Shoot 1

For shoot 1, I took 56 still life images and use the pick or reject tool in Lightroom to select my best images, which left me with 19 images to edit with and select my final edits.

Shoot 1 edits

I used the before and after view in Lightroom to show the edits made to my selected 19 images to improve them, the editing I used mostly consisted of changing the tones and presences of the image as well as creating black and white edits of some of my images. Most of the edits created were very subtle just to improve the image slightly as big edits would have ruined the images.

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Shoot 2

For shoot 2, I took 64 still life images and use the pick or reject tool in Lightroom to select my best images, which left me with 17 images to edit with and select my final edits. I was left with only 17 images as a lot of the images came out very blurry and out of focus.

Shoot 2 edits

I used the before and after view in Lightroom to show the edits made to my selected 19 images to improve them, the editing I used mostly consisted of changing the tones and presences of the image as well as creating black and white edits of some of my images. Most of the edits created were very subtle just to improve the image slightly as big edits would have ruined the images.

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Best Edits

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For this photo shoot, I went to the studio and laid out objects in a specific form to try and get the best photos. I took around 50 – 60 images of different layouts of beach like objects such as, rocks, dead bushes, seaweed, and shells. I made a total of 3 different layouts for 3 different types of images I was going to take.

Contact Sheets

I took a total of 51 images throughout my 3 different object setups. Most of the images turned out well, however some were slightly out of focus and had a shutter speed which was too high for some of the photos. After seeing how many images I had I decided to colour coordinate my images to narrow them down into specific colours for each object layout.

After organising my images into specific colour I decided to start to edit some of my images in Adobe Lightroom. I knew which images to edit first because of the P and X tool which helped me pick out the usable images for these edits.

Lightroom Edits

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Lightroom Colour Experiment

For this image, I wanted to try something different and experiment with the colour tools on Lightroom. I started by choosing the image I wanted to edit and chose the one displayed below.

To begin, I first thought that the rocks need to be more centralized so I decided to crop the image down into a smaller portrait photo.

I then did the usual and edited the image using the basic developing tools such as, texture, exposure and contrast until I decided which way it looked the best.

Finally I travelled to the colour tools to experiment with the tools such as, colour grading, tone curve and effects.

Final Edit

For my first photoshoot, we went down to L’Etacq and La Pinacle which is in the top left of Jersey. When we went down the weather was suitable for taking photos as the sky was different in parts, changing from a light blue with clouds to a light grey. This provided me with a good background for my photos as it wouldn’t contrast and overexpose any of my pictures, and making them clear.

On Adobe Lightroom, I went through my photos and selected the photos which I think turned out well and organised them by colours. As seen above, I put the photos that I thought were potential best shots into the yellow colour so that I could go back for further analysis when deciding on my final 4 best shots. Then I coloured the photos which I thought were the strongest in green, and on further analysis the 4 best shots which I decided on can be seen to be marked with 5 stars.

4 best shots from the photoshoot –

Here are my 4 best photos from my first photoshoot of L’Etacq and La Pinacle.

1 and 2)

Why I chose these 2 photos is due to the way the camera has focussed on the rocks in them, because it can be seen to be blurred in the background and in the foreground. In the photos, the camera has focused on the smaller and finer details of the bumps and formations of the rocks and how the shells which are spread across the rock cling to it, which I really like. I also like the slight highlight that is created by the dim sunlight on the rocks, this makes the formations and patterns to become clear which represents their beauty and uniqueness and how 2 rocks are never the same. To further develop these 2 photos I would change this into black and white because I think that it may create quite a sinister look with the way the filter would fall on top of the way the rocks edges and faces have been formed.

3 and 4)

Why I chose these 2 photos as part of my 4 successful best shots is due to the way in the 3rd photo has the darker area which has been created due to the shadows of the rocks and this creates a strong contrast against the highlighted rockface from the sunlight. This is then able to show the finer and smaller details of the rockface, as if you are staring at it with a magnifying glass due to the way the highlights and contrasts work together which create the illusion of if you are zooming in to the photo.
For the 4th photo, I like how the contrast of the straight line of the pole works against the jagged, rough textures of the rockface behind it. These 2 features work well alongside one another to create a separation as if you are looking at 2 photos that have been merged together. I really like this effect because one side of the rockface is lighter than the other side which could be used to represent the two different types of weather and how this can make other features of Jerseys island feel.

Joiners –

From our photoshoot, I was really happy with how these turned out because I made sure to take photos which I could use to create and experiment with different joiners further on in Adobe Photoshop.