Whilst being at the maritime museum and visiting the harbours I had the opportunity to photograph multiple harbours, buildings and historical artefacts. I attempted to incorporate a balanced amount of different images whilst primarily focusing on the harbours and boats of Jersey.

Contact Sheet.

My Edited Photos.

My favourite Edited Photos.

These three Images I like because I have edited them to be very vibrant and colourful as I think they stand out and look very interesting as they are eye-catching. To make these images so eye-catching I primarily increased the vibrance and slightly the saturation. I also then made it into Adobe Photoshop and created a virtual gallery and created them into a strong arragementHere is an example of my camera settings on Adobe Lightroom.

These images all consist of harbours in Jersey such as St Helier harbours and marinas which are essential when it comes to Jersey history. I like how these images show Jersey in the modern day and how it has developed into a very industrial orientated site due to fishing and boats. This makes the harbour a very loud and busy place at times with many workers doing multiple jobs surrounding fishing, manufacturing, transporting and preparing the fish.

Black and White Images.

I particularly enjoyed photographing and learning about the fisherman and different workers and jobs that are essential when it comes to maintaining and caring for St Helier harbours. Photographing the workers was my favourite part of the trip as I feel these images only incorporate a second of the work that is necessary for Jersey’s fishing trade to be so successful. These photos also show the different roles there are when it comes to seafood production. I put these images into black and white as I feel these solo shots f different individuals would look strong as a quadtych with all 4 photos in a frame arrangement.

For example, here is the 4 images of people at work on Jersey harbours in a quadtych arrangement of images. I made this arrangement on Adobe Photoshop. However, to make this image stronger, I need to export my images out of Lightroom and import them into Photoshop to make the images clearer instead of using screen grabs.

To improve on this photoshoot, I would have liked to get more photos of manual workers as I think they are the most important component when it comes to harbours as they are the reason why they were created. I also think they are a great source of history and facts when it comes to harbours and boats.

For this virtual gallery I also created a tryptic where 3 vibrant photos are in an arrangement that fits the best. I also then created another arrangement of 5 images which I think makes he wall look overcrowded and confusing but was good for experimentation.

Overall, I think this photoshoot was very helpful and effective when helping my knowledge of Jersey’s maritime history. To improve, next time I would experiment with different camera settings and take more photos.