Photo Shoot Review

Unit 57: Photography and Photographic

Practice

Task 4 Selection of final images & review

Aim of Shoot

For this shoot I went to Salford quays to take pictures of the urban landscape around the area, Salford quays was a good place to go to take my images because I wanted to capture all the different textures of the urban landscape, for example the water and reflections from the buildings around in it. Also all the interesting buildings around Salford Quays, I find them more unique than the normal straight up, straight down buildings. I produced around 35-40 pictures of the things around Salford quays and also used some of my own that I had taken previously at different locations.

Description of shootFor this shoot I took a FinePix S5800 S800 Digital Camera to take the pictures with, I didn’t use a tripod as I prefer working without one. When I originally went out for the shoot I wanted to get pictures of the reflections of building in the water but when I actually went for the shoot I ended up taking more pictures of the buildings and bridges around rather than the reflections. I think that the shoot went well because I managed to get a good number of images for me to go through and pick the ones that I wanted to edit. I used a variety of settings on my camera, one of them being Macro and I also changed the shutter speed to get this image of the lights on one of the bridges.

Contact Sheet

Final Images

Paste the final images here and discuss their strengths / weaknesses e.g. say why you liked them / why you chose them

Mention focus, depth of field, rule of thirds, composition,

Final ImagesThese and the images on the previous slide are some of the images that I edited, I chose to edit these pictures because I thought that these were the ones that showed the most technique. For these images I used depth of field and rule of thirds. For one of the images I used shutter speed, this effects the amount of time that light is allowed to reach the camera sensor. With all these images I thought about the composition, the alignment of the things in the pictures is done well and I used the rule of thirds in some of them. Another techniques that I used was macro, a setting on the camera that enables you to take close up pictures without losing any of the detail from the subject.

Editing effects

First I changed the Hue and Saturation of the image, Hue referring to the tone of the colours in the image and Saturation the intensity of a selected colour and how much grey the colour contains. This made the leaves on the trees slightly more red while still keeping the greens visible. It also made the lily pads stand out more on the water as they were also given a red tinge. Here the reflection in the water did start to stand out a little more. After I had changed the Hue and Saturation of the image, I changed the brightness slightly and the contrast. This is what made the reflection stand out more on the water, it also made the trees and bushes more edgy and eye catching. Changing the contrast of the image made each thing in the picture stand out .

Editing effects

The first thing I did to the picture was change the brightness and contrast, I did this to make the lights clearer and to make them stand out more. I then changed the colour balance, I raised the green and blues in the images, this made the lights stand out even more. The last thing I did was to change the brightness slightly, to make the light stand out more.

Capture log

Setting - Shutter Speed – 1/300Aperture – 3.6 (max)ISO – IOS-200

Setting - Shutter Speed –1/180 Aperture – 3.6 (max)ISO – ISO-200

Setting - Shutter Speed –1/250 Aperture –2.97 (max)ISO – ISO-80

Capture log

Setting - Shutter Speed – 1/170Aperture – 3.6 (max)ISO – ISO-800

Setting - Shutter Speed – 1/75Aperture – 3.6 (max)ISO – ISO-400

Setting - Shutter Speed – 1/45Aperture – 3.6 (max)ISO – ISO-800

Capture log

Setting - Shutter Speed – 1/220 Aperture – 3.6 (max)ISO – ISO-64

Setting - Shutter Speed – 1/450 Aperture – 3.6 (max)ISO – ISO-64

Setting - Shutter Speed – 4 sec Aperture – 3.6 (max)ISO – ISO-100

Rejected Images

This is one the images that I took at a park(can’t remember the name) I rejected this images because although I like the contrast in colours between the purple flower and the rusty coloured leaves in the background I think that I could of done this better if I had a steadier hand and used a macro setting which I don’t think I did in this image.

This is another image that I rejected, this one is from my Salford quays shoot. I rejected this image because I didn’t achieve what I anted to when I took it. This on one of the first attempts I made when changing the shutter speed.

Aims for next project

From this shoot I have learned that it is better to always have a plan of what you want to take pictures of, you need an aim that will help you with the outcome. Next time I do a shoot I will make sure I know what I want to show in my images and what I want to take pictures of, this will save time and will mean that I can get more images. I will put more thought into what techniques I can use before I go out and i will also look into the camera settings more and get more use out of them. I could take a tripod out with me to try and get straighter steadier pictures.