Landscape Contract Sheet

Having taken 27 photographs for my Landscape photograph joining exercise, I decided to use them all. With more photographs I may have been able to obtain the same light levels across the scene but I felt the patchwork look to the final image drew the viewer towards the various areas of the landscape.

Landscape Photo joining

Cwmbran

The landscape is the picturesque view of the Severn Channel taken from the bottom of my street with Cwmbran and Newport in the foreground and Bristol almost visible in the distance behind.  On a less hazy day both Severn bridges are visible.

Although it was a nice dry sunny day the partial cloud caused variations in the brightness of the photographs.

Life Boat Station Contact Sheets

Again due to the extreme cold and wind I only took 28 photographs for Lifeboat photo joining. With hindsight I should have taken more as I used the majority of them to create the final image and could have used additional shots to help complete the missing areas.

Life Boat Station Porthcawl

 Porthcawl

Taken whilst standing on the Porthcawl Harbour wall during the same extremely cold, windy day as the Severn Beach exercise the main focus of the image is the RNLI lifeboat station. Having taken 28 photographs from the slipway past the lifeboat station towards the tower I must admit the adverse weather conditions resulted in the lack of shots. Having paused a number of times to keep my cold hands from freezing to the camera the sky changed colour above the tower due to the setting sun giving the appearance of another day with different colouring.

Again in retrospect I should have taken more images, especially closer together to allow me to create a better perspective of the area surrounding the lifeboat station and harbour.

Severn Beach Contact Sheet

Working on the minimalist principle that less is more I only took 22 photographs for the Severn Beach photo joining exercise (but it was extremely cold). Having used the majority of them and with the benefit of hindsight I realised that it is easier to create a montage from a greater number of images. This will prevent gaps and duplicate areas in the future.