them at different times of the day, one during sunset and one in the afternoon, but the lighting just ended up looking more dull in the reservoir photoshoot.

Photoshoot 3 shown below was located at the La Mar beach in St Clement, I took all of these photos were taken around 5pm, the aim was too have minimal lighting so that my images were turned from colour to monochromatic, the contrast in colours would be greater, also this was good practise when changing the camera settings to adapt to the changing lighting as the sun started to set.

Photoshoot 4 was taken around Le Quesnes garden centre in St Saviour, with the roads full of grass and natural features, and the clouds being defined in the sky, I thought this was the perfect time to take more images for this project. Below I have placed a contact sheet containing some images from this photoshoot.

Image Selection and Editing

Below I have created a collection showing the majority of my useable images from some of the photoshoots. I have also included examples of me editing some of my potential final images, as I have tried to romanticise some of my images my making them monochromatic. Some of these images were not really edited a lot but were just altered to make them better quality and we images were the editing is drastic I have included the Lightroom settings on the right hand side. I liked editing some of these images in this monochromatic way as it it relates it to our projects theme of romanticism.

I have edited my images in such ways for multiple reasons, first being that the exposure on the original images was far too low and this needed editing to be fixed in Lightroom. Additionally, I think that the saturation of some of the colours of these images needed altered as it makes the images more interesting and gives them more depth, along with changing the clarity. I think that making these images monochromatic links to the theme of romanticism and shows the natural landscapes from a different view. I have showed these screenshots in Lightroom so that we can clearly see the difference between the images after being edited, this means that we can see the clear difference.