SHOOT ONE:

I decided to shoot fishing waste on St Brelade bay to show the impact the fishing industry has on the environment. 20% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is offshore debris oil rigs, pacific cargo ships, and boaters dumping trash into the water. 705,000 tons of this is fishing nets, making up the majority of the waste. I wanted to focus on the pollution in the Jersey waters and on beaches for this shoot.

Contact Sheet

Selecting: I imported the image into LrC and flagged the photos I wanted to edit.

Editing

Final Images

Although this shoot doesn’t connect to Mandy Barker’s images, I think the message behind them is the same. However in my next shoot, I collected plastic and fishing waste on the beach and shot it in the studio to replicate her work.

SHOOT TWO:

Contact Sheet

Selecting

Editing

PHOTOSHOP – I used the Rectangular Marquee Tool to select areas where there was a lot of sand, then deleted them because I found the sand made the images look dirty and it distracted from the main focus. I also went over the white areas with the paint brush in white, with a low opacity (e.g. 20%/30%) to lighten up the areas and shadows.

FINAL IMAGES: BASIC EDITS