Unit 57: Photography and Photographic Practice

Photo Shoot Review

By Ashleigh Darlington

Aim of shoot:I needed ten images to edit and then make my final image, so I decided to try and take as many pictures as I could so that I had a lot of images I could choose from.

Before doing this shoot I planned to take more pictures in e dark as I waned los of coloured lights in my photographs and reflections in water, so all my images are mainly water based due to this and I wanted quite colourful images so that they was bright and stood out. The reason I decided these were the type of images I wanted is because when I was doing my research and looking at other landscape photographers these kind of images were the ones that I was attracted to the most.

Description of shoot:

I took 76 Images altogether and I focused my images mainly around water and the reflections off the lights in them. This is why most of my images are took in the dark or of and around the water.

Final Image 1:

Editing Effects:First of all I changed the brightness and contrast of my image, I set them both to the highest they would go as I wanted the background to appear a lot darker and like be close to black, but I still wanted the colours of all the lights to stand out especially the blue coming off the bridge. After doing this I then used an effectto make the image appear more vibrant, as I wanted dark images with vibrant colours, to make it stand out. Then I used the colour balance effect, where I moved the Cyan colour and Blue to make the colour of the bridge stand out as that is what I wanted to be the main focus of the picture.

Final Image Evaluation:

Original Image

Final Image

My plan for this project was to create images that was took at night as I wanted a dark background with water reflections and lots of different coloured lights as I was going for images in the style of Andrew hackney and this is definitely what I have done with this image, the original image turned out quite dark and because of the effects I used it enhanced the colours that was there and made them appear a lot more vibrant and bright as in the original image, nothing really stood out everything was really dark, because I decided not to use a flash as it would change most of the colours. I am quite happy with my final image however there are things I would do differently if I was going to do it again, I would keep the sky very black like how it was originally and then just change everything else and maybe try taking it on a different angle more in front rather than the side, I did try to rotate it during the editing process but wasn’t happy with the result so decided to keep it how it already was.

Final Image 2:

Final Image Evaluation:

Original Image

Final Image

I was happy with the picture that I took however I just wanted it to be a lot brighter, mainly the water as I waned hat to be a deep blue colour, so I just changed brightness and contrast and then colour balance and adding a blue effect to the picture. With bright lights coming off the sun in the corner hat gave of a pink, red and yellow glowing reflection in the water that I think added to the effect with some of the buildings surrounding it.I planned to take more images at night so that I could et lights of bridges and buildings however I also liked it in the daylight when the sun was shining like in this photograph.I am really happy with my image and there would be nothing I would change I don’t think.

Final Image 3:

Final Image Evaluation:

Original Image

Final Image

I was already happy with my original image which is why I didn’t really change much when it came to editing, it was just that there was something in the right corner that I decided to crop out and then I just changed the brightness and contrast to make the purple off the bridge and the lights stand out a bit more than they had in the original photograph. I found that there wasn’t much I had to do with this image and I really like what I have come out with. However despite me being very happy with this shot it has made me realise that when I go out again taking photographs I will need to start taking more than one shot of one thing like I will have to take a lot of shots of one particular thing to try and ensure that I will have an image that I cant fault.

Final Image 4:

Final Image Evaluation:

Final Image

Original Image

I wasn’t very happy with my image at first however I wanted one with more of the buildings and streets in rather then them all being around just water so I tried editing a couple of other pictures that I had took and I found that when I changed the image and put them in black and white it made the photograph appear a lot more professional. So I made the photo black and white and changed brightness and contrast and the lightness. However if I was to do this again I would take more time to take more pictures like this based more on just buildings or streets and things to give more of a variety with my images.

Final Image 5:

Final Image Evaluation:

Original Image

Final Image

I was very happy with this image and the angle it was on and the objects and everything that were captured in the photograph. So I just wanted to edit it a little, just to enhance the colours of the sky, street light and water. In the original image the water looked quite dark which gave the overall image quite a dull look , where as now after editing I think the photograph looks very bight and inviting.

Final Image: 6

Editing Effects:First of all I changed the brightness and contrast of my image making it more brighter but using the contrast to make certain areas of the background appear darker. I then used the Hue Saturation to lighten my image and give it a light blue effect. Then used variations where I decided I wanted to pick the images that featured the Cyan colour in it and ticked highlights as what I wanted and then all these effects went towards creating my final image. After I used that I then decided to just use the auto tone, contrast and colour this is because I just wanted to just change it slightly then I was happy with what I created.

Final Image Evaluation:

Original Image

Final Image

Before I started the project I had decided that I was going to create images mainly based around water with quite a lot of light and focusing mainly around one colour in particular and in nearly all of my images I had decided that, that particular colour would be Blue better known on Photoshop as Cyan this is a very light blue that is quite vibrant anyway but I enhanced the colour as I wanted very vibrant images.To get my final image I mainly just focused on changing the colour of the over all image and I changed the brightness and the contrast and the vibrance controls. I am quite pleased with my final image, I think it would be better though if I changed the colour of the sky on its own so that you could still get the clouds and things in rather than it just being a blur at the top of the image as that is how it is now that I have edited it altogether. So that is the one thing I would change if I was to do it again.