Photoshoots

My photoshoots will be very similar to each-other. I will compose a different car in the varied locations around Jersey. These locations will mostly include my own car in numerous spots along the north coast, five mile road, St Brelade’s bay and the avenue. I can also photograph Mx-5s that I see outside of people’s houses whilst driving to a new spot. I will aim to represent each of my artist references in all photoshoots. This will vary from the landscape photography of Skodvin, to the moody and mysterious night-time style of Chang.

Image selection

I will adopt the same image selection process that I used for my previous project. This will be conducted by rating my images in Adobe Lightroom by colour (green/yellow/red) and by stars (1-5). This will provide me with an easy-to-use visual representation of which images I feel that I can use and which ones I would prefer to leave out. I can easily filter through my images once this process is complete. After this I can begin my editing process with the images that I have selected.

Editing Processes

For this style of photography, editing my images in Photoshop will prove much more effective than Lightroom. I have learned my way around Lightroom’s features well enough to try something new, and am willing to learn how the varying tools in Photoshop can be used to enhance my outcomes further. For this, I plan to patch up my images on a microscopic level. This will include removing people in the distant background, or removing small stones and gum from the road to give a sense of tidiness. To do this, my primary tool selection will consist of the clone stamp tool, the smudge tool and the spot healing brush tool. These tools have a similar effect, but each has a better look when used in different scenarios. This will hopefully smoothen up the rough areas of my images and have a positive effect overall.

Post-editing and Printing

After this excruciating editing process, I plan to have my photos printed by a professional company. This is because of how I wish to display them as final outcomes. I am going to produce a 3×3 window mount of A5 images on an A1 piece of black mountboard, as well as two large A3 prints mounted on A2 pieces of Previously being a DT student, I understand the importance of measure twice, cut once. So far, my window mounts from past projects have received praise not only from other students, but also teachers outside the subject.