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Unit 57: Photography and Photographic Practice Selection of final images & review (P4, M4, D4) Image Numbers 1-10 Image 1.

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Unit 57: Photography and Photographic Practice

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

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Theme or focus of image & reasons for choiceImage 1. This photo is one of my favourites that I took during this shoot at Salford Quays. It was also one of the first. It mainly features the bronze Quay West building and the Salford Quays Millennium Footbridge; otherwise known as the Salford Quays Lift Bridge. These two features at Salford quays are 2 of the most symbolic. Especially the bridge. It is the main bridge around that area and has been there since the year 2000, that’s why it’s called millennium bridge. The bridge goes over the Manchester Ship Canal and links Media City and Salford Quays together. It is a massive part of Salford Quays so I just had to include it in my shoot. I chose this image because I love the overall composition of it. I love how it’s symmetrical. I centred the shot as well as I could. And I’m proud of it. I stood on the bridge whilst taking this image so therefore could get it right easier. And the other thing I really like about it is the colouring of the building. Obviously I have edited it but because it is such a lovely colour naturally it looks great when enhanced.

Image 2. Image 2 is taken in the Media City grounds. Near all of the main BBC buildings. They have a little garden like area which is beautiful with all of the trees and structures. As we did our shoot in Autumn, the leaves were all discolouring and falling from the trees. Thus made the colours I the image more interesting. There are so many different shades of colours within the image, I like it. That’s why I enhanced them in Photoshop. I also don’t feel as though it is hard to see that it is promoting the BBC (Media City) because I made sure you could see the BBC logo on the building. I like with this image how it is such a busy picture with all the different colours and

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everything within the frame. That’s why I think the colouring suits the image.

Image 3. This image is one of the more different ones compared to the rest as it is black and white. There are a few different things within this image which you could say are the main features. For example the ITV Coronation Street Studio takes up the majority of the image and probably grabs your attention more than anything. As I haven’t featured a lot of this side of Salford Quays in my shoot I thought I’d make his image different. And I did actually capture this photo with a bird flying which made it better. It also features one of the other bridges at the quays. This one is newer and is the first one that you come to when pulling into the quay in a boat. This photo may not be too inviting but I wanted to change it up a little.

Image 4. Image 4 is of the Imperial War Museum. One of the nicest and unique buildings that I have ever seen. So I thought it would make the perfect picture! As I personally really like and enjoy the Museum I thought it was only right to include it in my shoot. Plus the Imperial War Museum is one of the most significant buildings at Salford Quays because of its unique design and individuality. There isn’t anything which symbolises this image as being around Media City / Salford Quays. But most people would probably know about it because it’s significant in Manchester.

Image 5. This image features the same building as picture 1. It is the Bronze Quay West building. I just think this building is really cool. The colour of it and style is just amazing. I haven’t seen anything like it. Plus I liked the fact of having the image perfectly central so it almost looks mirrored. And because the building is shinny it has reflections which I thought was effective.

Image 6. This next image is taken in the same area as Picture 2. In the prime of the Media City gardens. It features the Orange Tower building (with the diamond pattern) and one of the BBC buildings. The one thing I really liked about this image is the purple bullet like towers. I really love the colour of them; they’re like a metallic purple colour. So I enhanced the colour so you could see it more. They just add that little more colour to an image. And it makes the overall shot more unique rather than it just featuring buildings. And once again I tried to include the BBC logo as best as I could. You can see it within this image, this way you know more of the concept of the images and shoot.

Image 7. This is the only image I chosen which just features one specific thing. It doesn’t have any buildings in it. It is just the top of the swinging foot bridge which connects Media City to Trafford Wharf. Again like every other building and structure at Salford Quays it is a unique and has a cool design. This is the peak of the bridge all the long rope like polls are basically holding up the structure. So it is a massive part of the design and it makes it what it is. So I had to capture it. Also because the sky was so angry looking behind it added to it creating a silhouette type of feel to the image.

Image 8. This image is similar to image 2 in the way it features nature and the BBC buildings. Like I said in the description of Image 2 I wanted to capture the season and by getting the autumn trees in the images it makes it better and more meaningful. It was taken in the Media City gardens and has a clear focus on the BBC logo on the building behind the branches. It also features the Bullet like tower like in image 6; I have mentioned that I really like the look of these in pictures.

Image 9. This image is a wide shot featuring more or less the majority of the Media

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City area. It features a few of the main buildings which make up the landscape of Salford Quays. It was taken from the other side of media city near the Imperial War Museum. I thought I would include this image in my final 10 because it was different from the majority of the other images I chose to use. It captured the moment completely and just emphasises on the buildings and surroundings.

Image 10. Image 10 is the last one I chose and similar to image 9 it is a landscape but more featuring the water that land. It mainly features the Millennium Foot Bridge going over the water and the back of the Lowry Theatre. You can also vaguely see the Quay West Building. It does capture quite a distance as you can see buildings from right across the Canal That is one of the main reasons I really like this image. And I also think it has quite an equal balance between sky and water.

Techniques usedImage 1. There was a lot of initial thought that went in to the composition of this image. I knew that I had to get it perfectly central because if not it wouldn’t of looked anywhere on the scale I’d wanted it to. I didn’t use a tri pod or any other form of stabilisation, it was all freehand. I was stood around normal height and used the view finder to capture the image and not the screen. I knew that I wanted the main focus to be the bridge but at the same time the building in the back ground. I knew instantly I wanted to take an image like this because of the symmetry. The bridge on either side is the same and so is the building so it would have almost looked reflective. Another thing which made this picture work even more is the fact there isn’t much going on in the sky either. If it was a sunny day with clouds then it wouldn’t have given off the same feel as this does. In order to know that I got this picture right I did later use the rule of thirds grid when editing. Just to make sure everything worked best the way it was originally positioned.

Image 2. This picture is very much different compared to Picture 1 in the way that it doesn’t really have one or two main features. There are a number of things going on within the image which catch your eye. Definitely with this one I considered the depth. If you notice I took the image near a tree so caught some wrinkled old leaves extremely close up but had them out of focus so that the background was in sharp focus. I used manual focus in order to get this correct. I really wanted to emphasise on the season and the time of year. And by catching the trees and all the colours in helped define when this picture was originally taken. Again no stabilisers were used; it was free hand through the view finder. One thing I wanted to make sure you could see within this image was the BBC logo on the front of one of the buildings. As the shoot was ideally to promote Media City and Salford Quays in the first place. It was important to make sure I included the logos whenever I possibly could.

Image 3. For this image I had the camera securely propped up onto the safety barrier. Mainly so I didn’t get too much of the pathway in it and more of the water. If I’d have stood on the pathway and pointed my camera in that same direction it wouldn’t of looked effective because you would have seen too much of the pathway. Also the timing of this image was important to capture the bird in the centre frame. Again the rule of thirds grid came in handy for this image to make sure the image didn’t include too much. There is a nice balance between water, land and sky in this image and I think it works really well.

Image 4. This picture mainly features the Imperial War Museum. That was the whole

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point of the image was to for it to be just the main focus. As you can see I didn’t include the whole of the building in this image just the most eye catching and best looking part. So even though I didn’t capture the whole of the building in the frame I still think it looked effective. I had the exposure and ISO the same as my other photos for this image so the sky didn’t change the way I wanted the picture to be. Originally the sky way white but still quite bright so if I’d of messed with the exposure too much it may have messed with the overall composition of my image.

Image 5. Similar to photo 1 I wanted to almost make this image look reflective but without actually making it mirrored. Because the building is symmetrical it works really well. I had to make sure I got it perfectly central also. Mise en scene wise I did try and get it perfectly positioned in the frame. I didn’t use any form of guide in doing this I just used my view finder on my camera the best I could to get it central. After editing this photo it made it look quite grainy but originally my ISO wasn’t very high so it wasn’t actually grainy before editing.

Image 6. In order to capture this photo correctly I had to point the camera up and squat a little. I wanted the majority of the buildings in frame and some sky. I had my shutter speed fast whilst taking this image so the sky didn’t overpower the rest of the image. If it was any slower the light exposure would’ve been way too high and the white balance very out of proportion. And again similar to photo 3 of the Imperial War Museum I didn’t want the whole of the buildings to be in the shot. Even though I could have been able to fit them in. It just looks better when there is more variety and main focal points in an image.

Image 7. This is the image which is much different to the rest of the pictures I took that day. It doesn’t actually feature any buildings. Another thing which makes it not similar to the rest is the fact the sky obviously over powers this image. Originally the photo was all white and looked really drab. The exposure shutter speed and ISO was originally average for this image, because the sky and bridge were such similar in colour it was hard to get the colour correct for both of them before editing.

Image 8. This picture is very similar to picture 2 composition wise. It is taken in a similar area and features the same building. I just got a little closer when taking this picture. And I used a similar technique where I stood with objects obviously in the way of the frame. But the BBC logo on the building is still in clear site. So it has a varied focal length this image because there are a couple of things you could focus on at different distances. Also the colouring was taken very seriously into consideration as I wanted the autumn colours to look vibrant.

Image 9. This image is a little different in the way that it is an extremely long distance and wide shot. Taken from the opposite side of the Quays. I kind of just wanted to get some of the main buildings into one frame. In order to do this I had to get quite far back. I had the shutter speed a little slower than usual just to see if it would capture a little more of the image but it let a little too much light it. This then made the sky over power the image a little.

Image 10. The last Image is a similar overall shot to photo 9 in the way that it is quite a distant shot. However unlike photo 9 I did take the rule of thirds grid into consideration in this image. I wanted the balance between the water and sky to look right. As it is an extreme wide and long distance shot I needed to get it right. I made sure when taking the image that I had everything in the frame I wanted and tried to get it in the

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view finder how I wanted it. Strengths and Suggested ImprovementsImage 1. In this image I would definitely say that the overall composition of the image is a strong. However when I realised I wanted to remove the people from it I started to dread not being able to get it to look right. Even though I fell I did an okay job at getting rid of the people I do feel I could improve on it. If I’d of maybe had spent a little more time on It I think I would of got it to look a little better! Another Strength is the colouring, I absolutely love the colour of the Quay West building in the background of the image.

Image 2. In this image I also really like the colouring. That’s the reason I made the colours more vibrant in the first place. It shows of the season. It almost says that Salford Quays is a beautiful place all year round. Because autumn to me seems a bit of a messy season because everything is dying and there is just leaves and bald trees everywhere you go. And yet Media City still looks beautiful. I wanted this image to show that. I Maybe could have improved on getting more of the buildings in shot. As well as having the nature in it, it would look good if I had of incorporated more of the structural side of things as well.

Image 3. Strengths of image 3 would be the composition. I was really happy when I captured the bird in the shot. It was a really nice simple shot. And I would say that it definitely serves its purpose as promoting Salford quays. Also the fact there is no people in the shot; I really prefer it in shots like this when there is no one in them. It looks better and more professional. However there were some aspects of editing I could probably have improved on. For example the second bird the one I edited in could have been done better than it was. And as it is a black and white image I feel it is quite dark. Maybe I should have enhanced it a little more.

Image 4. Composition wise I love this image. It is simple yet effective. However I definitely feel the editing could’ve been improved. I don’t like the image I imported to the background. It just doesn’t look right. If I had of spent more time on it I probably could have got it better. Maybe I wouldn’t import the picture in and just edit the original sky on the image.

Image 5. With image 5 I really like the composition and some of the way I edited it. I love how the image is perfectly centre frame. This is what I wanted I was aiming for it to be like this. There is some parts however where the sky has been edited which could’ve been improved. Like on the left had side I accidently rubbed away a section of the building and couldn’t get it back so had to try and structure it again using different tools. I managed to do it but with more time definitely could improve.

Image 6. This image could generally have had more editing in general. It was just such a simple edit that I didn’t spend too long on editing it. If I could improve I would enhance the colouring and levels more. Make the buildings more appealing and vibrant. It would generally make the image more fun to look at and better. But strength wise I do really like the sky. As it is the original image I am proud of the editing I did on it to make it look more inviting.

Image 7. There were a few mistakes in this image which I didn’t see until I saw the picture bigger. Where I have edited the buildings out towards the bottom of the image you can see where I have cloned. It has made a really faint line which is cloned from the structure on the bridge. If I could change anything it would be that. I would make sure everything is gone from the image which I didn’t want being there.

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But then I do like this image because it is different from the rest of the images. For starters it doesn’t have any colour to it it’s just mainly shades and bursts of light. And the fact it doesn’t just include buildings. As the point of the shoot was to promote Salford Quays I feel that the bridges are a huge significance to the landscape. Most people would just take pictures of the buildings because they’re bigger and are more significant to people. But to me the bridges are just as important. With such unique designs as well I don’t feel you could go wrong when using them in your work.

Image 8. Overall this image could have had some more editing done to it to improve it. But I mentioned above that the image was so busy it was hard to edit certain parts of it. It would’ve looked better if the overall colour of the image was different. Like if the sky looked a bit more inviting and nicer it would definitely add to the picture. But I do feel that the colouring of the leaves is effective with how vibrant they are.

Image 9. When considering the final 10 images I chosen for my editing I do feel this is my least favourite. There just could’ve been so much done to the image. Like the composition of the image could’ve been better. And I didn’t like how over exposed the image was originally. It killed the colour from the image. And even when edited I am still not a massive fan of the colouring in the image. One thing I do like about the image though is the concept of it. It is a wide angle and was meant to include a lot of the building work. Unlike some of the other images including buildings this one shows more of the buildings themselves. Because it is further away you can see more landscape wise.

Image 10. I really like this image. The more I look at it the more I actually like it. I love the fact it has a really equal balance between sky, land and water. You instantly know it is Salford quays from its widely known millennium bridge. Parts of the image probably could’ve been improved more. Like the buildings if I would have specifically changed the colouring of the buildings. Especially the quay west one because the colour is just amazing! It would’ve added more to the image. Maybe the same with the bridge. The whole colouring on the image could’ve been improved but not all in one. If I could I probably would select different parts of the image and do it section by section. This would have been better.

Editing detailsImage 1. With image 1 I did enhance the colouring. I wanted the bronze Quay West building to look really vibrant but without making the rest of the image un realistic. So I enhanced the vibrancy and ever so slightly the saturation on the building to allow the colour to be how I wanted it. There were also people within the frame and I knew that it would’ve looked its best if I edited them out. So I used the cloning tool on Photoshop and got rid of them. It definitely looks more professional without people in it.

Image 2. In image 2 I think you can obviously see some of the changes. Like for example I enhanced the colouring in the image. I have mentioned when taking about the concept of the image and techniques that I wanted to define this image as being taken around the Autumn season. By enhancing the main colouring in the image I feel as though it gives you this indication. Also I feel it works really well because it varies out the different colours. I also slightly changed the leaves around the BBC logo on the building. There were leaves in the way so I used the cloning tool and went over them with the white cloned from the actual original sign on the

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building. One thing I like about this image is when I changed the colouring it made the sky look a little better. It gave it a blue tint rather than it just looking all white and drab!

Image 3. I actually edited a lot of things within this image. There were a lot of things within the frame which I didn’t want being there as it just made it look slightly messy. For example the wall on the left hand side right by the water was really dirty. So I cloned the clean parts and placed them over the dirty parts. There was a bright yellow buoy in the water. It looked ridiculous so cloned the water and got rid of that. There were a few people also, one was on the bridge and there was a couple of people towards the right had side of the image. I wanted it to look as professional as possible so edited them out. On the right hand side of the image there were massive bright red containers and temporary fences. They annoyed me because they looked messy so I edited the majority out but when I re-scaled the image it cut a little bit of it out. Then obviously there are the birds in the middle. One of the birds was originally in the image when I captured it. The one on the left I edited in. After touching up the image I added the Black and white effect to it. I felt I wanted to do this because all my other images had colour and I wanted to change it up a little.

Image 4. To help improve the overall look of this image I added a separate image of a sky. I imported it in on a different Layer then rubbed it away from where I didn’t want it. It looked really dull and drab when it was just white and cloudy. In order to make it look more realistic I had to darken the higher part of the building. So I sectioned it and just lowered the exposure and edited a couple different colouring settings on it so It looked right. I also slightly changed the colouring of the lower part of the building. I tried to make that part lighter than the higher part so again it looked more realistic to fit the sky.

Image 5. On this image I added a separate image to it like on Image 4. I think this one is more effective than Image 4 though. I sectioned this one differently by manually drawing a line around the building then adding the image to hat one section. It looks more realistic and tidy. To help the image look right I added some colour correction adjustments to the building which gave it a slight blue tint. I wanted to add these changes to the building so that the reflection on the building didn’t look too much like it did before I added the sky image. However it did make it grainier and rough looking but I think it works. Originally the image was really bland and didn’t have much colour so by darkening and adding slight colour to it worked really well.

Image 6. I didn’t edit an awful lot in this image but one of the main changes I made was the sky. However I didn’t import a separate image and add it on a different layer. I in fact just sectioned the sky and played about until it looked how I wanted it. First it was quite dark so to make it more inviting I lightened it. Then when I looked at the colour balance I added a slight blue tint. So it doesn’t look fake but looks better than it did. I feel this looks effective because it is actually the original images sky just corrected. I also enhanced the colour on the bullet like towers. I mentioned when describing the image that I really like the colour of them. So I selected them individually and brightened the colour so you could catch the different shades better. It definitely adds more variance to the image and catches your eye. I also cropped this image ever so slightly. There was a messy looking red container in the bottom right hand side corner. I edited the majority of it out but thought that I wasn’t going to lose anything just by trimming the image slightly. So when doing this I used the rule of thirds grid to get it right. Originally the image was quite dark so by adding

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slight adjustments to the exposure and levels really helped make it that little bit more lighter.

Image 7. Originally this image had little bits of buildings in it and it looked strange. So I knew they needed to go. So I used the clone tool to get rid of the little bits. This then made image 7 much different when compared to the others. It only featured the cool and unique structure of one of the foot bridges. I love this image because I wanted the sky to look more effective I added different effects to it to look better. As I made the sky brighter it then silhouetted the bridge. Before editing the sky looked really boring, but after enhancing the levels it made the sky break through almost. The sky still looks quite angry but it looks better this way.

Image 8. This photo didn’t really require an awful lot of editing. It was hard to specify on one section of the image as it is so busy. I obviously enhanced the colours so the orange on the leaves looked really vibrant. This then affected the whole of the image in a good way. Again similar to photo 2 I wanted to make sure the BBC logo could be seen clearly so I made sure of that.

Image 9. Again similar to image 8 this one didn’t have much edited done. I had to edit out a couple of things within the image which looked miss placed like a couple of things on the top of one of the buildings. And I lowered the exposure as it was a little over exposed originally. Because it’s such a long distance shot and the shutter speed was a bit slower than on some of the other images it brought in a little too much light. After editing though it definitely looked better. You could see a little more in the image.

Image 10. When looking at image 10 you wouldn’t think there was much editing done like on image 3 but I actually got rid of quite a lot in the image which didn’t look right. Like for example a little barge type boat had gone through the Quay and you could see it in the water in the distance. I then cloned the water to discard of it. I also cleaned the wall next to the water like I did on image 3. It just looked untidy and messy so I again used the cloning tool and sorted it out. This also meant I had to slightly change the water as well. And similar to image 7 I edited the tone of the sky. I selected it and adjusted it so it made the image something a little more. This obviously then effected the whole image so I added colour changing effects to the rest of the image so it all matched!

Capture LogSetting Shutter Speed ISO ApertureImage 1. Manual

Image 2. Manual

Image 3. Manual

Image 4. Manual

Image 5. Manual

Image 1. 1/640

Image 2. 1/320

Image 3. 1/400

Image 4. 1/640

Image 5. 1/500

Image 1. 800

Image 2. 800

Image 3. 800

Image 4. 800

Image 5. 800

Image 1. F/9

Image 2. F/9

Image 3. F/9

Image 4. F/9

Image 5. F/9

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Image 6. Manual

Image 7. Manual

Image 8. Manual

Image 9. Manual

Image 10. Manual

Image 6. 1/640

Image 7. 1/500

Image 8. 1/320

Image 9. 1/320

Image 10. 1/640

Image 6. 800

Image 7. 800

Image 8. 800

Image 9. 800

Image 10. 800

Image 6. F/9

Image 7. F/9

Image 8. F/9

Image 9. F/9

Image 10. F/9