All throughout taking and editing my photos I tried to show a wide range of skills despite it not being my strongest area of media. I took 100 photos on a Canon EOS 600D (DSLR camera) and edited my favourite landscape 5 photos in Adobe Photoshop CC. Strength of mine was I could easily think of ideas when it came to thinking of what images to take. I made sure I kept to my proposal and brief and therefore made sure all the photos taken were urban landscapes. Landscape photography is a scenic/establishing shot taken in landscape rather than portrait, which could be anything from urban city life to the rolling hills of the countryside. Photography techniques used during these types of shots for example low and high aperture to give the photo a different atmosphere. I went to Manchester to take some urban landscape photos in order to promote the city. I set the camera to manual and experimented with different camera settings to give the photos different effects. We visited Manchester on Sunday 11th December, in order to take a wide range of urban photographs, with the aim in mind to take 100. Within the city, we visited many of the diverse locations in which I had originally desired to visit. Places we visited included Manchester Town Hall, The Urbis, The Christmas Markets, Old Trafford Football Stadium and Piccadilly Gardens. This allowed me to take a range of photographs that demonstrate the diversity and muti-cultural areas of the city. Modern aspects include the Football stadium and The Urbis, in contrast to the older developments, which include the Town Hall. We took hundreds of photos; I choose my favourite five and edited them in Photoshop. I managed to stick to the proposal since I had a lot of time and no transport issues. I only tweaked this photos colour, as I wanted to keep the overall atmosphere of the photo. I did this so it looked less dull and the shapes stood out more. I made it more vibrant, however in doing so the yellows became prominent so I adjusted it as best as I could using the colour balance tool. Sometimes less is more when it comes to editing photos. The shot itself was taken outside The Urbis building and includes a few buildings overlapping each other. It was taken around 4pm when the sun had already begun to set; this is why the photo is slightly dark which is the effect that I wanted. Despite this I could of improved the photo by having the camera slightly more in focus and well as adjusting the ISO slightly higher. I could have also taken this photo from a better angle, probably a lower angle. Seen as the photo looked dreary to begin with I thought why not go all the way and turn it black and white. I did this by decreasing the saturation; I also increased the vibrance by half way, as I wanted the outlines of buildings pop. At first I increased the vibrance too much to the point where there was too much white noise so I had to tone it down quite a bit. I went with a dramatic theme for the photo, since the shot already looked dull I just made it look even duller. I then decided at that point that I wanted to make it look old fashioned (from the 70's & 80's). I used the cloudy weather to my advantage in order to achieve a better edited image than my original. I could of improved taking this photo by not including as much sky in the shot, hence why I cropped it, which makes it look more like a banner. To improve this shot I should have the lens more in focus and increase the ISO up. I took this photo onto top of the car park of the Manchester Evening Arena (MEN). In this photo the light was working with us to create some amazing shadows and the sunset itself is beautiful. I turned up the temperature in the RAW image file to make it look even more brighter, giving it that warm feel. I also added a lens flare, due to the exaggeration of the bright light for added effect. To improve this photo edit I could of turned the oppacity down on the lens flare to make it as natrual as possible. We took this photo from Media City of The Imperial War Museum in Salford Quays meaning it’s a highly zoomed in shot. This lowers the quality slightly, as you can see the edges of buildings aren't as sharp, however this also party was because the camera should have been a bit more focused. I love have perfectly this image captures the sunlight. As the sun started to set I used the light to my advantage as it created a shimmering flow on the buildings. My aim was to make these modern buildings look old fashioned by changing the colour and texture of the photo. To do this I turned the photo to colourized, turned the hue down to 25, turned the saturation down to 20 and adjusted the lightness accordingly. Now that the photo is the right colour I wanted to add the texture to it, to do this I duplicated the layer and drag and dropped an image of an old piece of paper. I then adjusted the size so that it matches up with the photo and turned down the opacity level to make it transparent. This photo was taken at Salford Quays of the Imperial War Museum. I think this photo looks pretty nice by itself without the need for editing it but I did anyway, therefore I think the only way I could improve this is to possibly take it from a different angle. This photo was purposely taken out of focus to add bokeh. I played around with the colour in Photoshop to achieve this this look of a lot of the colours resulting in the opposite, give the photo a different atmosphere and therefore a whole different feel. There are a lot of blue in the edited image, this gives it a cold feel to it. The only thing, which doesn’t look realistic in the edited photo, is the publics abnormally blue faces. To improve this edit I could of adjusted the colouration in peoples faces by using the brush tool. There is a slight bit of white noise after I edited this photo as well, I could have took my time to remove it in order to make it more visually appealing. To improve the actual photo itself I could of kept the bokeh in the background but made sure the objects closer to the lens was in focus. This is taken just next to Piccadilly Gardens on the stairs of the tram stop.
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