we walked from le Hocq along the coats line to green island along this walk I positioned my lens onto the coast line, rocks and out to see. from this trip i took 464 images. after I went through all my images and rated them i ended up with 102 mgood image that i felt was worth editing i then edited them and continued to work my way through refining them down every star level.

the day we went out it was very over cast so I used the graduate filter tool on almost all of them to reduce the exposure in the sky portion of the images, so that the image is not over exposed.

whilst we where walking around i was experimenting with a lot of very low perspectives which made the rest of the landscape seem more impressive.

I found some graffiti on the sea wall at the end of green island.

I created many virtual copy’s of this image and continued to manipulate them to appear in different colours, using the different hues in the image and saturations levels. I then had the idea to juxtapose four of them in different colours.

these show all my best images from this shoot that I have rated to 5 stars.

when I found these stairs going on to the beach I went over because I liked the interesting wear that has been put on these stairs from rocks bashing against them in the waves and the interesting rust colours created by the salt water corroding the metal. I took a few images of these stairs however I liked this image the most because the leading lines of the stairs which lead your eye up and across the image. this image is much more clos up than the other images I took. I then edited it to bring out the shadows to give more depth to the image. I also bring out the highlights on the stones on the floor.

I found a rock pool far down the beach at le Hocq where a very interesting pattern was formed by moving water sand on top of a rock which created this very organic intricate pattern. I positioned my lens straight above it to give a deadpan aesthetic.

I then edited it to bring out the pattern as much as possible by increasing the contrast and vibrance. I decreased the exposure to darken the image because it was a very over cast day that i felt didn’t work with this image.

I took this image from the top of green island I tried to position some of the sea wall on the back side of the island to give contrast to the rest of the very natural environment. I used the graduate filter tool to reduce the exposure of the sky so that there is better balance to the image I also reduced the highlights in the sky to give depth and bring out definition in the clouds.