Natural #1 Work Diary

In this shoot i decided to go with the idea of full naturalness as opposed to natural with a side on manmade, it is the most obvious thing to do when shooting landscapes however I had not done it yet. This shoot was very relaxing as I simply walked around the forest near my house and took pictures, I was really lucky as it was a sunny day therefore I got some really nice pictures of the sun peaking through the trees. What I find amusing is I intended for this to be my first shoot in unit 4 however I found the burnt out car, I then returned to this many weeks later with better weather and made it my last shoot. With this shoot I didn't over edit the image, in fact all I really did was levels and curves on them apart from a couple because I wanted to keep the element of naturalness within the images. 

In this image I took a picture looking straight up as I was really intrigued by the way it seemed as if the branches was a hand reaching out for the leaves on the opposite tree. When doing this shoot I had a particular image of Fay Godwins in mind and when I saw this picture opportunity I was really happy as it seemed as if I was recreating her image however with my own spin on it and from my own angle. 

 In this image I had taken a picture of three different little individual parts of the forest, in each of the images I used depth of field to focus on each of them and to make the rest of what was going on behind the focussed thing irrelevant. I have made this multiple imagery piece into a trisect, something I have really enjoyed doing in this unit of my photography as I find it allows for a lot more focus and the image isn't too overloaded with 9 images which you would find on 3x3 grid. I kept the images in this tripect very natural and avoided changing the colour or making it black and white because I think it was edited enough with the grid by itself. 

If I was to continue…

If I was to continue with this unit and had to provide a next shoot I think I would like to go somewhere with a river or lake and perhaps experiment with reflections, making reflection the aspect of the shoot. I would like to do this because I have seen it in a few photographers portfolios which I have researched and I really like how serene it looks, however I would of had to have done this on a day where the was not even the slightest breeze in the continue.