For this photoshoot, I went to St Helier harbour in order to take pictures of the old and new harbour. I captured the harbour from a variety of angles and obtained landscape and portrait images (in order to get variation in my work). Once I had taken all my photographs, I then uploaded them to Lightroom. Here, I narrowed down my images. Initially, I had 494 images. I then used different techniques to narrow down this. Firstly, I gave each image a white flag (if I wanted to use it) or a black flag (if I didn’t want to use it). Next, I gave each of my images with a white flag a rating out of 5 (5 being the best and 1 being the worst). Lastly, I assigned the photos with 3 stars+ a colour (green= going to use and edit. Red= not going to use). This left me with 31 images.

In order to edit these images, I used the different tools on Lightroom. I adjusted the exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, texture and clarity. I decided to create a darker tone/ feel to the images by using a lower exposure etc as I felt it fit with the weather at the time (cloudy).

Overall, I like how this photoshoot came out as I managed to successfully capture the contrast between the new harbour and old harbour, with the new one looking a lot more modern and filled with more futuristic boats. I also like the clarity of all my images and how I captured many boats but also boats by themselves. However, one thing I didn’t like about this photoshoot is that because the sky was cloudy when I was taking pictures, it makes the sky look quite dull and empty and the colour of the images less interesting and vibrant.

Edits:

Next, I decided to experiment with my images by adding different filters on top of them. For example, I turned some of my images black and white and other with a sepia tone. I did this as I thought it made the images of the harbour taken now look old and like it would’ve looked like back in the day. I found it interesting how a once modern photograph could look vintage and old simply by putting a filter on it (despite there still being modern objects in the image).

For these next images, I decided to add a colour splash effect to some of my images. I did this by opening up photoshop and using the object selection tool in order to create a cut out of a certain object in my image. Once I had this cut out, I then right clicked on it and pressed layer via copy. Final, I pressed on my background layer and pressed adjustments and black and white in order to take the colour out of my images.

Overall, I like how these experiments came out as I got to experiment with the effect of colour on time (eg making it a sepia tone makes it look like it was taken ages ago). I also like the effect of the colour splash on my images as it draws attention to a certain object/ objects