For the first shoot, I visited Societe Jersiaise researching old photos of the harbour with archivists. Having done some research I went on a guided walk, with a former harbour master, learning about the new and old harbours. I then took photos of the harbours and everything in and around them, capturing the details of the harbour to the the harbour as a whole.

I then went onto upload and edit the photos, starting by going through the photos, colour coding each one, ether red, green or yellow.

I then went through the green flagged photos and selected the best from those, this allowed me to have a small selection of good photos to then select a few good ones that go well together to edit.

First Edit

For this photo I cropped it to centre the buoys, this fits the photo into the grid lines (rule of thirds).

By making small adjustments to the colour I brought out the colour in the faded buoys and the sea, this also helped bring out the texture of the sea.

Edit Two

I liked the diagonal line the boats create in this photo so I then edited the colours to reduce the highlights as the glare on the boats was quite harsh form the lighting. I cropped photo to highlight the line and frame the photo better, this also removed the cars as in the frame it was distracting.

Edit Three

Edit Four

For this photo I sorted the slight angle and also cropped the image down so background wasn’t as visible. This helped create a further ambiguous effect, not revealing the background or context.

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Edit Six

For this photo there was spots that were distracting so after the colour editing I used the spot heal tool to neaten up the photo.

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Final Edits

Final Evaluation on this photoshoot

This photoshoot was the bas of my ideas, capturing everyone and everything at the harbour to create a style of images. I particularly liked the detail shots, or otherwise known as abstract shots. I think these help add emphasis on how brutal the harbour can be with the constant soaking in salt and open windy area. I also picked some with the boats and also the trucks, shipping containers to show how the sea a natural thing has been industrialised through the years with constant improvement on the harbour as not only times progress commercially but as industries die out. By using the 70-200mm lens I had many strong, high quality photos however I think it would be great to revisit these areas with a wider angle lens to add deeper context on the areas with broader shots now I have gotten the smaller details and started to understand the harbour around me. Particularly having done the research on the harbour before hand it gave me a strong base to capture the essence of the harbour. I chose not to change the colours as I actually think the bright colours make up a huge part of the harbour and highlight the development over time of the harbour from dull steel and wooden boats historically to bright cheap plastic dingy to carry people to the new shiny mechanised boats of the modern day.