My Landscape Ideas By Edward Bradley

Safety

When I went out to take my photos I made sure that I did not fall into the river that I was shooting. Also to protect the camera a made sure that the camera strap was around my neck at all times, so if I did drop the camera be accident it would not fall into the river. I also made sure that I caused no danger to the people around me by not taking photos when people are around me. This was also the same at the lake district because there are many rivers that I could fall into. When I was in Exeter we went to Exmouth tog et some photos of the sea so I had to be careful I didn’t fall off any of the walkways because they were quite high up.

Location/Time Of Day

Most of my photos where taken at Carding Mill Valley, But I also went to Exeter and the Lake District. When I went to Carding Mill Valley I took the photos round about 1 o’clock in the afternoon. I did this because I wasn't too bothered about getting a good shadow effect because I mainly focusing on the rivers, I did take some photos of the landscape there but I don’t think that the shadows were needed. When I went to the Lake District, I took the photos at approximately 11 am. I also made sure that the mountain range photo I wanted the sky to be gloomy so it added a dark feel to the photo. With the frame within a frame photo I went out at about 10am to get the sun in the right place. In Exeter I took the photos at about 3 o’clock, I did this because for the light direction photo I needed the light to be on an angle.

Photographer Inspiration

Mary Kay – She has done a few shutter speed photos and this made me realise how good they actually look. This also inspired me to take river photos to use different shutter speeds.

Ansel Adams – he inspired me to take a photo of a mountain range because of how many mountain range photos he has taken.

Technical

On my shutter speed photos I have put a 2 second shutter speed and an aperture of f29 so the exposure on the photos would be correct. The ISO I used for most of my photos was 100 because I didn’t want the photos to be too bright and I didn’t want them to have lots of digital noise. On the shutter speed photos, I used 100 ISO as well, because the day was quite bright, so it would of come out over exposed id I used a higher ISO.

Composition

I think some of my photos have a good composition because I think they have been framed well, also I have used good placement for the main attraction of the images on the rules of thirds lines. I have also done some leading lines photos so this attracts the eyes of the viewers. Also on my river photos I have placed the river so it goes from one side of the image to the other. So the river will go all of the way through the image.

Leading Lines

Light Direction

Mountain Range

Rivers

Shutter Speed

Frame Within a Frame

Mary Had A Little Lamb

Layers

Colour