For my photoshoot focusing on romanticism, I decided to go to the beach when it was clear weather and high tide to take pictures close up of the sea against the rocks. I will go down to the shore where the tide begins to wash onto the rocks and surfaces. I plan to go on a day that is particularly windy in order for there to be large waves which I can photograph. I wanted to overall capture the dramatic moment where the water crashes against the rocks and splashes. I decided to photograph this to communicate the idea of the sublime in my pictures; shown in the moment of tension between these two forms of nature. I am going to use a fast shutter speed to capture a sharp moment of the splash so the clarity and definition of the water is effectively enhanced.
Photoshoot
Best and Edited Photos
This selection of pictures definitely turned out the best as they aligned the most with my photoshoot plan and artistic goal. The sublime can be seen clearly as the waves crash uncontrollability and unpredictably against the rocks; enhanced by the crisp shot of the movement of the water. When editing my most effective photos, I first aligned the horizon to ensure the lines did not distract from the focal point. I tweaked the saturation to brighten the blue of the sea and sky to further the contrast between them and the rocks; also making sure to keep a natural balance. Finally, I toggled the highlights and shadows in order to have a large dynamic range in my photographs; bringing in definition to each area of the image.
Creative Edits and Presentation
During my selection process, I discovered that I wanted to display these three images together and separately from my other strongest photographs. When taking my photos with fast shutter speed, I noticed that I was capturing different stages of the event of the splash with my camera. I thought this was interesting as it played as a storytelling of the creation of the sublime. It was alluring to see the various levels of tension which came before the visuals of a final photo; displaying the moments leading up to the splash and multiple times of a shot. I was able to communicate an almost stop motion gradual of the event. To separate this triptych of photos further from the rest, despite them having the same format in terms of composition, I edited them on Photoshop Lightroom using a few of the preset photo filters in order to achieve a golden hour tone. Wishing to display these in a horizontal line to solidify my goal of progression in nature, I imported these images onto Artsteps in my own virtual gallery where I then aligned them to be finally presented.
I took my photos on and around Petit Port beach, as well as near the Corbiere cliffsides to try and replicate the style of Ansel Adams.
Settings – I aimed to use high aperture values to try keep as much of the image in focus and detailed as possible, similarly to group f/64. I also kept ISO to a minimum to avoid visual noise and was able to use shutter speed values of around 1/50 and 1/60 since it was very sunny.
Angles/Perspective – I used Ansel Adams’ visualisation method to visualise an image before I took the photograph to see how it would turn out, and using this I was able to have the camera’s perspective focus on rocks, cliffsides and water since these contrast nicely with each other as well as creating shadows which work well with HDR/exposure bracketing and would create lots of drama when experimenting with black and white in editing. I also aimed to have the sky take up roughly the top third of the image, creating further contrast as well as adding some negative space and drama so the entire image isn’t cluttered with excessive detail.
Timings – I went late afternoon/early evening so the sunlight would be at it’s peak in order for me to be able to capture effective images with a wide range of shadows for exposure bracketing, as well as enabling me to experiment with slightly more atmospheric images with the sunset.
Contact Sheet
Final results after photoshoot – 198 photos total
Selection
During my selection process, I aimed to choose images that had a sense of drama and would present a range of dark and light tones when edited to be black and white. I also aimed to select images with lots of shadows to allow exposure bracketing to bring out details.
Some of my selected photos:
I selected this image since I thought using HDR would bring out lots of detail in the shadows and create an interesting landscape with balanced exposure, similarly to the style of Ansel Adams. I also liked the composition, with darker shadows on the rocks on the left and more sunlight illuminating the rocks on the right as well as the sky being positioned about 2/3 up the image.
I chose this image because I like the light reflecting of the water in the bottom of the picture, as well as the balance of shadows and illumination throughout the rocks. Although the sky is bleached out due to the sun, I will try and use HDR and masking in Lightroom to adjust the sky to add more detail to the sky as well as contrasting it from the foreground.
Editing/Experimentation
I opened this photo in Lightroom and went into develop mode to use the HDR editing, merging 3 versions of the same image at different exposures to capture detail in less exposed areas.
To achieve this effect, I used the golden hour preset, added some dark post-crop vignetting and used the settings above. This adds a nice colour contrast between the orange sky and blue sea, whilst still maintaining good enough exposure to make out details in shadows and have a range of tones from light to dark.
This image was created using HDR photo merge and then decreasing highlights and increasing shadows. The natural light casted onto the rocks creates an effective contrast between the light and shadows on the rocks, as well as complimenting the lighter tones in the sky with the darker tones in the sea nicely.
Before vs After
Finally, I added some slight vignette and increased the clarity and decreased the dehaze. The final result maintains good exposure on all parts of the image which when combined with the use of a high aperture brings out every detail in the image.
For this image I first HDR photo merged it, and noticed overall it was quite underexposed.
I then increased the exposure and decreased the highlights to bring more details as well as making the photo more visible.
Experimenting with black and white but I don’t like how the sky looks, so I used the masking tool in Lightroom to adjust it and make it contrast more visibly with the lighter tones of the cliff.
Final product, effectively exposed to maintain detail throughout the image as well as having the sky be darker to create a sense of drama.
Before vs after HDR. Noticeably more exposed with more details visible in shadows, creating more drama and taking more influence from the style of Ansel Adams.
Experimenting with black and white, very effective in bringing out the tonal difference throughout the rocks and creating drama although I don’t like the colour of the sky.
Darkening the sky since it was too light and stood out, now creating more balanced contrasts between light and dark tones. Final image has a greater sense of drama.
Original HDR image, with adjustment of exposure and shadows to further bring out detail in areas not very well-illuminated by the sun.
Black and white variation, effective with lighter tones noticeable in the clouds and sky, midtones on some of the illuminated parts of the rocks and dark tones in the shadows created on some rocks from the sun.
Exposure increased on the sky to make lighter tones more noticeable, as well as decreasing highlights and shadows and increasing contrast to bring out darker tones in the clouds.
Initial version of the image using HDR, I like it since the vibrance of the rocks exposed by sunlight contrast nicely with the shadows mainly on the left of the image as well as the sky.
When made black and white, I liked the drama created but noticed detail was lost in the shadows so I will increase shadows/exposure to restore this.
Increased shadows, next I tried to manipulate the sky to make it contrast more nicely with the cliffside and the rocks.
Presentation in ArtSteps
I chose to present all the black and white images together since they all are of similar subjects/landscapes, and this combined with the light and dark tones of each image group them all together effectively, enhancing the drama and atmosphere created by each individual photo. The other two are presented in a diptych, with the darker sky and shadows of the first image contrasting with the lighter tones and sky of the second image, which I found very effective since these two images are creating different atmospheres allowing for this presentation to amplify this contrast.
Photoshoot Evaluation
Overall, I found my photos to be effective in presenting a range of tones as well as creating drama while maintaining Ansel Adams’ style of high aperture values and keeping everything well enough exposed to allow every detail to be visible. Editing also allowed for me to create HDR photos and experiment with black and white, helping me achieve my intention behind each image as well as helping to reinforce the atmosphere each individual image is trying to create.
Comparison Against Ansel Adams
Technical – Both photos were taken outdoors, and thus all of the lighting is natural – both also use a high aperture to create a large depth of field and keep every detail in focus. Finally, there is a visible use of the zone system to have a wide range of different tones from light to dark (also helping to add more drama to the image), so I think I have successfully replicated Ansel Adams’ style.
Visual – Ansel Adams’ image was taken from high up in a mountain range, capturing another mountain range in the distance as well as the river and landscape below all of which uses the zone system to create visible contrast between light and dark tones. My image contains a similar range of light and dark tones, although the sky has been darkened slightly since I found it to be a bit bleached out so it doesn’t have as many lighter tones although the scene itself still has a sense of drama similarly to Adams’ photo.
Conceptual – The idea behind Ansel Adams’ photography was to use high apertures to maintain noticeable detail in every area of the image, showing off the beauty of nature (linking to his work as an environmentalist) and to have a wide range of tones in each image, creating drama. I think both his image and mine make effective use of these techniques.
Exposure Bracketing: when you bracket your shots you take exactly the same picture of your subject at several different exposures. One that is slightly under-exposed (negative exposure), and the second one slightly over-exposed (positive exposure)
Exposure Condensation: is how you manually set the exposure for each photo. It can quickly adjust how light or how dark your exposure will be using these controls
Start with 1 stop variations. So, take a shot at -1 on the exposure compensation dial, then turn the dial so it reads -2 and then -3. Repeat, this time overexposing at +1, +2, and +3. You may not use all these images in the final HDR but it’s good to have the data just in case
AEB:
Automatic Exposure Bracketing is when the camera automatically takes three or more shots, each at a different exposure.
Or set the amount of “bracketing” like this…
In the menu, select the second tab and go to ‘Expo. Comp. /AEB
Use the dial on the top of the camera to set the range of exposure you want to capture with your 2nd and 3rd photo
After you have set the exposure range, you will see two extra marks on the exposure metre…
Now take 3 photos and your camera will automatically change the exposure for each one.
TIP: You can also set the camera to continuous shooting, to take 3 photos in close succession – all you need to do is hold the shutter button down.
HDR Photos: is a technique that helps you get details in the brightest and darkest parts of your photographs. It can be achieved by taking multiple bracket images and blend them together to create a single beautifully exposed photograph with a full dynamic range of tone.
To achieve the following Images, I edited the Vignette, Exposure Bracketing, HDR and Vibrancy
Of course I couldn’t use the same settings for all my Landscape Photos. E.g. using the same Vibrancy setting to make the image too colourful or adding a Vignette to a slightly brighter image which blends in quite well creating a fading effect and using the same Vignette on a different image that is darker wont make it stand out as much.
A Panoramic landscape is wide, with expansive views that will capture a large area of scenery in one image, often showcasing the beauty of nature.
Is a technique of photography, using specialized equipment or a type of software, that captures images with horizontally elongated fields of view.
Advantages
There is a wider angle of view, so you can more of the landscape.eg, foreground, background and the middle ground.
There is compositional freedom, which means as we can assemble the resulting panorama from as many frames as we like.
The quality of the panorama is much higher compared to the single shots from wide-angle lenses in particular, as we avoid all the aforementioned negatives of wide-angle lenses.
Disadvantages
There needs to be a high level of skill due to the difficultly of taking panoramas. The photographer should already be quite experienced, as they have to cover a wide range of activities.
The image does not display the fine anatomic detail.
There are compositional limitations. Even though wide-angle lenses can cover a really wide area, they are still not without limit. We are then limited by what we can or cannot fit into the lens’ frame.
How To Create A Panoramic Landscape ?
To make a Panoramic Landscape you can either take a photo of the landscape with your camera that has a Panoramic mode or if your camera does not contain that mode then the traditional method would be to take pictures of your landscape but making sure you take it from all angles from left to right to top to bottom, making sure you leave enough room for the images to overlap. So you can create this effect.
Once you take all these pictures you can insert them into a program like Photoshop or Lightroom and there should be an option to Photo merge them into a Panoramic image. Then you just adjust the images and edit them to your preference and then you should have a Panoramic Landscape.
David Hockney
David Hockney is an English painter, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries .Born: July 9, 1937 (age 87 years),Bradford.
There are different types of lighting due to over 700 images in this one photo, but I think it mostly natural outside lighting. You cant tell the aperture because there are many images combined.
‘Pear blossom Highway’ is showing a crossroad in a very wide open space, which you only get a sense of in the western United States. [The] picture was not just about a crossroads, but about us driving around. I’d had three days of driving and being the passenger. The driver and the passenger see the road in different ways.
When you drive you read all the road signs, to check where you are driving. When you’re the passenger, you don’t, you can decide to look where you want.
The littered cans and bottles and the meandering line where the pavement ends and the sand begins point to the interruption of the desert landscape by the roads cutting through it and the imprint of careless travellers
David Hockney described his circumstances leading to the creation of this photocollage of the scenic Pear blossom Highway in the north of Los Angeles. His detailed collage reveals the more observations of a road trip.
Exposure bracketing is when you bracket your shots you take exactly the same picture of your subject at several different exposures. This technique gives you a range of options to choose from when you’re editing. As a result, it’s much less likely that you’ll end up with a badly underexposed or overexposed photo.
HDR
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I took the top three images using the technique called exposure bracketing I stood my camera up on a bench to get these photos and i changes the exposure from a high exposure to a low exposure and then a photo with the standard exposure 0.
I took these images in late afternoon around 6pm,I took pictures of the landscape around my house, my idea was to take images in late afternoon because it adds a certain mood to it and also it relates to romanticism which was a topic we were recently studying about and I liked how the images are quite dark.
Because I took these set of pictures late afternoon there wasn’t much light so some photos came put really dark.
Favourite images that I took
These were the images that I liked they are all quite dark but that’s something I was looking for, I really like the 1st and 2nd image where all the image is really dark but the sunset is really defined.
editing on Lightroom
I edited this image so the sunset would have more contrast and be brighter, and the rest to be darker so the focus is on the sunset.
I really like this image because since I used a high ISO the image created a more vintage look which since we are studying older photographers I think this image fits really well.
I tried editing it to black and white but I prefer the original one, because of the blue undertone that it has.
This is the original image which I like but I think it would look better in black and white and it also shows more relation to Ansel Adams.
This image didn’t turn out the way I wanted but I still wanted somehow make it work through editing on Lightroom, After trying different contrast, exposures etc, I found that Black and white was the best option for this image.
An image showing a field of view approximating, or greater than, that of the human eye – about 160° by 75° – may be termed panoramic. This generally means it has an aspect ratio of 2:1 or larger, the image being at least twice as wide as it is high. The resulting images take the form of a wide strip.
Joiner Photos
Joiner photography is a fairly new technique of photography. A joiner, designed by Hockney is when the artist assembles an image from several overlapping photographs. David Hockney is the most notable artist that uses this technique, hence the common referral of joiners as “Hockney’s”
David Hockney
Who was he?
David Hockney is a contemporary English photographer and painter best known for his Lovely panoramic Hockney is well known for his collage-style photographs and his realist painting style. Additionally, his work was very important to the pop art movement.
David Hockney was initially hesitant about the limitations of photography, expressing reservations about its static and singular perspective. However, his appreciation for the medium dramatically blossomed after curator Alain Sayag convinced him to present his work in Paris.
Some of his work
All of his collage work is made by hundreds of individual pictures that by themselves hold very little meaning but put together can create a community of pictures that represent a larger image
A Panoramic image is a technique of taking a photo of what’s in front of you but capturing it at a wide angle. The difference between a wide angle photo and a Panoramic is that a Panoramic usually consists of multiple photos merged together that form a long wide angle strip. This wide strip photo would then show you a expansive view of your shot like with a Landscape it would show the full scenery around you. Wide angle photography in the other hand are different as it typically uses a wide lens that allows you to take a wide angle picture, however wide angle photos have a limit and they cannot capture the amount of detail and area that a panoramic image can achieve.
Picture obtained from online
How do I create a Panoramic Landscape?
To create a Panoramic Landscape you can either take a photo of the landscape with your camera that has a Panoramic mode or if your camera does not contain that mode then the traditional method would be to take pictures of your landscape but making sure you take it from all angles from left to right to top to bottom, making sure you leave enough room for the images to overlap. Once you take all these pictures you can insert them into a program like Photoshop or Lightroom and there should be an option to Photo merge them into a Panoramic image. Then you just adjust the images and edit them to your preference and then you should have a Panoramic Landscape.
David Hockney
David Hockney was a painter and a photographer who was well known for his work and was considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Around the early 20th century he decided to experiment with joiner photographs, these photographs consisted of usually a place or a subject that had photos taken close up instead of far away. By taking multiple close up photos (around 700+ photos) it would then allow him to merge them together to create a full photograph. The difference from a joiner photograph and a full photograph is that joiners allow you to capture details you would never spot on the first time of taking your images. So by taking multiple photos over a span of a few days close up and capturing all the little details and then merging all the photos together you end up creating a piece that not only looks unique but also contains every small detail that is easily viewable which can also make your image look more appealing compared to just a regular image taken from further away where you wouldn’t usually spot those small things.
During this photoshoot I explored Jersey’s rural farming landscape. I took my photos during sunset which heightened the dramatic lighting. The strong light of the sun reflected on the plastic sheets that covered the fields, this added light to both the top and bottom of the frame, creating more balance in the photo.
Exposure:
The strong sunlight allowed for a quick shutter speed. so the sky had a balanced exposure. This fast shutter speed meant that any areas in the foreground (not covered in plastic) were under-exposed, enhancing the dramatic outcome.
Angle / Perspective:
During the photoshoot, I tested different angles to adjust the perspective of the images. During this process, the aperture was adjusted to adjust the depth of field.
details about jersey farming
Jersey’s countryside is a place of beauty, recreation and culture. It is blessed with some of the deepest, most fertile soils, and our climate is perfect for growing most crops. Our beautiful countryside flourishes with wild flowers, and our famous Jersey cows graze on lush green fields for the majority of the year. We know that dairy farming in Jersey has a positive impact on the environment and countryside. And the dairy industry in Jersey is committed to adopting good environmental practice in its operational and capital investment decisions and to operate at the highest levels of efficiency. The total area of land under cultivation at around 36,500 vergées this represents 56% of the island area with its 10,000 farms.
Raw Photos:
Photoshoot 1
Photoshoot 2
Selection process:
as you can see I starred my favourite images these were images I thought had a great contrast between light and darks and the angle of them was perfect.
Panoramic photography is a type of photography, using special equipment or software, that captures images with horizontally elongated fields of view. It is sometimes known as wide format photography. The term has also been applied to a photograph that is cropped to a relatively wide aspect ratio, like the familiar letterbox format in wide-screen video.
Examples
David Hockney and Joiner photos
What are Joiner photos ?
David Hockney, a seminal figure in the Pop Art movement, revolutionised visual art with his inventive technique of creating joiners. This method, which involves piecing together a mosaic of photographs to form a cohesive image, challenges and transcends traditional perspectives in both photography and painting.
Examples
David Hockney
Who is he ?
David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Examples of his photos
His most famous photo
This photo was made by 700 individual photos which where stitched together, each image captures close up detail and has been placed next to each other to create a bigger, detailed image.
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