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Oban sunset - first use of camera now edited. Cropped to rule of thirds, enhanced Curves with blue and sharpened edges to 0.22.

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How and Why:
Kelpies:
for both and individual kelpie I retouched sky to loose birds and electrical cables and light column. Saturated sky to make 35.51 blue hue & sharpened intensity to 0.24.

Stirling Castle onto Wallace Monument:
Cropped all sides to focus on rule of thirds. Grass was saturated at +50.48 to bring attention to the distance, this also changed the wall colour green but did give it a more saturated depth. The canon was saturated to maintain neutral black -88.07 and luminance +34.07. I played around with this a lot as changed to a blue hue, eventually being happy with my eye and not taking too much notice of the figures.

Borders Landscape:
I cropped to create an elongated horizontal image, this demonstrated a clearer rule of thirds. I adjusted light and colour so it showed a flourishing greener landscape rather than the full day it was, finished with a 0.24 definition.

Stirling Cemetery:
Changed to black and white.
Vignette softness 0.77
Definition 0.75
Cropped to highest point of right hand rock to create a convex shape at the bottom.

Snowdrops in the Wind:
Cropped all sides to focus on the main plant.
Added levels of green to enhance stalks.

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Cosette - Les Miserables - Annie Leibovitz

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I am attracted to Cosettes vibrant eyes, yet dark that eggaggerates the light on her cheekbones to show her young innocence.  The eyes are taking over the dull colour palette that clearly captures the despair and desperation to tell the story yearning you to empathise with the situation of the story - whatever it is. Which invites you to see the show.
In Anne’s autobiography she stated:
“A light meter is only a guide. It shouldn’t be used literally.  When I decided to tone down the strobe, we made it even with the natural light rather than being a stop over. Then we went a stop or two under the natural light. I liked the way things looked when they were barely lit. The darker pictures seemed refined, mysterious.”
Anne Leibovitz - Autobiography: ‘At Work.’
Annie was the first female lead photographer for Rolling Stone magazine known for photography within glossy magazine publications such as world-renowned Vanity Fair and Vogue.

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Durham Cathedral: use of lights as the LEADING LINES to take you to the SCALE of the roof and back down to the hanging lights that are usually not seen as blend in without the up light. The stand in the foreground could of been slightly copped to enhance LINES and SCALE along with the PATTERNED floor. 

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Beamish Museum: this demonstrates HORIZON LINE, RULE OF THIRDS & PATTERN REPETITION with the clouds. I like this as there’s only small elements to suggest its a modern photo. With clever editing it could be made to look vintage by removing the sign and cropping the railway lines.

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Composition is the arrangement of elements in a work of art, in photography it is the rules and guidelines that help create stronger images to focus the viewers eye where the photographer wants them to look, however sometimes breaking these rules can create the most strongest images. e.g timeless images that cannot be captured ever again.
I have added a range of existing photographs that demonstrate composition all taken by myself on my DSLR or mobile phone.

Rules of composition include rule of thirds, horizon line, symmetry/pattern, scale, reflection, use of colour, leading lines, framing, pattern, repetition, simplicity, negative/positive space and horizon lines.

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Acropolis: taken from low down to emphasise the LEADING LINES towards the roof to emphasise it’s size against the vivid COLOUR of the blue sky. 

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Cruise ship: the LEADING LINE rope takes your eye emphasising the huge bow or hull

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Scottish Castle: Huge munroes in the background, castle mid and person in the foreground demonstrating SCALE and RULE OF THIRDS and opposing COLOUR variation to support the smaller elements.

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Shutter speed

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Oban Sea & Islands: HORIZON LINE, REFLECTION, NEGATIVE & POSITIVE SPACE demo equal parts water and sky to enhance duplication of the main subjects. Boat coming into shot.

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Shallow depth of field

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Shutter speed

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Shallow and deep depth of field

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Shutter speed demo

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Shutter speed

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Demonstrating:
Shallow and deep depth of field.
Fast and slow shutter speed

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Various

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NCFE Level 1 Photography

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Shooting on Many modes: but hoping for the best. If I like it I’ll shoot.
Nikon D3400. No other lenses. 2 batteries. Tripod.
I want to be able to understand the basics to be able to shoot on manual.
Battery is charged on mains and fitted by pushing back the removing yellow tab that holds it in place, then replacing the slide cover.
I learnt about ISO and how it is able to brighten or darken the photograph through light sensitivity and importance of correct exposure. This was practiced in reception.
Shutter speed: time sensitive measured in fractions/seconds.
Aperture works like a human pupil/lens letting light in.
I probably have confusion when we start to use all three in different circumstances upon requiring different set up.

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Photograph by Steve McCurry. This phonograph is timeless, used for the cover of National Geographic for a reason. This photo is a runner up to Simons Military photo as I like his lack of colour and slight iris tint. However for this colour photo this it’s the rawness of the girls clothes, the face of the girl is urgent but still, the piercing grey/green eyes is drawing you in to want you to know more. There has been follow ups to the girl in the photo on her changes in her life. 

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Summer 2020. Keswick. Don’t normally like people in photographs but he is facing away and gives perspective.

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A photo of the sunset in Croatia from 2021 holidays 

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2021 Adriatic holiday.  The evening moon. Nothing else is disturbing this image. Apart from the sea depths. 

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RAW file type - captures every bit of image quality so that editing can be started with the original quality

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Camera DSLR Nikon 3400
Standing tripod
Spare battery
Secure digital SD 32GB memory card

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Photography Level 1 - Houghall. Simon Green - Tutor.  Day one 17/01/33.
13 on course.
Been 4 yrs since I used my camera.