The document describes a landscape photography shoot at Salford Quays. The photographer aimed to take photos from different angles of the main buildings to build a portfolio of 10 edited images. They used a digital camera during daylight without flash. The photographer believes they achieved their goals and obtained more photos than needed to choose from.

1. Salford Quays Landscape Photo shoot
I went to Salford Quays to do a landscape shoot. The aim of this was to get a portfolio of photos and
so then I could pick 10 of them to edit. I used a digital camera. I went out in the daytime to do my
shoot so I didn’t use a flash. I was trying to show the main buildings in Salford Quays. I wanted to
take the pictures from different angles. I think I did what I said I wanted to and I defiantly got more
pictures than I needed to so I had a range and could choose which pictures I wanted to edit.

2. For this picture first I changed the brightness and
contrast. I turned the contrast up to give the picture a
black sharp effect. I then used the equalize effect on my
picture which gave my picture a darker look, so I turned
up he brightness a bit more. I then clicked on the
variations effect and chose to add more magenta to my
picture and this is what gave my final picture the pink
look. I also chose the lighter version of magenta so that
it kept my overall picture lighter. Because in the original
there was mainly only three main colours I picked this
out and made them more bright so that these would
stand out against the white for the building.
I wanted to make my picture more bright
and fun and I think I did this using the
magenta and making the sky more blue.
This made my picture
darker and picked up
on the shadows.
This made my picture darker on
one side and lighter on the other so
I liked the spreading effect it gave.

3. This was the effect that made my
picture more pink on the darker parts of
the original image. I think this effect
gave the picture a different look and
made the picture look a lot different. On
the right hand side I could pick whether
I wanted the pink lighter or darker or
just normal and I made it lighter so that
the sky would stand out more against
the darker pink. I think this worked.
This is my final edit.

4. First I selected the top area of
my picture so I could then
change the effects of just this
section of the picture. I did this
because the sky is a lot brighter
than the bottom of the picture so
when I added an effect the
picture got to dark. Then still with
section selected I used the
curves effect this made the top
half of my picture a lot darker
and the building turn into
silhouettes. Then I used the
black and white effect to make
the silhouettes look darker and
the sky more dramatic. Then I
selected the bottom part of the
picture and just added the black
and white effect. I think it worked
because to get the sky bright like
I wanted it, it had to be dark and
the bottom of the picture wouldn’t
of looked right because it
wouldn’t of shown anything.

5. I used this effect to make
the bottom of my picture
black and white.
This effect made
the top half of my
picture black and
white.
This is my final edit.

6. First I changed the brightness and contrast to make the sky look brighter. I changed the contrast
quite high so that the image would look sharper and the shadows would be darker on the image.
Then I just used the colour balance effect to make my picture more blue. I think this worked
because the building was already blue and so I just wanted to make it stand out more against the
white of the sky. I didn't want to change this picture to much because I liked the blue anyway so I
just enhanced it.

7. First I changed the brightness and contrast this was so that the sky looked bright. I put
the contrast high so that the crisscross effect on the bridge would show up better. . This
worked and the strings were much darker. Then I used an effect called curves which
gave the whole picture a darker look and made the bridge and other building s look like
silhouettes against the sky. I liked the effect and how it picked up on the clouds and
showed the shape of them more. Then the last effect I used was colour balance, I made
the picture more pink using this effect. I like what this effect did and I think it looks good
and makes the picture look like it was taken in the evening rather than the day.

10. First I changed the brightness and contrast. I turned the brightness up but not to
much because the picture was bright anyway because of the sun. Then I changed the
contrast to make sure some of the detail stood out against the brightness. Then I
used an effect called variations where I made my picture more yellow, I liked this
effect and it made my picture look more warm and later in the day. Then I used the
curves effect this made the corners and some of the buildings a bit darker and stand
out more. Then used an effect called vibrance to make the brighter colours stand out
on the picture. Then I used an effect called levels this made the sky look like it had
different layers of colour on top of each.

12. First I selected a part of the picture I
wanted to edit so only this bit would be
changed by the effects I used. I used
the effect colour balance on this section
to make it purple. Then I changed the
contrast to make it a darker purple.
Then I selected the bottom right of my
picture as my second section. Then I
used the colour balance effect again for
this section and made it the blue colour.
I think this worked because it enhanced
the colour the water already was.

13. Then I changed the contrast to a
bit higher so that it made the
water look darker. I then selected
the final part of my picture I
hadn’t edited. I changed the
contrast and brightness of this
part then. Then I used the colour
balance effect and turned up the
yellow effect to make it look like
the sun was shining on the path
way. Then I turned up the
contrast a bit more so the
shadows showed up more.

16. First I turned up the contrast of the picture to make the building sharper and darker
against the sun. then I turned the brightness up so the sun would look brighter. Then I
used the colour balance effect to make the whole picture a purple colour. Then I
changed the contrast and brightness again. I turned the contrast up more to make the
darker things in the picture stand out especially the shadows on the water. It think this
effect made the picture look better. The I turned the brightness up a bit more so the
sun rays would show up on my picture.

20. Capture log
ISO – 80
Shutter speed - 1/1000 sec
Aperture - F/3.3
Setting - 3D camera mode
ISO – 80
Shutter speed - 1/450 sec
Aperture - F/10.4
Setting – 3D camera mode
ISO – 80
Shutter speed – 1/680 sec
Aperture – F/3.1
Setting – 3D camera mode

21. ISO – 80
Shutter speed – 1/385 sec
Aperture - F/3.5
Setting - 3D camera mode
ISO – 80
Shutter speed – 1/250 sec
Aperture – F/10
Setting – 3D camera mode
ISO – 80
Shutter speed – 1/350 sec
Aperture – F/9.7
Setting – 3D camera mode

22. ISO – 80
Shutter speed – 1/200 sec
Aperture – F/9.7
Setting – 3D camera mode
ISO – 80
Shutter speed – 1/350 sec
Aperture – F/9.7
Setting – 3D camera mode
ISO – 80
Shutter speed – 1/188 sec
Aperture – F/9.7
Setting – 3D camera mode

23. Rejected images These are three of the images I didn’t
pick. I didn’t like the first and second one
because of the angle I had taken the
picture on. It made the building look like
it was on a slant. I must have moved the
camera so the picture looked wonky. I
didn’t like all the building and other stuff
around the first two either. It looked like
I’d cropped the images and gotten rid of
bits. I didn't like the last one because of
the lighting in the picture I don’t think I
could of done much with it. I had some
better versions of this picture as well so I
used them.

24. Aims for next project
Next time if I was going to do this project again I would make sure I
took more pictures than this time. I didn’t need to but I would of liked to
have gone to some different places to get different angles of the same
view. I didn’t go everywhere around Salford Quays so I would do that
next time so that I photographed as much as I could. Next time I would
like to try different shutter speeds and move my camera to see what it
did to my pictures, also maybe do a shoot at night so I could use a flash
and see how it effected the picture. I didn’t use a flash in any of my
pictures because it was bright out but next time I could try and see of it
made my pictures look any better.