Equipment for shoot

Equipment for Post-Production 

Shoot Plan

I plan to walk one route in Wotton-Under-Edge.

1. Mount Pleasant 
2. Wortley Road
3. Locombe Place
4. Knap Road
5. The Oak Ground 
6. Synwell Lane
7. West View
8. Holywell Road
9. Marchese Walk & Dyers Brook
10. Court Orchard 
11. Synwell Lane 
12. Mount Pleasant 

I've decided that I am not going to take my tri-pod with me, because of the angles I want to shoot. I also want my images to be hand-held/natural.

I will be walking this route about once a week, at different time of the day to see if anything changes. I want to show the smaller images in the landscape by using different perspectives and angles, rather than looking at the landscape in front o you as one big picture. 

To take these different perspectives I plan to get creative by sitting and or standing in the road (carefully). Getting up close to things to take them from different angles. I plan to use a range of shots including: close-up, extreme close-up and medium shot. 

Image Selection 

I had over 300 images from my shoots. So widdling down to twenty-two was difficult. I began by giving all my images a star rating on Bridge, with my mum to help. Once I had done that, I gathered all the four and five star images and put them in one folder. Afterwards my mum and I went back through and re rated them. This helped widdle them down to a final twenty-eight. From there we were sure, so I decided to get all twenty-eight printed and lay them out on the table to see which ones worked and which did not. This made editing much easier. I decided to keep the images in order of the route that I walked, this made the narrative more authentic. 

Post-Production 

Due to my lack of Adobe Photoshop skills our technician Matt, gave me two 1-2-1s using Camera Raw and basic Photoshop functions.

Photoshop Tutorial - Matt.F - 16.02.21

I found the after practicing with Camera Raw, my editing has become so much easier. I try my best to take less images, spending more time taking them. This makes post-production much easier as there is less to edit. Now I am studying Photojournalism and Documentary Photography opposed to Editorial and Advertising, Matt encouraged me to try and just shoot in RAW, rather than RAW and JPEG. This was definitely a change for me as I now have to use Adobe Bridge to access my images. It took me a while to get my head around it and I am still practicing, however it is becoming easier day by day and I am becoming a better photographer because of it. 

My Book - Route, Record, Repeat 

For my book, I decided to go ahead with Microsoft Word. This is due to my lack of knowledge and skill with InDesign and other soft wears. I thought using Word was going to be straight forward, however it turned to be harder than I had first thought. There also wasn't as many editing options for a book layout, this limited my creativity. If I were to do this again I would build on my InDesign skills through tutorials to then make my book this way. 

Colour Management (CMS)

Colour management helps to keep consistency in colour between devices. Each time a jpeg is edited the quality deteriorates, colour management is similar in a way but it helps lessen the deterioration to try and keep it the same colour.

Meta Data 

Book Layouts