I really like this low angle photo I took of the sun going down on the beach, the only problem is the patch in the sky is a little too over exposed. The only way I could fix this was to paint over the bright/exposed areas which I did with a brush which had an opacity of 80% so it blends in well and now it looks a lot nicer. I also did other small adjustments like increasing the shadows and lowering the highlights because I fell the photo would look nicer with a bit more shadow/darkness I also slightly edited the saturation of the orange to make the sunset in the sky look a lot stronger.

I like the romantic feel this has wit the tower in it because it looks kind of medieval and the romanticists liked the medieval era. The photo doesn’t need too much editing done to it as it isn’t really necessary for this image bit I did crop so there wasn’t as many branches and foliage in the way and I added a vignette as it works well on the image.

I like this photograph I took of a cliff as the weather is beautiful and the see looks lovely it was a challenging photo to take as I had to stand on this wooden fence to get the best shot. The photo is also quite similar to my artists I chose especially Joe Cornish as they both have taken stunning photographs of cliffs. I increased the blue in the image by using the colour mixes and adjusting the blues and cyans to make it more beautiful and vibrant and giving it a bit of a tropical feel. I also had to try and fix the top right of the photo as due do the powerful sun it was a bit overexposed. I did a blue overlay on the overexposed sky by colouring over it with a semi transparent blue brush which was colour matched with the sky in the area which fixed the problem, I also used the burn tool to darken the overexposed area on the cliff which definitely helped.

For this photo I adjusted the hue and saturation of the orange and yellow to give the photo a golden hour feel to it I also increased the blue and cyan to make the sky look a lot nicer and added a small vignette to give the edges a bit of depth. Overall I think the photo looks a lot better now.

Experimenting when taking the photos

I decided to do a little bit of experimenting when taking these photos as I was wearing sunglasses and decided to try putting the glasses in front of the camera lens and the results looked surprisingly good. I like the way it looks like I have applied a filter in Photoshop/Lightroom when I actually haven’t edited the photo.

Below is a photoshoot I did of about 120 photos around St. Martin area using a mix of phone camera and DSLR camera. I am really happy with how my photos turned out as the weather and lighting was perfect and resulted in some beautiful nature/natural landscape photographs.

My best/favourite images from the photoshoot

I feel like these are my favourite/best images from the photoshoot as they look the most beautiful/visually pleasing as well as fitting the most to my theme for the project. I really like my final images and think they turned out really well and better than I expected.

Editing the photographs

For this image I cropped it so the end of the road was more centred. I also adjusted the temperature and lighting which ended up creating this lovely golden feel to the photo which I really like.

I liked this image of the cows however the sky was overexposed so I had to select the sky and try and make it a bit darker by adjusting the exposure and lightness so I could work with it. I managed to make the photo a beautiful golden colour by increasing the vibrancy and temperature, it also made the sky a Golder colour which looks a lot better than the white/grey it originally was due to it being overexposed. I also did some other miscellaneous stuff like removing the wire in the bottom left with the spot remover tool and cropping the image a bit.

The sky was also too overexposed in this photo but I really liked the golden light on the field and the sun rays so I spent ages adjusting the light and colour settings and using masking to select the sky so it wouldn’t affect the rest of my photo as much.

In this image I did quite a bit of cropping to make the cow more closer and centred I also cropped out the sun as it is very bright may may look strange when printed. I also made the photo look more golden by slightly adjusting the temperature and the contrast and exposure.

For this photos I did a tiny bit of colour grading to try and create a nice balance between the golden yellows and light blues in the photo which makes it look rather nice. I also did a tiny bit of cropping so you could see the breakwater batter through the gap in the hedge. I also applied a vignette as it helps to create depth and improves contrast.

I would probably say this is my favourite image from the photoshoot because it has a really good romanticism feel to it and would look good if it was painted by romanticist painter. I wanted to make the image look a tiny bit less dull so I used the colour mixer in the camera raw filter on photoshoot to adjust to adjust the yellows. oranges and blues especially when it came to saturation to make the colours more stronger especially the golden light and blue sky.