Landscape Work Diary

How I Made These Images
To make these images I traveled all around Harlow trying to find interesting locations to shoot. I used aperture priority with a high F/stop so that all of the image was in focus. The camera then set the other settings automatically. For this subject matter I wanted a large range of images to vary the landscapes. I believe that I have successfully captured a range if landscapes and by editing them I also think that this is my favourite subject matter so far.

Critical Evaluation
This image is a good image and I don't really have any complaints about it. However, it is very bland and boring. The colours are muted and there isn't any interesting subject within the image. Next time I take images like this I will be sure to include a subject such as a person or an animal.





Progress
All of these images were edited using a range of photoshop tools and techniques.

I started by adjusting the saturation of the colours within the image so that they are more saturated and vibrant. After this I used the curves tool to adjust the lighting. I decided to go with a darker lighting so that the focus of the image is on the tall red building. By adjusting the lighting I was able to darken the bottom of the frame enough so that the subjects within the frame below were blocked out allowing for a focus on the red building.

This next image I felt lost quality after editing.

When editing the image I enchanted the lighting so that the image was brighter. However, I didm't like the outcome. I like the original image better for many reasons. The original image was darker and had many shadows which added a sense of mystery to the image. The edited eliminated the darkness in the street which took the mystery element away.

This next image was very simple to edit. I simply used the saturation tool to increase the saturation of the greens within the image. This gave the image more life and vibrancy. I then further brightened the image using the curves tool. This gave the same effect as increasing the saturation within the image. The image now has more life and can catch the audience's eye easier.

This next image is anther one of my favourites. The contrast between man-made buildings and nature are now perfectly contrasted with the increased saturation of the grass and also the whitening out of the sky. By making the sky's colour muted, I have made the focus be purely on the horse and the buildings. This allows for the deeper meaning to be the priority within the image. By saturating the grass, I made it more vibrant and outstanding. This enhances the landscape itself and makes it more interesting to look as as there are a range of different green shades.

I decided to turn the last image black and white so that the image can successfully take the audience through the journey down the two paths without distraction. Despite this positive aspect, I feel that the life of the image has been taken away because there is no colour within the image. From doing this I know that if I take any landscape images in the future, I shall not turn them black and white. Instead I will keep the colours and maybe brighten them if needed.

Landscape Contact Sheet

Landcape Contact Sheet

Landscape Straight Images

Landscape Straight Images
As landscape is a very broad phrase, anything could be captured whilst photographing for the subject matter of landscape. Therefore, there is no need to create a spider diagram because anything can be captured.

Top 5 Images
This first image for landscape is one of my favourite images that I've taken for the Landscape subject matter. This image is of a town landscape that features some wildlife and also man-made construction. The sky is the most dominant feature within this image. The rule of thirds also features within this image twice. The red brick building is featured within the far right of the image and also the floor is framed within the bottom third of the image.


The next image was taken at night outside of college. I decided to black out my house so that there would be no light emitting into the frame from behind me as I wanted this image to be a dark as possible. The street lamps were the only light source that I wanted in the image however there were some lights emitting from a window. Despite this, I still really like the image.


This next image was taken mid-day in a forest. I decided to feature the rule of thirds within this image also. The photographer within frame is photographing the landscape but i am photographing both her and the landscape she is photographing. There is also a connoted frame within this image as the photographer's camera counts as a frame.



This next image is one of my favourites also. The contrast between man-made buildings and nature creates an effect on the audience - Especially when combined with the horse in centre of frame. There are almost depressing connotations within this image as it seems that the horse is outcast from society with the busy town centre in the background.



This next image is my least favourite of the 5 but I included it into my top 5 because it allows for all of my top 5 images to be very different from each other. This image is of a crossroad between two paths. By the image including diagonal lines, the image takes the audience on a journey and also gives them a wide verity of places to look within the image.

Landscape Image Bank

Landscape Image Bank

Landscape Definition

Landscape Definition
Landscape photography shows spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times microscopic. Landscape photographs typically capture the presence of nature but can also focus on man-made features or disturbances of landscapes.

Landscape images can vary between black and white and brightly coloured images. They can also vary in location as literally anywhere could be photographed (Given that certain areas are more interesting than others)







Ansel Adams - http://anseladams.com/about-ansel-adams/ansel-adams-biography/
"Ansel Adams, photographer and environmentalist, was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman, and Olive Bray. The grandson of a wealthy timber baron, Adams grew up in a house set amid the sand dunes of the Golden Gate. When Adams was only four, an aftershock of the great earthquake and fire of 1906 threw him to the ground and badly broke his nose, distinctly marking him for life. A year later the family fortune collapsed in the financial panic of 1907, and Adams’s father spent the rest of his life doggedly but fruitlessly attempting to recoup. An only child, Adams was born when his mother was nearly forty. His relatively elderly parents, affluent family history, and the live-in presence of his mother’s maiden sister and aged father all combined to create an environment that was decidedly Victorian and both socially and emotionally conservative. Adams’s mother spent much of her time brooding and fretting over her husband’s inability to restore the Adams fortune, leaving an ambivalent imprint on her son. Charles Adams, on the other hand, deeply and patiently influenced, encouraged, and supported his son."

Group f/64 was a group of seven 20th-century San Francisco photographers who shared a common photographic style characterised by sharp-focused and carefully framed images seen through a particularly Western viewpoint.

The Zone System is a photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development, formulated by Ansel Adams and Fred Archer.

Pictorialists were concerned with making images about feelings and they used every kind of technique they could imagine to get the job done. Soft focus, multiple images layered on top of one another, texture screens, painting on negatives and prints — any and all of these could be used to modify the straight negative the camera produced.

Joiner Work Diary

How I made these Images
To create these images I used a range of locations and camera settings based on these locations. For the exterior locations I used aperture priority, the F stop was 5.6 and the rest of the settings were automatically set by the camera. For the studio joiner I used manual settings. These settings were: an F stop of 8, a shutter speed of 1/125 and a ISO of 200. When capturing the images, I framed the camera in a range of different positions whilst standing still and not moving for each image. This allowed me to gain a perspective within the image as the positioning of me and the way that the camera is positioned creates a 3D effect once the joiner is created.

Critical Evaluation
There are certain Joiners that I don't like so if I continue joiners in the future I will be sure to take a larger range of images. I had trouble combining certain parts of the Joiners up and therefore I will make sure to take more images when taking the images for the Joiner.

Progress
These three images are all of the Joiners that I have decided to create. The first is one of a small garden that is on college campus, the second is of a model and the third is of a decoration that is on the wall of the college.

To make these images I had to use photoshop. There were no specific alterations made to the overall images and no editing techniques were used. I used the raw images that I captured and nothing else. To make the Joiners I had to first open them all in photoshop and resize them so that they were significantly smaller than they were when first captured. I then created a larger canvas and started to put all of the images together. These are the images I came out with.

Joiner Contact Sheet

Joiner Contact Sheet

Joiners Straight Images

Joiners Straight Images
For joiners you need to select an area in your environment or an object to then photograph the entirety of the area or object. Multiple images that show different areas of your chosen subject have to be taken to then later combine them together to make a large image.
I have decided to photograph an area around college that has a pattern on it to make the image more abstract.

Images

This image is a part of a joiner of a small garden located within college campus. This image is a single part of a joiner that will later be combined with a lot of other images to create one single joiner.

Joiners Image Bank

Joiners Image Bank

Joiners Definition

Joiners
A joiner is a combination of multiple images that form together to create one large image. 

In the early 1980s, Hockney began to produce photocollages, which he called "joiners," first of Polaroid prints and later of 35mm, commercially processed color prints.

Both of these image were taken using a range of images of a place which were then combined together to create a landscape. 

COMPOSITION

Rule of Thirds
The rule of thirds is a type of composition that is used within many photographs. The framing of the image is divided into nine squares using four guide lines. Within this frame, the subject that is being photographed must be touching the points where the lines meet. Either on the left or the right side of the frame.

The absence within the image creates an intriguing effect on the audience and makes them want to look further within the image.
Golden Ratio
There's one other way to use the golden ratio to compose a photograph. Instead of using the spiral, create a grid like in the rule of thirds, but one that uses a 1:1.618 ratio, instead of dividing the frame into equal parts.

Movement Work Diary

How I Made These Images
To capture the images for movemt I used a range of different camera settings to fit the situation. The shutter speed however was usally left at 1 second to allow for a movment to take place and for the camera to pic up and capture this movement. The Subejct matter of movement was definitly the most difficult of projects so far for many reasons. One of the reasons being that the cameras we were originally provided were difficult to use in terms of adjusting the settings. However, as time progressed, It became easier to control.

Critical Evaluation
Despite the fact that this image shows a clear movement, I don't like it because of the amount of different things within the image. Also, all of the image is blurred, even though it shows movement, I don't like. I believe it looks unprofessional.






Progress

All of these images were minimally edited and simple editing tools were used.

This first image was edited simply using only the black and white conversion technique. I changed the colours to black and white and used coloured sliders to alter the brightness of certain coloured tones within the image. Using these sliders, I was able to manually edit the coloured shades to fit the subject of the image and also the connotations.

This next image was also very simply edited. The image was rotated slightly so that the landscape was more level with the frame. I then simple turned the image black and white to finish off.

This next image is one of my favourites. This was the only image that required a lot of editing to achieve within this project.

To begin I adjusted the saturation of the image so that the colours are brighter and more vibrant. I rotated the original image so that it was portrait, I then saved this image alone so that I could open the same image twice to create one single image out of two images. When I mirrored two of the same images I got a single image that looks, to me, like a door of some sort. The overall effect of the final image is quite magical.

This final image is my least favourite out of the Top 4.

As there was a gate in the frame which I didn't like, I had to try my best to crop it out whilst still keeping the light from the sun in frame. After I achieved this as best I could, I simply changed the saturation by heightening it to make the colours brighter.