Pre/Post Production

Equipment for shoot

  • Camera body
  • Lens 
  • Vertical battery grip 
  • Battery charger 
  • x2 batteries 
  • Wrist strap 
  • x4 memory cards 
  • Lens cloth 
  • Myself 

Equipment for Post-Production 

  • Laptop
  • Hard drive 
  • Memory Cards 
  • Creative Cloud, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Bridge 
  • Microsoft Word
  • Internet Access to blog

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. 

My hope is that in smaller images I can really capture the human impact and focus my attention onto our tarnishes. 

Research in relation to the context of my walks

Older Books of the Cotswolds and Wotton-Under-Edge

Some books we had at home that I looked through, I found them really interesting and found out new facts about Wotton that I didn't know before. It was also nice to see images of Wotton way back when. 

This essay is for one of my other modules, however I learnt a lot about climate change and it was great research as part of this module too. So I have decided to add it in.

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. 

Meta Data 

Meta Data, is a collection of information embedded in an image. E.g., captioning, keywords, descriptions, camera settings and the artists copyright. This means either a company or another person cannot use your image without your consent. I can edit my meta data through adobe bridge. This year I have had to use meta data for several projects and I feel that I am getting better at using it. 

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