The photographer went to Salford Quays to take photos of the urban landscape and capture textures in the water and unique buildings. They took around 35-40 photos and also used some previous photos. When editing, they used techniques like depth of field, rule of thirds, changing hue and saturation to make subjects stand out more, and adjusting brightness and contrast. For future shoots they want to be more prepared with a clear aim and plan to use camera techniques like changing shutter speed.
2. 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.
3. Description of shoot
For 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.
6. Final Images
These 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.
7. 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 .
8. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
