For my third photoshoot, I planned to take a variety of photographs that contained bunkers and war related aspects of Jersey. I thought it would be a clever idea to showcase the monuments and buildings that were created by the Germans when Jersey was a German occupant island as it links straight into my other photoshoot themes of WWII and Germany being the main vocal point behind all photoshoots.
Contact sheets:
Colour coded and star rated:
When organising my flagged images, I went down the route of colour coding the images into the categories of green, yellow and red. Green meaning that I like these images and would like to use them as my best images to edit, yellow being that these images are a possible to be used as a final image and finally red being that I’m not going to end up using them. Carrying out this process made it easier for me to figure out which images I would like to continue developing for my final images. I thought the images that I decided to chose as my best, were able to display a good sense of photographers I have done in depth analyses of such as Michael Schmidt as they represent areas involving the war and still showcase a good model of what the photographer produces.
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Successful photos
Here I have a range of images that I deem to be my most successful photographs as I believed that they were able to represent both my area of study and the topic chosen for the exam itself.
Evaluation of my most successful photographs:
The photos above I really liked the look of for my project. Photograph 1 was chosen as I really enjoyed the perspective I presented as it is within a gun turret. Instead of just taking photos of bunkers from the outside, I decided to capture the inside of what it actually looked like when the German occupants were occupying them and using them during the war. Photograph 2 was also chosen as I feel it captures the true structure of what the exterior looked like for a proper German bunker, the patterns and detail that was added to it showcases that they have aged quite a bit throughout the years.
Unsuccessful photos
Unsuccessful photo evaluation:
I have chosen these two images as examples of my least successful photographs as I don’t feel they really represent the extent of what the bunkers are like in Jersey. Image 1 showcases the ropes that are wrapped over a stone structure which was very widely used when making bunkers during the war. Although this image represents what German occupants would use during the war, it still doesn’t really represent much of the bigger picture behind what was built by Germans. Image 2 is also similar in this sense as it’s a close up of a bunker so it doesn’t show the full scale of what they’ve made.
Best images before editing:
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Final outcomes, Analysis and Critique
With my images, I was very happy with how they turned out as I believe they were able to fit the brief of what I was going for. I wanted to feature bunkers and aspects of the aftermath of war within Jersey as it is the place I grew up in. I have a bunker within my garden so this section really means a lot to me personally.
Here above I have one of the images I have taken. I really like this image and the range that I ended up taking for my project, however something I would have done differently is explore more bunkers around Jersey and take more photographs, especially the one in my garden. Although the one in my garden is quite boring and I didn’t photograph it, I still thought it was a missed opportunity as to the main link between why this is important to me.
