The plan for this photoshoot is here: LINK
This was the last woodland shoot I took, unfortunately a lot of the images came out blurry despite me making sure the camera focus was correct. I was still able to create some images that I think are strong, and the different location I used for the shoot gave me aesthetically different images than the previous images.
Contact Sheets
Editing
To start my image selection, as usual I used the ‘pick’ and ‘reject’ tool to select the stronger images from the shoot:
I then use the star rating tool to grade the images on their quality, with 5 stars being the strongest:
I then gave each image a colour, with green being the images I will absolutely use in my final piece, and yellow being the images I may use for my final piece.
Best Images from this Shoot
Edited versions:
Black and white versions:
Comparison to Lebas’ work
A glaring difference between Lebas’ image and my own is Lebas’ use of colour; her images are far more vibrant and contrasting than my own, which have a darker and gloomier aesthetic. A lot of images from this shoot use a scene with an open sky over a wider landscape, which differ to Lebas’ more enclosed landscapes where the sky and landscape is obscured by the dense trees. Another big difference between mine and Lebas’ images is that she uses a very wide lens to capture a large amount of the scene, while I used a standard sized lens. This shoot in particular focussed on the sublime aspect of my plan, meaning the dangerous aesthetic, which I took Lebas’ images as inspiration for, is slightly lost in this shoot. There is likely a difference between the times of the day these images were taken, mine being slightly earlier in the day than Lebas’ images, as well as the kind of weather; I suspect that Lebas took these images during more overcast weather.
Evaluation
While this shoot was fairly unsuccessful in terms of the quality of the images due to a lot of them being blurry, however I was able to gather some images that I thought could be used for the final piece. The final images from this shoot look different to the previous woodland images as a result of the different location as well as the way I framed the images, this will give my final pieces more diversity in terms of aesthetics.
What went well:
Some of the images have a colour to them that invokes a feeling of my interpretation of the sublime, which was captured especially in the sky due to how I took the images during the golden hour. I think these images are very different to others within the woodland theme, which means they could be a good addition to my photobook.
How I can improve:
Some of the images are fairly dark and muddy (as a result of poor quality lighting from some positions as well as the blur on some of the images) leaving them in a poor quality.