Photo plan

• Who – These photographs will focus on storm damage of the environment. Its effects on people will be shows through homes as opposed to showcasing people.
• What – I would like to photograph immediate damage such as fallen over trees and missing roofs but also how they are being worked on and fixed such as scaffolding and machinery.
• When – These photos will be taken when the weathers not so great and ideally bits of rain. This will be reflective of the storm and the negativity caused by its damage.
• Where – There will be a mixture of woodlands and housing estates to showcase a range of effects.
• Why – To document the storm which impacted peoples homes, educations, jobs etc. It was a major event which months later is still causing problems.
• How – These images will be landscape from a distance. I would like to try exposure bracketing for HDR on some which will require a tripod. I will take some without also where a tripod wouldn’t be usable or realistic. In terms of photoshop experimentation, I would like to try and layout a newspaper of sorts.

These are all images of immediate damage from the news. In addition the JEP has created many articles and covers surrounding the topic which I would like to take inspiration from for some image presentation. I would like to experiment with placing an image in a newspaper article or similar at some point.

Photoshoot 1

For this first photoshoot I took photographs of fallen trees since I will be focussing on houses in a second one. I visited St. Catherine’s woods since many tress had fallen or been recently chopped down for safety. I changed the images into black and white and adjusted the contrasts, highlights, shadows etc. I photographed individual trees and logs mostly instead of landscapes which I didn’t realise until selecting images.

Final Image

I believe that these this one turned out the best. There is greater contrast and the photograph shows a landscape instead of just a single tree like the others.