Landscape Photography
Booker T Photography
Additional Landscape
My Development
These photographs were favourites of mine which I wanted to use in my final choices. However they did not work so well as part of a set.
This Footbridge was built last year purposely at the location of Nash Point, in order to film a series called Britannia.
The photograph also looked great in colour. The greens were very rich.
This photograph looks amazing in the black and white conversion. The point of focus is absolute central, which happens to hi-light the subject, being a heart shaped carving of tree graffiti. Words .........
"will you marry me" .
The reason I did not use this photograph as a final, is because when I took the image, I had a cropped setting on the camera by mistake. My camera is a full frame 24.4 mega pixel camera. The cropped setting, converted the shooting into cropped camera setting, which meant that the viewer crops in by x1.6. This also effects the megapixel quality, so the end result was the image was shot with 10.7 mega pixels. When I edited the photograph, it was evident that the sky and clouds held excessive mounts of noise.
Therefore this did not work as part of a set with final chosen images.
This was one of the first pictures I took for this module. I was waiting for my new full frame camera to be delivered, so I had borrowed my partners camera that day. I was unfamiliar with the menus of a Nikon, therefore I wanted to practise. I managed to create this image by focusing on the foreground weeds, using a large aperture to blur the coal head. I did not use this in my final images because of the portrait orientation. However, I love the image and plan to get it printed.
Big Pit, Blaenavon
The collection of images below are of a college class photo shoot taken in the middle of winter on a very gloomy overcast day. The images have all been converted into black and white to reflect the mood of the day and the sombre feel of the remains of a retired coal mine in the South Wales Valley. The contrast in the photographs are very punchy and dramatic. This collection of prints fall into the category of man-altered landscapes.
Southerndown & Ogmore
The images below were taken on another college class photo shoot trip. I successfully took some seascape photographs. I have illustrated an over editing error in the image below (right). Post editing should be kept to a minimum in traditional landscape photography.
These photographs are of a high quality, however the seascapes would have benefited from the use of a graduated filter, which I do not have. This can be added in post editing, however it is always desired to get the shot as perfect as possible in the camera first.
Seascapes are a genre of their own and not classed as a traditional landscape.
Here's an example of how NOT to use a post edit graduation filter. I have over edited the sky with a purple tint to show you how you can spoil a good photograph by getting things wrong in post editing.
