fish eye landscapes

Recently I purchased a small fish eye lens to attach onto my phone. I felt this would create a variety of images that look different to the everyday landscape. I used the lens during the evening to create a interesting image. These images are really interesting as they take the everyday landscape and add depth and make the audience look closer into the image.
 These images are unedited:

These images I have slightly edited:

Thomas Joshua Cooper inspired

After previously looking at TJC work, I wanted to create an image that I really liked and that had taken inspiration from him. I have been planning this image for a while but never come across the moment to take the picture. I love TJC's work as he fills the frame with simple natural designs like this one which was the source of inspiration. I like the way the image fits the screen and the detail is still quality. The black and white effect works well and adds to the mysterious nature side of the image.




Below are the two shots I took recently on my phone with TJC in mind. I tried to fill the screen and produce a high quality shot just like the one above. I then edited the image and tried the B&W effect similar to TJC and I have added the result of that below too.



UNEDITED SHOTS

EDIT SHOT

In this shot, I used a B&W effect and tried to balance the sharpness right with the sharpness tool. I tried it with full sharpness but felt it created a unrealistic image and didn't look like the inspiration had been taken from TJC. I believe to have found the right balance and have created an image I am myself very proud off. Due to this image being taken in the snow the image itself was already B&W therefore the effect didn't do much but just as a safety for any colour in it, yet the sharpness really stands out.

Charlie Waite shoot 2

Previously I researched Waite and really liked his work. I then took inspiration and went on another shoot in which I restricted myself to only use the square setting or limit myself to the square crop in Photoshop. I found this really easy as the images I took really looked simple and effective in this square format. I took these images on my phone and found it really difficult to get quality images as it was night time so I have tried my best to attain quality.

Here are three of the final images that I took in inspiration of Charlie Waite:

Inspiation #2 - Charlie Waite

Charlie Waite is a UK based photographer who's landscape images are noted for his square format images using a 6x6. I have only used one to analyse as it is my favorite and most of his images are created with the same techniques. Below is an image I really like due to the layers. This image is personally my favorite because I like how the image has been naturally framed and layered. The animals in the foreground create The animals have all turned so the image is elongated even more. I also love how the image has been divided up into different colored sections and shows the foreground to be brighter than the background. I also love the clouds and how they spread themselves out towards the end. I want to create images with this style and also use the technique of cropping images in this way. I have added below an example of my work: 

Below are more of Waites work but the technique of the 6X6 is not used. 

previous landscapes

Looking through my photography collection of my own images, I found that I took a multitude of image in the landscape style. Here I have added the RAW images that are un-edited. I will edit these pictures in Photoshop and add them to a separate blog post.

high dynamic range landscapes

HDR also known as high dynamic range is an effect most digital camera have in order to add detail to images. On my phone there is an effect to use HDR which takes 3 images and mixes them together varying the exposure of each part of the image. This effect can also be added online using Photoshop which most photographers do.
The human eye can see approximately 11 stop and therefore when a photographer spots a chance for a photography, the fact a camera only see's roughly 5 stops (can vary) can be a difficulty. I have attached some HDR images:

rule of three in landscapes

Using the rule of three I wanted to show how this technique can be applied to ensure the images I produce look professional. The rule of three involves splitting your camera screen/view finder into a grid which can be used to split the image up. The rule of three either splits your image up into horizontal or portrait grids. These can be used to show 2/3's sky and 1/3 foreground (or the opposite)  to ensure the image is spaced out and looks more presentable.

Here is a couple of images I researched that used the rule of three.

Here is an example of one of my own pictures that uses the rule of thirds to create a spaced out image:

Inspiration #1 - Thomas Joshua Cooper

Thomas Joshua Cooper is one of my favourite landscape photographers as his work is really simple and yet still is touching and effective. He works with simple imagery and does not seem to want to create busy images yet uses nature and the natural environment around him.
Cooper specifically has a few images I am most fond about names 'Trees' This collection of images I personally love as all the images fill the frame and create a busy yet simple image. Here are some of his images in which I want to take inspiration from these images and apply it to my own photography. All the images are also in Black and White therefore add a mysterious effect to them all.
Here are some of the images I especially like:

Landscape shoot #1

Today using a local area, I explored the land around college with my Iphone. I used my Iphone on the first shoot for two reasons; 1, to see the results on a phone so I can either change or improve for the future and number 2 to explore how my camera can be used in different lightings and settings.

Using my phone I didn't find to be challenging but I felt like it was a disadvantage when wanting to produce high quality shots. Here are the original RAW images:

(these images are un-edited just to show you)

-LANDSCAPE-

Given the brief of landscape made me interested further than any previous projects as I feel there is much more variety in landscapes. The nature gives us beauty which can create such stunning images and can be edited in either a realistic and beautiful way or on the opposite quite an abstract and shockingly changed way. I want to play around with both these takes on landscape images and see what I can create. I have found myself leaning towards taking pictures of landscapes around me everyday and wanted to create a never ending memory of the beauty of the sky.

More experimentation with Photoshop

Here I have edited some chemigrams and worked with the invert and the colour changer. These sliders create a grunge and Gothic feel to the images and an abstract view. I simply changed the colour of these images by adding a blue tint and inverted the image to add more contrast. I like the way these images turned out as they look abstract just through the colour and makes the audience wonder about the actual image focus.

 (I've added the images in a smaller scale to ensure they don't lack quality)

Experimentation in Photoshop

Here I have scanned in my chemigrams and have layered an image I previously had. I used a portrait and added a chemigram created with a food items in the dark room. I think they layered effect make the image busy and seem full of confusion like intended. I also used the effect of inverting both images which created a dark tone to the shots and a blue tint to the portrait.

Here is the previous images and the combined results.