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My Response – Editing

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For this image, I wanted to utilise the settings to make sure the light trails were sharp and in focus, but this was a challenge as I also wanted to stop the image from having too much noise. Therefore, I increased the Noise Reduction and reduced the Clarity to ensure that there was little to no remaining noise. I also reduced the Highlights as the light was concentrated in the distance and I wanted it to be less bright.
Here I reduced the Highlights (for the same reason as the above image) and turned up the Shadows for the darker parts of the image. I also used the Grain tool to emulate the effect of it being a film photo (something I have done for most of these edits).
For this image, I thought that if I did use black and white settings like the other photos that I would lose the depth in the sky’s colour, so I instead only adapted the image’s Temperature by cooling it, which I think almost gives the same nostalgic effect. I also increased the Grain again.
With this image, I wanted to exploit the urban composition to create a more dark, street style photo and I did this with the use of the Vignette and Clarity tools. Additionally, I added Grain and reduced the Highlights to decrease the concentration of light in the streetlamp.
Here I increased Contrast and Highlights to create a more dramatic juxtaposition between light and shadow. I turned this image black and white but I did actually like the coloured version equally so I made a copy, shown below. I also liked the way the length of the room is demonstrated as the camera leads the eye to the back, so to enhance this further I increased the Vignette.
This image I edited essentially in the same way but by increasing instead of decreasing Saturation.
Here I increased Contrast, Grain and Vignette. I really like the reflection of the building on the car’s roof and also the effect of the wide lens warping the building on the left of the image. I think every aspect of this photo constructs a very strong composition.
I duplicated this image as I liked it both in colour and in black and white. I decreased the Whites as there was quite a lot of sun reflection on the building and I wanted to limit that. In this coloured one I also increased the Saturation a little to make use of the colours in the building.
Here I did the same but in black and white.
This was another image I had to duplicate as I liked both versions. In this one I decreased the Whites as it was again too bright. I also added a Vignette.
Alternatively in this one I chose not to decrease the Whites as I liked the haziness when the image is coloured. I only slightly adjusted the Contrast as I wanted to define the rocks’ texture.
This image already had quite an autumnal tone but I wanted to enhance this effect by increasing the Temperature. I also needed to increase the Shadows because it was originally quite an underexposed photo
In this image, I wanted to accentuate the cracks in the walls of the building and so I increased the Texture as well as the Contrast. I felt that this created quite a moody picture and so I added a Vignette to amplify it.

final images 3

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For the images above and below I tried to capture the ‘urban’ style. I used roads surrounded with buildings making the viewer feel like they are actually there. I then used Lightroom to edit my images enhancing their exposure etc. I like how these image turned out as they almost capture the life of the buildings, they also close in giving the image a path for you to focus on.
For these images I wanted them to feel more industrial. I used the La Collette area and photographed the buildings and tanks etc. I think these images came out very effective as the area is so big it allows for a lot to be in one image. I like how the different parts of the buildings draw the attention of viewers into the centre of the images and have great depth.

Artist Study Rut blees luxemburg

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Rut blees luxemburg is a German born British photographer. Her photography focuses on night photography. I was inspired by the image below so did a shoot to try and replicate the image in my own way.

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photoshoot 3 urban

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what is urban photography/ plan:

Urban photography is where all elements are included such as landscape, architecture as well as photojournalism. It focuses on buildings and the rustic style. For this photoshoot I am going to use La Collette as it is a very industrial area, as well as central town which is full of buildings.

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I selected the image that I wished to use based on their quality and whether they followed the ‘urban’ theme. I then used Lightroom classic to edit my image slightly to improve their exposure and contrast.

Typologies

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The term ‘Typology’ was first used to describe a style of photography when Bernd and Hilla Becher began documenting dilapidated German industrial architecture in 1959. The couple described their subjects as ‘buildings where anonymity is accepted to be the style’.

A photographic typology is a single photograph or more commonly a body of photographic work, that shares a high level of consistency. This consistency is usually found within the subjects, environment, photographic process, and presentation or direction of the subject.

Stoic and detached, each photograph was taken from the same angle, at approximately the same distance from the buildings. Their aim was to capture a record of a landscape they saw changing and disappearing before their eyes so once again, Typologies not only recorded a moment in time, they prompted the viewer to consider the subject’s place in the world.

Areas to take pictures

Front doors on the street where you live

Cracks in the pavement

Fences and walls

The colours of all the cars in the supermarket car park

Telegraph poles viewed from below

TV aerials silhouetted against the sky

The German artists Bernd and Hilla Becher, who began working together in 1959 and married in 1961, are best known for their “typologies”—grids of black-and-white photographs of variant examples of a single type of industrial structure. To create these works, the artists travelled to large mines and steel mills, and systematically photographed the major structures, such as the winding towers that haul coal and iron ore to the surface and the blast furnaces that transform the ore into metal. The rigorous frontality of the individual images gives them the simplicity of diagrams, while their density of detail offers encyclopaedic richness.

Lnadscape photoshoot 4- Response to new topographics

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Contact Sheets

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.