LO3: Edited Images

My camera settings I used to take these photos was a canon 2000d with a traditional 18-35 mm lens. I controlled my photos by changing the aperture and the shutter speed. I had a fast shutter speed and a low aperture setting of which allows more light to go through the camera, this creates a shallow Depth of Field, this is an unconventional method as I wanted to create a different look to standard Landscape Photographers. The fact I have used a kit lens 18 - 55mm means this is hardly noticeable with a very mild medium DOF. This allowed a lot of light to go into the lens but not so much that it over exposed. 

Editing

When taking these photos, I saw that the colour was too bland and the colours were not vibrant and eye catching, I want these photos to appear photographic but with elements of oil paintings, in reference to the brief I feel that of using Adobe Lightroom to adjust certain colours edit the curves and contrast give the images an industrial oil painted look. Through Adobe lightroom I adjusted the contrast and the highlights and the shadows. This made the darks very dark and allowed the other colours pop such as the sign in the photo I created with western tower in the background, I also added temperature changes to add to the atmosphere of the photos. For example, for the danger keep out photo I changed the temperature to a minus number to make the photo cooler as this is a cold unforgiving environment and I needed to accentuate this. However, I know that a lot of editing can lose the quality of the photo such adding noise to the photo and making the quality of the photo as the pixels have been adjusted losing the photo in the process. Having said this, people use editing to make the photo look clearer and more distinct by using the sharpening tool and curves tool. People use editing effects to create hyper realism and an ideal picture that people are excited by, this I feel is something I have achieved but with some elements of the original raw photograph. These adjustments in photoshop are vital to a photo just to clean up an original photo that is rough around the edges and editing polishes a photo making the image as professional as possible.