Contact Sheet
This is my contact sheet from my first landscape photoshoot where I went to one of the forest near Noirmont point around the coast where they had lots of damages due to storm Ciaran. I took some inspiration from Ansel Adams with the editing style.
editing process
For this photoshoot I took my originally photos and in Photoshop I went into the black and white section and then I was able to change the specific colours in them. So I could adjust the different colours in my photos and make some appear quite dark and then could make others in my image appear very bright and white.
while editing I tried to focus on the zone system that Ansel Adams would use for his images. The zone system is basically different shades of black 0 being the darkest, with that shade you don’t end up seeing any texture and it kind of ends up as negative space. Then you have 10 being the lightest its often the light source or sometimes the reflection in the image. What made most of his images so great was that he would every “zone” in his photos. It creates these dramatic and intense contrasts which work really well.
Final Edits
I think these photos turned out really good I added lots of the dramatic editing which Ansel Adams liked to use in his photos. I believe it worked really well with the photos because they were all of these really dramatic damage which works well with the theme of the sublime. It kind of appears very overwhelming and almost scary due to the sheer size .However if you think about the actual act of for these trees falling over and destruction it has caused on the environment around it can be kind of daunting.
I think my favourite photo would be the one underneath of the root of a fallen tree. Due to the editing style I used you can see so much detail like the strands from the roots where its just been harshly ripped out of the ground.
