The photos I have highlighted green are the images I have chosen to edit, because they represent Romanticism and the sublime the best, by using different elements of nature. They also have the best lighting and are the most dramatic images. The images highlighted in other colours are the images I have chosen to use for my HDR.

I edited these images in the same way, by increasing the exposure, contrast, shadows, whites, vibrancy and saturation, while decreasing the highlights and the blacks. I did this, so the images would have better lighting, because they originally had poor lighting. This also made the image brighter and the colours brighter.

I took this image at Harve De Pas at around 4pm on the beach. The photo is off into the distance and captures the rocks, sand, sea and the green mountain/fields in the distance. This image shows how a large amount of land is all still nature and has not been urbanised yet.

This is how the final edited images came out. They show the nature closer up and far in the distance. This portrays the beauty of nature well and relates to Romanticism, because it is beautiful, admired and has been kept and not urbanised yet, which was Romanticists goals. This also relates to Ansel Adams work.

I edited this image by increasing the contrast, whites, shadows, vibrancy and saturation, while decreasing the exposure, blacks and highlights, so that the image would be brighter and the colours more vibrant.

This image was also taken at Harve De Pas beach and shows the nature up close and in the distance. It also relates to Romanticism, because it shows the beauty and peacefulness of the nature and the sea. However, it also links to the Sublime, because I had people in the photo, so that the comparison between the size of humans and the sea and rocks around could be seen. This highlights how big the sea is compared to humans, who are much smaller. The clouds also look ‘heavenly’ in this photo, so that symbolises the religious parts of Romanticism and how they believed nature was religious and sacred. This also relates to Ansel Adams work.

The final edited image came out like this, of the sea, clouds, sand and rocks.

I edited this image by increasing the contrast, whites, shadows and vibrancy, while decreasing the exposure, blacks and highlights, so that this image would be brighter and the green of the leaves would ‘pop’ more.

This image was taken in St Brelade near Corbiere in a little forest walk way.

I chose to have a person in this image, so that it would relate to the Sublime. The over grown bushes and trees are much larger and more powerful than the small human in the photo, which relates to the Sublime and how nature is strong and powerful and humans are nothing compared. This also relates to Ansel Adams work.

The final edited image came out like this.

I edited this picture by increasing the contrast, exposure, whites, shadows, vibrancy and saturation, while decreasing the highlights and the blacks, so that this photo would have ,more of a contrast and more of a tonal range as the trees create shade closer up and there is a break in the trees further down, where there is sun light.

This image was taken in St. Catherine’s woods down near the lake.

This is the final edited image.

This image relates to the Sublime, because it presents how big the trees are, and how they tower over the much smaller people in this photo. It also supports romanticism, because the nature is beautiful, and the people are there to be in awe of it. The sun light coming through the break in the trees in the distance of the photo also looks ‘heavenly,’ which is important to Romanticism, because Romanticists believed that nature was sacred, because it was put it from God. This also relates to Ansel Adams work.

I edited this image by increasing the contrast, shadows, whites and vibrancy, while decreasing the blacks and highlights, so that the clouds looked more grey and storm like, and the create contrast in the shades in the grass.

This image was taken at the sand dunes in St ounes.

This photo represents the sublime, because it shows how tiny a human is compared to a vast land of nature. It also shows how there is a storm brewing and how the clouds look ‘angry’ in a way. This supports the Sublime, because the Sublime supports nature as being stronger, bigger and more powerful than humans. This also relates to Ansel Adams work.

I edited these three images by increasing the exposure, contrast, shadows, whites, vibrancy and saturation, while decreasing the blacks and highlights, so that the images would have better lighting, because the original images had poor lighting as they were taken in the dark using the flash.

These images were taken in St Andrews park in St Lawrence.

These are the final edited images.

These images relate to Romanticism, because they present lots of different elements of nature, such as trees and flowers. They present the beauty of them all and the vastness of the nature, as there is nature all through into the distance, with no urbanisation, as it is still a grass field. This also relates to Ansel Adams work.

HDR Merge

Next, I wanted to make a HDR, but I had no photos with bracketed exposure. However, I did take some images at school with bracketed exposure with Mr Toft, but they were lost. Instead, I decided to use these images to make a HDR:

I used Lightroom to create my HDR, but I also did attempt with photoshop, but ultimately decided I prefer using Lightroom.

I chose three images from above with different exposures to create my HDR. Then, I merged them together and chose the type of exposure I wanted.

Here is the HDR in Lightroom with the overlay, while I decided my exposure.

Here is my final HDR image, after using Lightroom to create it.

Then, I experimented with other photos I had taken using exposure bracketing.

These are the images I used to create this HDR: