The first photoshoot I carried out was located up at Fort Regent. I took these photos during midday at around 1:30pm hence why most images involve a blue sky and bright sun. I chose to travel to Fort Regent because it contains many simple structures as well as a view of all buildings throughout St Helier. Since this was my first photoshoot for my project, I didn’t collect too many images as I still wasn’t sure if I wanted to follow through with my idea, however after photographing up at Fort Regent I decided I want to carry on with my idea. I gathered a total of 120 photographs spanning from simple close ups of Fort Regent, to distant shots of the buildings of St Helier.

Contact Sheets:

Best unedited images:

My photograph in comparison to Matthieu Venot image:

Here are 11 of my favourite unedited images I took during my first photoshoot in preparation for my exam project. I attempted to follow a similar style to the artist of Matthieu Venot with simple close ups backgrounded by a light blue sky, however the sky wasn’t clear enough to fully execute Matthieu’s style of photos. As you can see in my comparison of my image to my chosen artist, Matthieu image is displayed in a much brighter temperature with vibrant colours. My image compared is not edited so I feel as if I could make my image a lot more similar to Matthieu’s by changing features such as the exposure, temperature, tint and contrast. I want to attempt to create images and edit them to make them much more vibrant and eye catching to help me develop further into my recreation of some of Matthieu Venots images.

For my next photoshoots, I want to follow a similar style of my previous images with a simple close up on a bright sunny day. I am going to go to locations such as, Westmount apartments, Waterfront and also walk around town photographing any interesting and unique structures which I think would suit my idea.

Lightroom edits:

Evaluation

Overall, I believe I could’ve carried out a better photoshoot by making sure of the right camera setting as around 50% of my images came out either too bright or out of focus. However, with the images I did take I think they turned out well and had a good response towards my exam project. For one of my images I wanted to follow the style of Matthieu Venot which I think I did successfully however I didn’t carry on following this style as I think it wouldn’t have looked good for many other of my photos. Also, I think I could’ve taken more images of these buildings so I would have more to work with and edit for my project.