To further develop our project: My Rock, we visited Le Hocq and walked down the beach towards Green Island, where we took photos of both the smaller objects and the wider landscape that surrounds those areas.
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Below are the images I took on my phone as my camera ran out of storage
Editing Process
To start my editing process, I uploaded my images into Lightroom and went through the images using the ‘Pick’ and ‘Reject’ function to narrow my selection down.
Next I went through my selected images again and used the star rating function to select what I considered to be the best images out of my original selection.
These are the images from my phone.
Final Images
These are the images I considered to be the strongest from this shoot after finishing the selection process.
For this photoshoot in particular, I wanted to put a focus on making the images more lively and vibrant, to do this I simply upped the ‘vibrancy’ and ‘contrast’ to varying amounts on each photograph to make it stand out.
Here I made black and white versions of each image. While that does go against the colourful aesthetic I was going for for this photoshoot, I still think the lines, shapes and tones on these images make for interesting compositions when black and white.
Evaluation
I found this photoshoot to be very enjoyable to do (taking the photos and visiting the Société Jersiaise) and edit, and I am happy with the images I came out with. I was able to get close-up images, as well as more traditional landscapes, which gave me a wide selection to pick from for the final images. My Final Images mainly consist of close-ups with interesting lines and shapes, the subject matter consists primarily of rocks and seaweed, which will hopefully give my zine a consistent theme. The Final Images I got from the landscape images all depict some form of rock with a dramatic sky, which offers a nice contrast to the other close-up images.
What didn’t go so well was that my camera ran out of memory (because I forgot to clear it beforehand) and so I had to use my phone’s camera. While the images from that were still good, it caused some delay with the creation of this blog post. I will make sure that I am properly prepared for the next photoshoot.