To create this zine, I first created a page with specific things. For example, a width of 148 mm, height of 210mm, 16 pages, 2 columns with a gutter of 5mm. Then for margins, I selected 10mm for each subcategory. Finally, I made a bleed of 3mm. Once I had this blank page created, I then created a box using the rectangle frame tool. I then chose an image to put in the box which would go on my first page. I decided to use a Jersey Archive photograph as the idea of my zine is the harbour through time so I wanted to start with the oldest image I had. I decided to make this image fill up almost the whole page as it is the title page. To do this, I made the box I created initially larger then right clicked the middle of the photograph and selected fit frame proportionally. I then added a boarder to this image and made the background a grey colour to make the colour scheme of the image. Finally, I added a title to the top of the page. I decided to call it ‘St Helier Harbour through time’. Finally, I experimented with different fonts. I ultimately decided on ‘Modern No. 20’.

For my first double page, I decided to create 4 boxes where I would input 4 of my landscape images from my harbour photoshoot. At first, I made the images a bit smaller and left a lot of room for text but as I added the text I realised that I wanted to show more of the images rather than text as it looked cluttered. In the end, I made the images of the right side longer and cut down on the amount of text I had. Next, I added boarders around my images and created a background using a rectangle shape then changing the colour of the shapes to make them grey like the images. Finally, I added a drop shadow to the shapes in order to give my page some more depth.

The next page I decided to make more simpler as the last page was very full of text. So, I made one big box covering both sides of the page then added one of my landscape photographs. I then finished up this page by adding a boarder to the image and using the rectangle shape tool to create more shapes in the background (adding a drop shadow to these too).

On this page, I made two boxes, one filling up each page. I then added portrait images I had taken. This time, I decided to use the circle shape tool instead to create some contrast in my backgrounds. I layered these on top of each other, making the smaller circles darker. Finally, I made a boarder around the two images.

On this next page, I decided to add some text as I hadn’t in a while and wanted to experiment more with my layout. However, this time I decided to make one page just filled with one big image to ensure it wouldn’t look messy. On the right page. I created two rectangular boxes in the corner of each side. Then, I added text into the empty space which talked about the history of St Helier Harbour. Once I had added boarders to the images, I then used the rectangle shape tool once again to make rectangles going horizontally across the page, making each rectangle smaller and darker. Finally I added drop shadows to each of the rectangles.

This next page changed drastically to what I originally had planned. Initially, I intended to add a whole page of writing on the right page but ultimately decided against it as it was becoming overwhelming with text. So, I instead decided to use some more images from the Jersey archives such as maps and old pictures of Jersey Harbour. Also, I had first added a background of the sea but then decided to change it for just plain shapes as the vast amount of pictures and texture in the sea made it look clutter and not nice to look at.

Similarly to earlier, for this page I just added two big images to either side of the page. However, this time I made the images go right to the end of the page with no boarders on the pictures. I felt this helped to create a contrast between the writing pages previously.

In this next page, I wanted to experiment further with my layout and so I decided to create a polaroid like shape around one of my images then added a text box below it. Finally, I added rectangles going down the pages and added a boarder to the left image.

When I first added images to my zine, I put this one in but as I went through again, I decided to delete this page as I felt the image didn’t fit in with the colour scheme of the other images as the others were very blue and vibrant but this one was more dull and brown and looked out of place. This also meant I had 20 pages instead of 22 which was required for printing.

Again, this page consisted of two big images on either side. I then elevated the page by adding shapes in the background.

For my final double page, I decided to fill it up completely with one image that covered it entirely.

Finally, to finish off my zine, I added a grey background to the final page which matched the colour of the background in the first page of the zine to give it a seamless effect. I did this by adding to rectangle shapes to my blank page then using the pipette tool to get the exact colour as seen on the first page.

Zine: A tool that photographers can use to tell a visual story, to inform an audience about a specific topic or issue, to showcase and advertise a new idea or simply create a preview of an ongoing project. Zines were originally called fanzines, alluding to the fans who made them.

Once you have considered the points made between the differences in narrative and story and thought about what story you want to tell about St Helier Harbour and the images that that you have made in response, consider the following:

A story can be linear or complex, with sub-plots, twists and turns, etc. A story usually answers the question “What’s going on?” or “What are the main events?” On the other hand, a narrative encompasses the entire narrative work, including the story itself, as well as the way it is told, structured and formatted.

STORY: What is your story?
Describe in:

• 3 words
• A sentence
• A paragraph

Harbour throughout time

My pictures will tells a story of St Helier harbour throughout time going from the older harbour to the newer one.

The story my images will try to convey is the idea of how St Helier harbour and Jersey in general has grown and expanded. From back in the day where Jersey only consisted of one small harbour to now days where we have a newer, bigger, modern harbour. My pictures will also show how Jersey has expanded in landmass as my images show where once was sea is now land/ buildings.

NARRATIVE: How will you tell your story?

• Images > New St Helier Harbour photographs
• Archives > Old photographs of St Helier Harbour from SJ photo-archive or JEP Photographic Archive
• Texts > Write a short introduction or statement about your picture story, image captions
• Typography > creative uses of words, letters, font-types, sizes

I will convey this idea of time by using images I took of the older harbour and the modern harbour. Additionally, I will add filters over my images to enhance the idea of aging. For example, some of my images will be black and white like they would’ve been back in the day. On the other hand, some of my images will be in full colour (with some of the colours in the images enhanced to emphasise the point of how colour in photography has changed and grown). Finally, some of my images will be mainly black and white and then have one object in colour. I decided to do this in order to represent the time where colour slowly got introduced into photography.

I will also use these image from the JEP photographic archive which shows the old harbour and maps of it.

Add a selection of your final 10-16 images as a moodboard/ gallery to the blog post too, including any archive material too:

These are the images I am going to use in my zine. I decided to create my zine around the idea of time. For example, the first 6 images in my zine are black and white. This is representative of the olden days where images had no colour. Next, I decided to add some colour splash images to convey the idea of colour slowing being introduced to the photography world. Finally, the last set of images in my zine are coloured. This represents the present day. The use of different colouring throughout my zine almost acts as a timeline going from when images were only black and white to now when they are full of colour.

For this photoshoot, I went to the maritime museum and the old harbour. I first took images inside the museum. Next, I took images around the harbour. I took images of the boats, rubbish, fish and other things I saw whilst walking. I then exported these photos onto Lightroom and began narrowing down my images. I began with 457 and ended up with 34. I did this by assigning each image with either a white or black flag depending on whether I wanted to use it or not. Next, I gave all my images with a white flag a rating out of 5. Finally, I gave the final images I wanted to use a green colour.

Once I had narrowed down my images, I then began editing them on Lightroom. I started off with simple edits such as adjusting the exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, black, texture and clarity.

I like how this photoshoot came out as I managed to explore the older harbour more than I did in the previous photoshoot. Additionally, I like this photoshoot more as it wasn’t as cloudy. This made my images more vibrant and enjoyable to look at. However, one problem I occurred when editing my photos is that in some images there are black dots in the sky due to the camera being dirty. However, I managed to fix this in my later images by opening them up on photoshop and using the remove tool in order to get rid of them.

Edits

Similarly with my previous photoshoot, I also edited these images by adding a sepia colour on top of them or by turning them black and white in order to portray the idea of oldness and how a photo of the harbour would’ve looked like years ago.

Finally, I decided to do a colour splash on a few images from this photoshoot too as I felt it worked well with the previous one. I think these came out well due to me enhancing the colour on photoshop which I didn’t do on my previous photoshoot. This helped to make the contrast between the object(s) and background even more clearer.

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

Camera obscura and pinhole photography

A pinhole camera is a simple camera without a lens but with a tiny aperture (the pinhole). Light from a scene passes through the aperture and projects an inverted image on the opposite side of the box, which is known as the camera obscura effect. The size of the images depends on the distance between the object and the pinhole.

A camera obscura is a dark room with a small hole in one wall. When it’s bright outside, light enters through the hole and projects an upside down image of the outside world onto the wall opposite the hole. This was before 1839 (which is when photography was thought to be invented). Its appears upside down as light travels in straight lines.

A simple camera obscura can be made with a box that contains an opening on one side where light can pass through. When light passes through the opening, an image is then reproduced upside down on an opposite surface.

Nicephore Niepce and Heliography 

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was a French inventor and one of the earliest pioneers of photography. Niépce developed heliography, a technique he used to create the world’s oldest surviving products of a photographic process. In 1826, Niépce used his heliography process to capture the first photograph, but his pioneering work was soon to be overshadowed by the invention of the daguerreotype.

Heliography is an early photographic process producing a photoengraving on a metal plate coated with an asphalt preparation. Nicéphore Niépce began experiments with the aim of achieving a photo-etched printmaking technique in 1811. To make the heliograph, Niépce dissolved light-sensitive bitumen in oil of lavender and applied a thin coating over a polished pewter plate. He inserted the plate into a camera obscura and positioned it near a window in his second-story workroom.

By 1822 he had made the first light-resistant heliographic copy of an engraving, made without a lens by placing the print in contact with the light-sensitive plate. In 1826 he increasingly used pewter plates because their reflective surface made the image more clearly visible.

Louis Daguerre and Daguerreotype 

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was a French artist and photographer, recognised for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography. He became known as one of the fathers of photography. The daguerreotype process made it possible to capture the image seen inside a camera obscura and preserve it as an object. It was the first practical photographic process and ushered in a new age of pictorial possibility.

After Niépce’s death, Daguerre alone kept on researching how to take images and invented the daguerreotype, a photographic process which was easier to put into practice, since exposure times were only of a few minutes. The daguerreotype knew a huge success and made Daguerre world famous.

The Boulevard du Temple photograph of 1838 is an image of a Parisian streetscape and one of the earliest surviving daguerreotype plates produced by Louis Daguerre. Although the image seems to be of a deserted street, it is widely considered to be the first photograph to include an image of a human.

The daguerreotype was the first commercially successful photographic process (1839-1860) in the history of photography. Named after the inventor, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, each daguerreotype is a unique image on a silvered copper plate. In contrast to photographic paper, a daguerreotype is not flexible and is rather heavy. The daguerreotype is accurate, detailed and sharp. It has a mirror-like surface and is very fragile. 

To make the image, a daguerreotypist polished a sheet of silver-plated copper to a mirror finish; treated it with fumes that made its surface light-sensitive; exposed it in a camera for as long as was judged to be necessary, which could be as little as a few seconds for brightly sunlit subjects or much longer with less intense lighting; made the resulting latent image on it visible by fuming it with mercury vapor; removed its sensitivity to light by liquid chemical treatment; rinsed and dried it; and then sealed the easily marred result behind glass in a protective enclosure. This process produced positives (which means it’s a one off and copies can’t be created).

Henry Fox Talbot  and Calotype

William Henry Fox Talbot was an English scientist, inventor, and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries. In 1834 he discovered how to make and fix images through the action of light and chemistry on paper. These ‘negatives’ could be used to make multiple prints and this process revolutionised image making.

Calotype is an early photographic process introduced in 1841 by William Henry Fox Talbot, using paper coated with silver iodide. Paper texture effects in calotype photography limit the ability of this early process to record low contrast details and textures.

The original negative and positive process invented by William Henry Fox Talbot, the calotype is sometimes called a “Talbotype.” This process uses a paper negative to make a print with a softer, less sharp image than the daguerreotype, but because a negative is produced, it is possible to make multiple copies. The image is contained in the fabric of the paper rather than on the surface, so the paper fibers tend to show through on the prints. The process was superceded in the 1850s by the collodion glass negative. Because of Talbot’s patent rights, relatively few calotypes were made in the United States.

In this technique, a sheet of paper coated with silver chloride was exposed to light in a camera obscura; those areas hit by light became dark in tone, yielding a negative image.

Similarities between daguerreotype and calotype:

1. -Both black and white
2. -Both have links to romanticism (ie capturing loved ones in a photograph)
3. -Both involve photographs being fixed onto a surface (eg metal or salt paper)
4. -Both were invented in 1839 (they came out at similar times due to competition

Differences:

1. -One is produced on salt paper whereas the other is on metal 
2. -The calotype process first produced a photographic ‘negative’ in the camera, from which many ‘positive’ calotype prints could be made, whereas daguerreotypes were a one-off image.

Robert Cornelius & self-portraiture

Robert Cornelius was an American photographer and pioneer in the history of photography. His daguerreotype self-portrait taken in 1839 is generally accepted as the first known photographic portrait of a person taken in the United States, and a very important achievement for self-portraiture. He operated some of the earliest photography studios in the United States between 1840 and 1842 and implemented innovative techniques to significantly reduce the exposure time required for portraits.

Robert Cornelius figured out how to take the first ever selfie by setting up a camera on legs, removing the lens cap, and running into the frame before quickly clamping the lens cap back on. By doing so, he captured a self-portrait of himself, which is considered the first ever selfie.

Julia Margaret Cameron & Pictorialism

Julia Margaret Cameron was 48 when she received her first camera, a gift from her daughter and son-in-law. When Cameron took up photography, it involved hard physical work using potentially hazardous materials. The wooden camera was large and cumbersome. She used the most common process at the time, producing albumen prints from wet collodion glass negatives. The process required a glass plate to be coated with photosensitive chemicals in a darkroom and exposed in the camera when still damp. The glass negative was then returned to the darkroom to be developed, washed and varnished. Prints were made by placing the negative directly on to sensitised photographic paper and exposing it to sunlight. Each step of the process offered room for mistakes: the fragile glass plate had to be perfectly clean to start with and kept free from dust throughout; it needed to be evenly coated and submerged at various stages; the chemical solutions had to be correctly and freshly prepared.

Within a month of receiving her camera, she made the photograph that she called her ‘first success’, a portrait of Annie Philpot, the daughter of a family staying in the Isle of Wight where Cameron lived. 

From her ‘first success’ she moved on quickly to photographing family and friends. These early portraits reveal how she experimented with soft focus, dramatic lighting and close-up compositions, features that would become her signature style. However, she was criticised against because she included imperfections in her photographs – eg streaks, swirls and even fingerprints – that other photographers would have rejected as technical flaws.

Pictorialism is an approach to photography that emphasises beauty of subject matter, tonality, and composition rather than the documentation of reality.

Henry Mullins & Carte-de-Visite 

Henry Mullins was the most prolific of the first generation of Jersey photographers in the mid-nineteenth century. He produced thousands of portraits of islanders between 1848 and 1873 at his highly successful studio in the prime location of the Royal Square, St Helier. As a commercial photographer he consistently embraced the rapid technical progress that ran in parallel with his career. While numerous photographic studios opened across the town of St Helier in the 1850s and 1860s, Henry Mullins continued to be the photographer of choice for leading members of Jersey society and successful local and immigrant families. 

A carte de visite is a photograph mounted on a piece of card the size of a formal visiting card. The format was patented by the French photographer Andre Adolphe Eugene Disdéri in 1854. Most professional portrait photographers of the 1850s took either daguerreotypes or collodion positives.

Saint Helier Harbour is the main harbour on the Channel Island of Jersey. It is on the south coast of the island, occupying most of the coast of the main town of St Helier. It is operated by Ports of Jersey, a company wholly owned by the Government of Jersey.

Before 1700 St Helier had no decent harbour although a map of 1545 does show two stone piers in the area under Le Mont de la Ville, near where South Pier is today. The modern harbour dates back to the construction of the stone fronted quay at La Folie in the early 1700s.

Etymology: Saint Helier Harbour is named after Helier, a 6th-century ascetic hermit from Belgium. The traditional date of his martyrdom is AD 555. His feast day, marked by an annual municipal and ecumenical pilgrimage to the Hermitage, is on 16 July.

History: The harbour was constructed in the early 19th century. Previously, ships coming into the town had only a small jetty at the site now called the English Harbour and the French Harbour. The Chamber of Commerce urged the States Assembly to build a new harbour, but they refused, so the Chamber took it into their own hands and paid to upgrade the harbour in 1790. A new breakwater was constructed to shelter the jetty and harbours. In 1814, the merchants constructed the roads now known as Commercial Buildings and Le Quai des Marchands to connect the harbours to the town and in 1832 construction was finished on the Esplanade and its sea wall. A rapid expansion in shipping led the States of Jersey in 1837 to order the construction of two new piers: the Victoria and Albert Piers.

The Old harbour: English Harbour and French Harbour have berths for over 500 motorboats and sailing yachts which dry out on the mud at low tide.

Main harbour: The main harbour provides deep water berths for commercial vessels alongside the Victoria Quay and New North Quay. On Victoria Quay you will find fish wholesalers such as, Fresh Fish Company and Aquamar Fisheries. Albert Pier has now been re-developed from a ferry terminal to new berths for large vessels and yachts.

Elizabeth harbour: The Elizabeth Harbour consists of a ferry terminal, two roll-on/roll-off ferry berths and a trailer park for shipping containers. These are used by high-speed craft to Poole, Guernsey and Saint-Malo, traditional ferries to Saint-Malo, Guernsey and Portsmouth and foot passenger ferries to Granville, Barneville-Carteret and Sark.

Marinas: There are three marinas — the La Collette Yacht Basin, the Saint Helier Marina (built in 1980) and the Elizabeth Marina. The La Collette Yacht Basin is the only one of these to provide non-tidal, 24-hour access to the sea and is home to Jersey’s commercial fishing fleet.

What was the involvement of Jersey mariners in the Canadian cod-fisheries and the Transatlantic carrying trade?

More than 400 years ago, the first Islanders crossed the Atlantic ocean in search of pastures new (a new place/ activity that offers new opportunities). They went over in order to raid the cod-rich seas of the American and Canadian coast, which would then be sold later. (Merchants).

Its unclear when the first Europeans reached Canada, but it is thought to be Italian explorer John Cabot’s descriptions of ‘new found landes’ and a sea swarming with fish in 1497 that drew fishermen to the north of the continent. Around 1600, English fishing captains still reported cod shoals.

By the beginning of the 16th-century Basque fishermen were travelling to the region to fish and, by 1580, around 10,000 European fishermen were making the transatlantic voyage to the area each year to fish for cod. Channel Island fishermen were among these and by the 1750s they had set up lucrative trade routes between Canada, Europe and America, establishing bases on the Gaspé Coast where they could salt and prepare the cod. One of the biggest companies on the Gaspé coast was operated by Charles Robin, a Jersey merchant, who set up a fishing post at Paspebiac in 1767 after Canada passed to the English.

Which ports did Jersey ships sail to and trade with?

Jersey ships sailed to the Gaspé Coast in which they then salted and prepared the cod they had caught. The nearer the fishermen were to the coast, the harder it was to catch the cod, but Channel Islanders experience with coastal fishing made use of their skills. Some other ports they sailed to was on the Newfoundland and South America.

What type of goods did Jersey merchants exchange for cod-fish?

Cod from Canada produced by Jersey merchants was consumed by enslaved people. Jersey cod-merchants also exported cod-fish to British colonies in the West Indies and later Brazil too in exchange for plantation goods, such as sugar, molasses, rum, cotton, coffee and tobacco which it brought to markets in America, Europe and the UK (inc. Jersey). Within that context Jersey benefitted from the profits made in the British Empire build on a capitalist model of a slave-based economy.

To what extent, has the island of Jersey benefitted from its constitutional relationship with Britain and the legacies of colonialism based on a slave plantation economy during the first Industrial Revolution (1760-1840)?

Jersey was not a bystander in the transatlantic slave trade – but played an “active” and even “pioneering” role in it

Jersey had grown prosperous through its strong connections to the United Kingdom. People generated wealth from trading enslaved people. For example, the founder of New Jersey, Sir George Carteret. Some of the most common Jersey structures to end up involved with the salve trade were boats eg Speedwell, commandeered by Sir George Carteret’s son, James Carteret.

Jersey’s links with the slave trade “chiefly” stem from the mahogany industry. Mahogany was harvested using enslaved people. Many Jersey merchants either owned or traded in mahogany and some Jersey families even had mahogany plantations in British Honduras.

In order to create my picture story, I used InDesign. We first created a page on it using certain dimensions so that we had four columns doing down it and a boarder. To do this, I first selected an A4 sized paper and made it landscape (width= 410mm, height= 297mm) then made 4 columns with a column gutter of 5mm. My margins were 10mm and I had a bleed of 3mm.

Next, I created a box in which I would add my image into. I did this by using the rectangle frame tool. Next, I pressed ctrl d which then opened up to my photos I had taken in France. I decided that I wanted to create a picture story focusing on the architecture of St Malo. I ensured that all of my images were black and white beforehand so there was consistency in my work. If my image wasn’t lined up correctly, I right clicked on the circle in the box and selected fitting then fit frame proportionally. I repeated this step of adding boxes and images to them until I had the desired amount. Next, I added writing into the empty spaces on the page. This writing included the history of St Malo and other facts. Finally, I added a title ‘behind the wall of St Malo’.

Once I had created my basic outline of my picture story, I then added details into it to make it more pleasing to look at. Firstly, I added a dark grey boarder around all of my images in order to create a contrast between the background and the images.

Next, I decided that I wanted to add a background to my picture story that would consist of another image I had taken in the photoshoot. I first copied the original picture story beforehand so I could experiment with it more than once. When I first added this image to the background, it was quite dark and made the picture story look very crowded and made it difficult to read the words on the page. In order to fix this, I lowered the opacity of the background of the image. This made it lighter and enabled you to establish the difference between the background and the pictures.

Finally, I added an outer glow to my title in order to make it more prominent.

Next, I decided to create the French flag on the background of the picture story. I did this by adding shapes onto my page and adding colour to them. I also experimented with adding circles instead of just rectangles. Then adding circles within circles. A problem I occurred whilst doing this was that there was overlay of the shapes from one page to another. In order to fix this problem, I had to adjust the level the shapes were on and create white boxes to hide some.

Final outcomes

These are my final outcomes for the picture stories. Overall, I like how these came out as I think I managed to successfully experiment with InDesign and create unique, interesting picture stories. However, one improvement I would make to this is by creating a picture story with other images eg with people as mine only consisted of the same images of buildings. I would also have liked to experiment with using colours in my photographs instead of making them all black and white.

Photo story means presenting a story or essay primarily through images. Many photo stories have written elements that help narrate the story. And, individual images may even have captions that give more in-depth information or context to that photo. It is important to ensure that all of the photographs link to the story and remove any anomalies that don’t fit into the story your trying to convey.

Establishing shot: Establishing shots are typically wide or extreme wide shots of buildings or landscapes. These shots might include signage, landmarks, or other obvious signals of place and time. This type of photo gives the audience viewing the story context. An establishing shot is the first shot in a scene that provides an overview of the setting. It is often shot from above as an aerial shot, offering a view from a distance that helps the audience orient themselves to and identify the time and/or location in which the scene is occurring.

Person at work: This next type of shot involves an image being captured of someone in their own work environment. Typically in these images, the person seen in the photograph is completing a task/ activity which relates to their job. The background of the image holds high importance in the viewer being able to understand the context of the image. The objects/ things seen around them can provide as clues in order to figure out what profession the person in the image has.

Relationship shot: A relationship shot captures a connection between people whether that be platonic or romantic. Eg family, friends, couples.

Detail shot: Detail shots often tell the story of the situation by focusing on a relatively small portion of it. Details shots also can be images that, through compositional techniques, draw attention to a specific detail of a subject that might otherwise have gone unnoticed.

Environmental portrait: An environmental portrait is a portrait executed in the subject’s usual environment, such as in their home or workplace, and typically illuminates the subject’s life and surroundings.

These are some examples of picture stories. Each one has unique details added to it in order to make it different from one another eg different backgrounds, colours, text fonts, layouts etc.

With people

For these edits, I used my photographs I took in St Malo. I decided to experiment with different cropping styles eg portrait, landscape, panoramic, square and circle. These lead to some unique, different images.

Portrait crop:

For this type of crop, I opened up a landscape image I had taken then used the cropping tool on photoshop in order to turn it into a portrait image. I decided to off centre the people in the image slightly and include a bit more of the background in it for context. The decisive moment in this image is the lady pointing.

Panoramic Crop:

For the panoramic crop, I used the same landscape photograph but this time used the cropping tool to create a panorama which involved only the top halves of the peoples bodies being in the image and some more of the background.

Square crop:

In order to create this square crop, I opened up an image I had taken then selected the crop tool then changed it from ratio to 1:1 (square). I then adjusted the image to ensure the two people were in the centre of it.

Experimenting:

For these next set of images, I wanted to experiment further with using the different crop tools and other various tools. Firstly, I used the rectangular marquee tool to create a rectangle slightly smaller than the whole image in the centre. I then right clicked on the rectangle and pressed layer via copy. Once I had created this new layer, I then decided to colour it black and white. Next, I created a smaller rectangle inside of the rectangle I had just made. I then selected the bottom layer (colour layer) then right clicked on the rectangle and clicked layer via copy. This ensured that my rectangle was in colour and not black and white like my previous one. To finish this idea off, I added a drop shadow to the rectangles. This helped to enhance the contrast between the black and white rectangle and the colourful ones.

For this idea, I used the elliptical marquee tool in order to create a circle shape. I decided to draw the circle around the two people, highlighting the decisive moment in the image. I then right clicked on the circle and pressed layer via copy. Then in order to make the circle stand out I decided to make the background black and white and keep the circle and people in colour. Finally, I added a drop shadow to create some depth and contrast in the image.

For the next few images, I created a colour splash in which I made the people in the image have colour and then make the background black and white. I did this by using the object selection tool to select the people I wanted to highlight then pressing layer via copy. Once I had them all cut out, I then made the background black and white by going onto image then adjustments then pressing black and white. Finally, I decided I wanted to enhance the colours of the people so I exported them into Lightroom then used the colour section on it to change the hue, saturation and luminance. I like how these images turned out as they bring attention to the people as the bright colours seen on their clothes contrast drastically with the black and white background.

Without people

Panoramic crop:

I then experimented with creating a panoramic crop again but this time with a landscape picture. I think this crop was successful as it only shows the necessary parts of the image and got rid of any random objects at the bottom of the image.

Circle crop:

I then experimented with using a circle crop. I did this by using the elliptical marquee tool on photoshop in order to create a circle shape around a certain part of one of my images. However, I didn’t like how just one circle looked on a plain white background and so I decided to try out different things. For example, I opened up a new, different image and then dragged the cut out from the other image onto it. Then added a drop shadow to the circle in order to make the difference more clear and prominent.

Next, I used the elliptical marquee tool on 6 different images. Once I had all of my cut outs, I then opened up a plain sheet of paper and dragged them all onto it. To finish this idea off, I added a drop shadow to all of the circles. I think the many circles instead of just one looks better and more interesting and allows you to see more of St Malo.

Polygon crop:

For the final crop, I used the polygonal tool. With this tool, I drew a triangular shape on my image and then right clicked on it and pressed layer via copy. I then tried different colour scenarios eg making the triangle black and white and the background in the colour, and making the triangle in colour and the background black and white. I also added a drop shadow to both. Finally, I tried using an outer glow effect on the triangle as a way to emphasise it more due to the image being quite dark already.

Experimentation

For the next two images, I superimposed two images. I did this by opening up on image to start with then opening up another one and dragging it on top of the original one. I then readjusted the size of it so it filled the page. Next, I lowered the opacity of the top layer in order for the bottom layer to become more visible. Finally, in one of the images I selected the top layer and then pressed on adjustment pre-sets then selected ‘cinematic-split tone’ in order to add a green-red colour to my image.

These were inspired by Stephanie Jung.