For this photoshoot I walked through the lanes near my home which have a large amount of unique plants and landscapes, which I thought would be a great way to start photographing for this project. I aimed to take pictures with an abstract approach similar to Henry Fair’s own work. During the photoshoot I managed to take many pictures of different plant life such as flowers, trees and leaves.

Photoshoot Plan

What?	I will take pictures of the plants and aim for an abstract approach
Where?	Near/In St. Peter’s Valley
When?	Mid-late day as the trees in the valley obscure light, so I will need as much light as possible
Why?	I think the large variety/amount of plant life in this area will give me a good set of different images
How?	I will walk around the valley and look for interesting scenes

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Contact Sheet

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Editing Process

For my first round of editing, I went through my images and selected the good images from the photoshoot using the ‘Pick’ and ‘Reject’ tools on Lightroom. This leaves only the images that I think I could use for a final piece.

Next, I used the star rating tool to distinguish which images I think are strong and which are weak by rating them out of 5.

I also used the colour rating tool to assign a colour to each image, which will help to further narrow my image selection, while also making it easier for me to see which images I am/ am not using (With red being the weaker images and green being the stronger ones).

Eventually, I condensed this photoshoot into what I think are the strongest 5 images, which I will be manipulating and likely using for my Final Piece for this project.

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Final Images

Here are my final images for this photoshoot, I have adjusted them slightly on Lightroom.

I have also made black and white versions of each final image to see what they would look like without colour.

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Image Analysis

I chose this as a Final Image because I think the way the camera seems to look beyond the leaves (seen in the foreground) into a group of other leaves and stalks gives it an abstract feel. I think the viewpoint (slightly downwards facing) also helps give the image an abstract look, as it looks downwards into the shaded ground, while also showing more of the stalks and leaves in the background. I like the way the stalks and leaves in the image are separated: the obvious colour difference, which uses complimentary colours giving the image an unnatural, yet natural look, but also the difference in shape and line, with the stalks naturally having a more rigid, straight-edged form. The patterns seen on the leaves gives the image even more lines to make it more abstract. When editing this image, I made it ever-so-slightly more cold, which gives the leaves a more vibrant greenish-blue tone, which creates a greater contrast between the red stalks and the green leaves.

Comparison to Artist

While my images are not a completely direct response to Henry Fair’s images, I took inspiration from his use of shapes and colour specifically for this photoshoot.

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Photoshoot Evaluation

Overall, I am very happy with how this photoshoot turned out, I think each final image is interesting and unique from each other, and fits with the project nicely. I enjoyed taking the images and I feel like I have learnt more ways on how to photograph the environment in an interesting way, as well as how to take abstract images in particular more effectively and uniquely. If I was to do this same photoshoot again later, I would maybe change the weather I go out in, to maybe change the subject matter slightly (with the inclusion of raindrops for example), or perhaps go out at a later/earlier time of the day to give the images a more interesting natural light source