PHOTO SHOOT REVIEWKEN ISHII

Unit57: Photography and Photographic PracticeTask 3 Selection of final images & review

Aim of Shoot

The media group took a trip to Salford Quays to capture images of the surrounding of Salford Quays. With the images I have captured, I am going to create a poster for Salford Quays.

I would be taking images of the different buildings around Salford Quays using the rules of photography which are Symmetry, Rule of Third, Framing, Leading Lines, Balancing Elements, Depth of Field and Patterns.

Description of shoot

The shoot took place at Salford Quays. I had planned to take different architecture of the building around Salford Quays. I used a manual setting on my camera to get the images I would of used for my poster experimenting with changing shutter speed, Aperture and ISO.

The shoot went well as I had various images of different building, bridges and hidden places in Salford Quays that not many people know about. I had taken plenty of images as I had a camera to myself which resulted in many images to choose from when it come to editing.

Final ImagesI chose the image of the “Big Red” bridge as one of my final images. This is because how the blue triangle arches were symmetrical and as I used a high speed shutter I managed to capture someone throwing stones in the canal.

In this image I have used leading lines on the bridge.

Editing Effects The first thing I did when I started editing the

original image was the use of the RGB colour curves to change the level of each colour with the result having a blue tint.

Final Images

When I had edited my final images they were as I had expected them to be. I used selective coluring and adding a soft focus effect for the top image. I really liked this image as the different colours create a similar result of balancing elements. I also changed the colour of the water to a more blue colour.

Capture Log

Setting – Manual Aperture – 4.7 ISO – 100 White Balance - Auto

Rejected Images

After looking through the images I have captured, there was a few that I didn’t were suitable for a poster.

I have inserted images of the pictures I didn’t like as some didn’t stick to any of the rules, the white balance wasn’t quite right and some are out of focus.

What went well

I think that my shoot went well overall as I had taken a reasonable amount of images to pick from. But if I did the shoot again, I would of like a tripod instead of using things to rest my camera on. But for my poster, I had a good selection to pick from.