Work Record

Plans for the shoot:

I plan to visit two parks in London, (NAMES), I want to get pictures showing rural landscapes in urban areas because I think they are an incredibly important thing to have. They give the city diversity, meaning there is a large range of not only people but animals and plants as well. Nature reserves also give people the chance to get away from the city without having to travel far and I think that this is really good. Furthermore I think that having areas like this is important for the environment and it makes areas like London more sustainable, this is because of the huge number of plants there that take in carbon dioxide, levelling out our carbon emissions a little bit more. However the amount of carbon we are emitting is still unsustainable so we need to both lower our emissions and also create more nature reserves like this one.

What I hope to achieve:

I hope to take photos showing just the rural landscapes, and the rural and urban landscapes together, I think that this will show the contrast and help me to show how areas like this help cities become more sustainable. I hope that the weather is good on the day I go to shoot because the photographs won't look as good as I think they will in sunlight if it is raining or it's cloudy. However if it is raining I will try and make the best of it and get some good photos using the rain to my advantage.

What I actually achieved:

When I went out it was incredibly sunny which was perfect for the photographs I hoped to take, many of the photographs are in direct sunlight which looks really pretty, although some of them are in darker lighting because they were blocked from sunlight behind a tree or a wall. It was difficult at times to tell if my photograph was over exposed by a bit because the weather was so bright, however now my photographs are on the computer, not many of them are over-exposed, which is a relief. 

A few of my photographs use shallow depth of field, I think that this looks very good because it keeps you focused on one thing, however I did do a few photographs that used a wide depth of field, I did this because I wanted the entire photograph to be in focus as the whole landscape was very pretty, I didn't want to focus on just one part.

This photo was taken using the camera settings:

Shutter Speed: 1/320

F stop: 5.0

ISO: 200

Aperture priority

I really like this photograph because I think it is framed well, however it is quite bright. I may have needed to take the photograph with a higher f/stop or a faster shutter speed. Although, personally I think that it looks nice quite bright because it makes it seem like it was incredibly sunny out, which it was but this creates that effect even more. I could've used the tripod to take this photograph as this would've looked nice and I could steady it more. But because it was so bright I don't think this would've worked as my camera aperture doesn't go high enough.

This photograph was taken using the camera settings:

Shutter Speed: 1/160

F Stop: 4.0

ISO: 200

Aperture priority

This photograph shows a shallow depth of field, this is because the tree is in focus, whilst the background isn't, meaning that your eyes are focused on the tree rather than other things in the photograph. I think that this looks really good, it isn't overly bright which looks good because the colours look very lush this way.