My Images

My images 

The following are my images, for this brief i wanted to create a set of 8 images using landscape as my inspiration and HDR as my technique thorough the brief i have done several shoots using different landscapes and textures in those landscapes to create different HDR affects some i have over processed to show the effect it creates i haven't used this in my final 8 as i think the colours are to distorted to create the effect i wanted.

“for a photograph to be beautiful it does not need to be shocking”

The barn, this image was taken on pendle hill it is a disused barn i wanted to get the texture of the grass in the image to show different textures in HDR i have found that different textures such as the grass here and the brick walls in another image of a bridge work well in HDR as well as water.

The boat this is one of my images i am most happy with the HDR has worked well with the sand because of the textuer it has and the colour in the boat makes the image vibrant, i havent overly edited this image as i felt it would be more affective with a subtle HDR affect on it.

This image was taken at a lakeside fisshing spot again i am really happy with the HDR affect on this image i havent over odne it again as sometimes the image only needa a little editing and the efect itself works well. Ihave been trying to create a surrel almost eeiry amptmosphere in these images and feel this is the best example of this.

This image is at the same lake as the above just a different viewpoint, i have overly processed this image to show how different the images can look dependant on how much of the HDR affect you aply to the image.

This image was taken in Lytham St Anns at a windmill there i have made the windmill at a bit of an angle to make the image more interesting i am happy with the affect on this image it is in my final images fr submission of the breif.

Again i have over processed this image to show the affect it can have on the different textures of the landscape.

This image was taken on the beech at Lytham St Annes where the windmill was also taken, i think the hdr workes well with the colours in this image the and also has good textiure to it so creates a good affect with out overprocessing the image to much. 

The following image appears twice as the swan had moved its head to the other side and i liked both images so converted them both to HDR, The swan was the hardest image to capture as the image was taken over 5 shots which were all one stop apart it took a few seconds to capture all 5 and the swan had to have been completely still over all 5 exposures for the image to not have the movement included in the image. I captures over 20 images of the swan and only these 2 images were able to be successfully converted to HDR.

The following image of the tractor has some lense flare from the sun which was on the left of the image i wanted to try and get the lense flare on it without it ruining the image with it being to bright or loosing any detail from the image with it being to overexposed, i feel i have achieved my goal here. I tried this technique on the image of the barn with the light behind the barn however the image was to bright and the image looked washed out.

The image of the waterfall was the most challenging of the locations to get to because of the weather the area around the waterfall was marsh land however i had seen HDR used on water and wanted to create the effect myself so powered through. There is three sections to the waterfall i have photographed the first image in the series here is the one i am most happy with the water flowing down from the top to the bottom of the image draws your eye up it almost has a look of a set of stairs climbing up to the top of the image.

This is the second part of the waterfall although i am happy with the effect of the water at the bottom of the image i prefer the above image.

This is the second of the tractors i chose to photograph i have made this image a little more HDR looking than some of the others because the colours in the image fit with the technique better i also achieved a glow around the tractor which i am happy with.

This image is the one i was describing previously the sun was behind the barn and was shining directly into the camera this has caused the image to distort when converting to HDR i have still put it into the images to show what affect different lights can have on a HDR image.

The following images are to show the drastic affect HDR can have on an image it alsmost looks like its a drawing on some occastions. I do not like the effect over processing images has but have put these images in to show the effects and that i have tried out all areas of HDR photography to find the process i feel suits my images in the best way.