For these images, I decided to edit them all in Black and White to emulate the style of my artists and the history of the town. I increased contrast to highlight the light and shadow created by the high city walls. These images were largely successful as the touristic nature of the town pairs nicely with the sunlight, and I certainly captured some characters.

For these images, I increased warmth a little to remove the coolness of the light and allude a little to the excitement and positivity of a plane journey to your destination. I think this created some really strong outcomes that will work well as intersections for each chapter.

When I took these images, the weather was largely grey and cloudy so I wanted to ensure that this did not make them boring. Therefore I used the Black and White tool in a lot of them, similar to the style of my artists who have photographed the city fairly widely. In the post-rain sky, there were a lot of blues and purples and I wanted to make sure these were highlighted, and for images taken by night, I wanted to highlight the skyline and its tiny distant lights. I am happy with how this turned out but I do think the weather could have been better at the time.

The images I have chosen from this shoot are some of my favourites. I was very lucky to get a majority of sunlight for my trip and so the scenes are full of light and blue skies, which is very important in image making in order to capture colours. I therefore wanted to focus on the colours in the city, with the vibrance tool, instead of the traditionally black and white street photography of New York. I think, especially with the Autumnal colours and crisp blue skies, that this has been effective and I am happy with the results.

There were very few images that I decided to edit from this shoot and I chose to edit them by lowering the temperature slightly to show the wintry scenes without just leaving them as grey. I think that the lack of images from this city means that there is a chance that I am not going to include it as there would just be too much of a disparity.

When editing these photos, I wanted to capitalise on the gothic, dark nature of the city and its architecture. The drama of the landscape is amplified by the high contrast, sharp shadows, and faint vignette. I feel that I have certainly created this effect and I am happy with the outcomes. They exemplify the feel of the city and its buildings.

A lot of these images are charming because of the colours in them. The sandy, warm tones of the architecture alludes to the exotic nature of the city and transports the viewer back in time to when these ancient buildings were originally built. Therefore, I chose to edit these images accordingly and to use a black and white filter fairly minimally. To create this effect, I used much the same edits throughout – lowering exposure slightly and increasing shadows to create an even tone, adding saturation very slightly and warming the image, and adding a slight vignette and increasing texture a little. I’ve included some examples below.

I copy and pasted edit settings for a lot of these images as I felt that they worked well for most of them.

I have begun to make selections across my photoshoots to find the ones that are worth editing, as I have nearly 2,000 images and cannot possibly edit them all.

Using the ‘Flag as picked’ and ‘Flag as rejected’ tools in Lightroom, I am able to pick out the images I would like to edit, which I can then filter later on. I am choosing the best images based on their aesthetic quality and their relevance to my overall intentions.

For Amsterdam, I picked a total of 54 images for editing.

For Athens, I picked a total of 80 images for editing.

For Edinburgh, I picked a total of 21 images for editing.

For London, I picked a total of 16 images for editing.

For New York, I picked a total of 59 images for editing.

For Paris, I picked a total of 32 images for editing.

From the plane journeys, I picked a total of 24 images for editing.

For St Malo, I picked a total of 43 images for editing.

For York, I picked a total of 30 images for editing.

That makes a total of 347 images.

When I edited these images, I wanted to make sure I didn’t detract from the vibrancy of the colour in a lot of them. For these images, I mostly increased contrast and made them brighter. For the images that didn’t have this level of vibrancy, (due to overexposure, underexposure, etc.) I made them black and white and increased contrast to make them more dramatic. See below for an example of one of the colourful images vs a less colourful one.

I like the way these turned out and this is why I continued relatively the same pattern throughout all of my edits.

I have begun to make selections across my photoshoots to find the ones that are worth editing, as I have nearly 2,000 images and cannot possibly edit them all.

Using the ‘Flag as picked’ and ‘Flag as rejected’ tools in Lightroom, I am able to pick out the images I would like to edit, which I can then filter later on. I am choosing the best images based on their aesthetic quality and their relevance to my overall intentions.

For Amsterdam, I picked a total of 54 images for editing.

For Athens, I picked a total of 80 images for editing.

For Edinburgh, I picked a total of 21 images for editing.

For London, I picked a total of 4 images for editing.

For New York, I picked a total of 59 images for editing.

For Paris, I picked a total of 32 images for editing.

From the plane journeys, I picked a total of 24 images for editing.

For St Malo, I picked a total of 43 images for editing.

For York, I picked a total of 30 images for editing.

That makes a total of 347 images.