Photography Series

The theme of my series is "changing seasons". Have a looksee:

"House"

"Alley"

"Street"

Now, from the order the pictures are in, you would assume they're in chronological order. You would be right, but maybe not in the order you think. See, the first picture taken is the street at the bottom. The last picture chronologically is the house at the top. See, what happened was that as spring was coming, the snow was starting to melt by the afternoon (when the picture of the street was taken.) However at night and in the mornings there would be a fresh layer of snow (the picture of the alley was taken in the morning). Lastly, we had a cold snap for a while and got a ton of snow around the middle of April (when the picture of the house was taken). I used a cooler filter (filter is actually an understatement, more on that below) on the last photo and a warmer filter on the first to hint at the fact that the last photo was taken closer to winter. It just so happens that those filters also complement the photos really well, with the warm colours of the house and vegetation lending themselves well to the warm filter, and the cooler colours of the sky, clouds, and road lending themselves well to the cool filter. The alley photo has no filter and was brightened to emphasize the lack of a filter, cementing the notion that it belongs in the middle of the two filtered images. 

Over the course of this project I took quite a few pictures (somewhere in the realm of 30, more if you count shots I was unhappy with and deleted) and worked on improving my angles and use of natural lines, editing, drawing attention to objects, portraying scale, and adjusting lighting and color. The iOS camera app has a rather large suite of tools for adjusting grain, lighting, colour, aspect ratio, and more. In addition, the three pictures have been heavily cropped to accentuate the natural lines and remove less aesthetically pleasing things like vehicles, cut-off objects or objects which draw the eye away from the subject, and just to draw attention to the subject in general. 

The process started with the 30 or so photos I took, which were cut down to 10 I thought really stood out. I edited those 10 and then brought the number down to 6 that I thought were really outstanding or interesting. From there I looked over and further edited all 6, then chose three based on how well they looked, what kind of theme they shared, and how I could build a series around them. Once these 3 were selected they were again edited further and arranged in a fashion which benefited the series and theme, I like all three photos but I'd say out of the three the best is "Street" and the worst is "Alley".