For my first photoshoot I have taken a variety of shots at Val De La Mare, a reservoir. Specifically I looked at the dam, a huge manmade structure constructed to hold all the water the reservoir collects. I wanted to use this location as it is a great way of showing people how agriculture has impacted the land. Before the dam was built it would have been untouched land but as the population increased the need for water did so the dam was built to hold 938 megalitres of water. This is a huge volume of water with 1 megalitre being 10,000 litres and the dam itself is equally as impressive and vast, almost incomprehensible as you get closer to it.

Contact Sheet

For this shoot I took a variety of shots from different angles and building different compositions. I used red for photos I didn’t think were suitable for the editing style I will use, green for the photos I do like and yellow for photos I can use if they would be suitable more so than the ones already highlighted in green.

Best Shots Before Editing

I picked these as my best shots due to the composition I have used a wide angle lens at roughly 15mm to take these shots so it has been really effective in expressing the vastness of the dam and the impact it has on the overall land around it.

Editing

I will now go onto edit a mixture of these shots and my other photoshoots. I will go onto make a series of photos I edit, for my first editing experiments I will look into how to highlight the unnatural parts in the natural world.