Unit 57: Photography and Photographic Practice

Selection of final images & review (P4, M4, D4)

Image No: 1- 5 Landscape

Theme or focus of image & reasons for choiceThe focus for my landscape photos was to show where people can go and to reflect Manchester celebrating Christmas in a positive way. For majority of my photos I have either gone for a black and white effect or I have added a gold tint. I have done this effect to three of my photos to try and make Manchester look more traditional and make it look like a place where we try to make

everywhere look in the festive spirit. The second of my five landscape photos hasn’t had any drastic colour change involved, I have made this decision because I thought the building looked festive enough so I just used colour correction and enhanced the reds and greens in the photograph.Techniques usedI don’t really think I have stuck to the techniques because I didn’t really know how to incorporate the rule of thirds and depth of field into my photographs. When I asked people to fill out a survey based on my questionnaire I asked whether they think I have used rule of thirds or depth of field on my photos and 57% of answers said that they think I have and 43% of answers said that they think I haven’t. Strengths & suggested improvementsWhen I was taking my landscape photos I had some difficulties with the settings on my camera as a result of this the images came out looking out of focus or very bright. I think I could avoid this problem next time if I played around with the settings abit more. On my questionnaire I asked what people think I could improve and some of responses were regarding colour correction because I have used dark colours I think it doesn’t show Manchester in a positive light. When I asked the people from my questionnaire if they think my photos do show Manchester in a positive light 88% said that it does and 12% said it didn’t. I think looking at these responses I have achieved what I set out and done.Editing detailsFor majority of my photos I used a black and white feel to them because I feel like it adds a more traditional and artistic vibe to the photograph. When I asked the people who did my survey which they think is the better image the two most popular ones were black and white. I feel like if I did my landscape shoot again I would edit all my photos to be black and white, when I was originally editing my photos I didn’t put them all in black and white because I thought it would be too dark. During my editing period I used the editing techniques called curves and threshold. Capture LogShutter Speed

ISO Aperture

Image 1 – 1/200

Image 1 - 200

Image 1 – f/4

Image 2 - 1/20

Image 2 – 200

Image 2 – f/4.8

Image 3 – 1/6 Image 3 – 200

Image 3 – f/5.3

Image 4 – 1/25

Image 4 – 200

Image 4 – f/5

Image 5 – 1/25

Image 5 – 200

Image 5 – f/5