SELECTING MY BEST IMAGES:

In this screenshot I was selecting my images. The photos I have highlighted in green are my best takes of beach and rocks landscapes which I could possibly use for my final outcome. The photos highlighted in red are my worst photos that are not as high quality or not the right idea I had it mind, these are the ones I know I will not be using throughout my landscape project. During my editing I will change my images to black and white to create a more dramatic image, my editing will be inspired my Ansel Adams black and white photographs.

Romanticism is the ideals and feelings which are romantic over than realistic. Romantics believed in the natural goodness in humans. It involved breaking with the past, and consciously moving away from the ideas and traditions of the Enlightenment.

The Sublime

The theory of sublime art was put forward by Edmund Burke in A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful published in 1757. The term especially refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement, or imitation.

In aesthetics, the sublime is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual, or artistic.

Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke was an Irish-British statesman, economist, and philosopher. Born in Dublin, Burke served as a member of Parliament between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons of Great Britain with the Whig Party.

Burke argued against the idea of abstract, metaphysical rights of humans and instead advocated national.

Contact Sheet

This is the contact sheet I created for this photoshoot in Lightroom Classic. I used colours as a filtering system; red for photos I won’t use/ won’t edit, yellow for photos I might come back to and edit and blue for photos I will definitely edit or have already edited. I also removed some photos from the contact sheet which I didn’t think would be any use at all.

Ansel Easton Adams was an American landscape photographer and eco-activist known for his monochrome images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of

photographers advocating “pure” photography which favoured sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph.

One of the most crucial legacies of Adams is the way in that his photographs contributed to the American preservation movement. His technical knowledge and the undeniable beauty  of welcome work paved the habit for photography to be shown beside traditional portrait and portraiture in national  galleries.

Adams’s first photographs were published in 1921, and Best’s Studio began selling his Yosemite prints the next year. In 1927, Adams began working with Albert M. Bender, a San Francisco insurance magnate and arts patron. Between 1929 and 1942, Adams’s work matured, and he became more established. The 1930s were a particularly experimental and productive time for him.

To edit my images I used lighten room to lower exposure too add a moody effect of my images which gives a simple but effective feel to my work.

I also used Lightroom to edit different colours of my piece to make its more aesthetically pleasing.

what: I am taking photos of natural areas of the island like forests, beaches, fields and cliffs.

where: anywhere where their is natural beauty such as beaches, forests, fields, sand dunes, etc. the places where I will be taking pictures of will be places of interest where its know for its beauty.

when: I plan on going on the weekend or after school these seem like the best time to do the work and if its to dark after school I can always do it on the weekend.

how: I will go around the island looking around for unique sites and take photos of them. I will also take into consideration lighting and the time of day to get the best photo possible also my camera settings will be adjusted depending on the situation.

why: to learn new skills and different methods of photography and to take photos and see how they turn out.

Exposure bracketing is a technique used in low light conditions which allows a photographer to ensure that they will definitely capture every aspect of the image without under or overexposing it.

This is done by taking more than one image (typically three), with one being overexposed, one correctly exposed and the other being underexposed. This allows all light levels that are detectable by the human eye to be shown in the image when all the exposures are blended together.

This can be done automatically in the camera’s settings or manually with control of the shutter speed, moving it up or down in increments.

Here are some examples taken with the manual method in school.

And here are some taken with the automatic method, which only takes three exposures in one go.

to start i used a light backboard with a blue overlay to add pop to the background and place dark scissors over the top to give a nice and prominent contrast.

I also tried to take photos of a bible and different rolls of tape which did not work out so well as i did not realise the camera was out of focus.