Task 3
At the beginning of this task I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to photograph as I enjoy photography thoroughly and it is hard to single out what genre of it as I like so many, I previously had looked at Advertising by Jonathan Knowles who I had thought about creating a homage for him, more specifically his Guinness advertising as I thought they were amazing, but I decided against it as time was an issue and it would of been extremely hard to pull it off, I also considered Architectural photography as I had seen some great pictures from that genre and I really enjoyed them but I finally concluded that I had always taken a liking to landscape photography as my family had a huge wall-hanging of the below image in our house. 
With that in mind I decided to do landscape photography and I immediately started off by doing a brainstorm of what I could do, I did some secondary research and quickly found that there are three types of Landscape Photography: representational, impressionistic and abstract. the representational style is also known as the straight descriptive style. Landscape photography is all about showing scenery in the way it was intended to be seen in so that the audience get a feel for the image. I then broke down the three kinds of locations I could photograph at which were:
- Forest Area’s , Focus on trees, plants wildlife
- Water Area’s I.E Lakes, ponds rivers, streams and so on.
- Buildings I.E City outlines, a good collection of building
One Photographer who has always inspired me and who’s style I was keen to imitate was Ian Badley, I like his style and he has done lots of work taking photographs within forest’s environments which is where I am choosing to do my photographs as I live about 30 seconds away from Epping Forrest and I’m sure I can get some great photo’s there. Below is some of Badley’s work which I hope I can imitate: 
I have been hired by the magazine ’Essex Life’ and I have been instructed to take 3 photos for them in a landscape style . I have decided to take photographs of
Epping forest as there is a lot of variety there and all kinds of different shots will be available as well as a wide variety in wildlife. I think the pictures will be perfect for Essex life as Epping forest is a very well known place in Essex and a landmark that everyone can relate too. my purpose of taking these photos is for me to then show the magazines audience how amazing the scenery in Essex and Epping Forest is. Essex Life is generally aimed at older people, ranging from anywhere from 30 onwards which is good because I think this is the perfect age group to appreciate my images.
My first Image
My first image was taken just outside of epping forest and is a picture of Staples Road School, it’s a historic and important building so I thought it was a good idea to include it in one of my pictures, it also shows a nice balance between an urban environment and rural forest areas, I plan on manipulating the picture slightly and generally improving the ambiance of the picture.
Final Version of my first image
I felt that by changing the colour of the sky it would make the picture feel like a warm summers day, which I think I did successfully. I didn’t want the image to look over the top and blatant that it wasn’t the original image, I think the juxtaposition between the school and forest works well and is very suited to my publication, Essex life. I changed the Hue/Saturation of the sky so that it turned to a warm blue. I feel this image would work best as a landscape picture in Essex life taking up an entire page, it will bring back good memories for the thousands who attended the school and others who recognise it.
My Second Image
This image is a true landscape picture, it is probably the best photograph that I took, Although I like the bright and vibrant colours emitted from the fallen leaves I am going to turn this image black and white as I feel that it will really empower this image and give it meaning, the image is good but with a good touch up on photoshop it could make the image great.
Below is an image of me in the process of editing my image, at this point I was turning the image black and white and giving the colours more boldness, I manipulated the amount of colour in the colour to the point that I felt it perfect.
Final Image of my second Photo
The picture almost looks like a cover of a horror book, It’s quite different and varies greatly from my first picture which was kind of my point, the beaten path meanders in to the trees in the distance, this one is obviously edited but not over-exaggerated and in your face, although this isn’t the stereotypical picture you would think you would find in Essex Life I think people will be able to appreciate and like the image.
Third Image
My last image, similar in style to my second but will not be edited in the same style, I like this image as it reaches off quite far in to the distance and has real depth to it, with this image I think I am going to make drastic changes to it whilst still keeping the feel to it, I want to show variety I can show in my images
Final Image
I selected the majority of the green and yellow leaves in my image and changed their hue in order to turn them red, to give them a more Autumn feel, I like that it’s simple to change the seasons in a picture via a few clicks of a mouse, I think this picture will do well in Essex Life as people know Autumn is fast approaching and this image can excite them for it, I don’t think the majority of people would know this image was so heavily edited which I like, however most professionals would probably easily tell, I left a small green plant in the bottom of the screen to remind people of the once lush green trees.
