Live on Location
Harvington Hall
To plan for Shooting into photographing Harvington Hall, i researched into their own website page, to work with their style to keep it current to their target audience of all ages from school children to senior adults, who all enjoy visiting the Historic house.
The Style of images that is shown on the webpage are very simple, this is mainly to show how the house sits in the surroundings of the gardens that is owned by the natural trust.
The house sits in it's all natural glory surrounded by Gardens.
as well as researching into composition with Pinterest, I found photographer, Ruth Bourne, she had photographed the Malt house after its restoration of the Malt House.
The exposure time for the images ranged between 1/30 1/50 1/80, this allowed enough light and contrast depending where the sun sat during the period of the day. these exposure times also allowed me to avoid over and underexposure to the images.
Analysis on contact sheet
Over viewing my contact sheets, there are parts where the work should have been neater, sharper contrast with the correct exposure, including more within the frame work of the image. however, there are images where this has been achieved.
on a full review of the images they could be neater, sharper and better framed, by following my research more to fit for purpose to the project brief that had been set, i would have met these targets however, with minor limitations, i had produced enough images to follow the style of Harvington hall webpage.
the images could be better, have more variety to what Harvington Hall has to offer and what it is about, unfortunately I and a small set back in not being able to photograph inside but the outside had a lot to offer, in the itself, the Malt house and the restoration along with a garden walk. I did try and capture each set throughout the images, I misjudged the composition and exposure to the weather becoming cloudy throughout the day but overlooking this shoot, there are some images that show just what i was aiming into showing.
for future improvements, I would just need to take more care into planning against the weather and making faster judgements with exposure and composition.
The selected Five Images
The Style of images that is shown on the webpage are very simple, this is mainly to show how the house sits in the surroundings of the gardens that is owned by the natural trust.
The house sits in it's all natural glory surrounded by Gardens.
To plan furthermore into producing images to fit to the clients brief of showing the wonders of Harvington all Gardens and architecture. I did some research into past photographs to help keep the same style while making it meet the current market.
as well as researching into composition with Pinterest, I found photographer, Ruth Bourne, she had photographed the Malt house after its restoration of the Malt House.
I researched into Pinterest purely for composition, so my images worked between other photographers and the webpage for Harvington itself.
by using the selected research images as a starting point to keep the image relevant.
planning the shoot and equipment
To promote the website, I planned against the weather, to make sure it was dry with limited cloud and enough sun to give contrast. throughout the week leading up to the day of the shoot, i kept on top of the weather to make sure it wasn't going to rain, to avoid having to cancel and re-arrange to do the shoot.
The equipment i am using will my digital, this will help with quick selection and editing before sending them off to the company for them to be used on their webpage. incase of high sun, i will be using a uv filter or a ND filter, this will help with keeping all the colours that will be exposed in the image.
Contact Sheets
The exposure time for the images ranged between 1/30 1/50 1/80, this allowed enough light and contrast depending where the sun sat during the period of the day. these exposure times also allowed me to avoid over and underexposure to the images.
Analysis on contact sheet
Over viewing my contact sheets, there are parts where the work should have been neater, sharper contrast with the correct exposure, including more within the frame work of the image. however, there are images where this has been achieved.
on a full review of the images they could be neater, sharper and better framed, by following my research more to fit for purpose to the project brief that had been set, i would have met these targets however, with minor limitations, i had produced enough images to follow the style of Harvington hall webpage.
the images could be better, have more variety to what Harvington Hall has to offer and what it is about, unfortunately I and a small set back in not being able to photograph inside but the outside had a lot to offer, in the itself, the Malt house and the restoration along with a garden walk. I did try and capture each set throughout the images, I misjudged the composition and exposure to the weather becoming cloudy throughout the day but overlooking this shoot, there are some images that show just what i was aiming into showing.
for future improvements, I would just need to take more care into planning against the weather and making faster judgements with exposure and composition.
The selected Five Images
Evaluation on the images
Each image shows a variety of images from around Harvington Hall of the house including the restoration of the Malt house and the gardens, to where you can enjoy the history and a walk around Harvington Hall.
searching and analysing through each image, to see whether or not it was fit for purpose on promoting Harvington Hall, I carefully selected the top five images to fit into the same or a similar style. by working with weather and carefully selecting the right exposure settings, ISO, aperture, white balance, all the images would have a strong contrast with natural shadows from sun.
when it came to editing the six selected images, to avoid over editing, i started of with the basics in Camera raw, checking the exposure and adding small saturation to the image in parts that was lost. this then got worked into on Photoshop by working into the selected colour, to not over tone the colours but to make it look natural but with sharper tones.
all images had the same editing techniques applied. this helped keeping the images all the same and to avoid looking out of place.
Overall evaluation on the project
reflecting on the project as a whole, I am quite happy with how the shoot went, producing the style images, researching into how to follow a clients brief, I am happy with how the final outcome has been produced even with little spaces for improvements.
The only set back to this project was that I was unable to photograph inside the house, but for future improvements onto working in this area, I would have had to email Harvington Hall asking for permission with a brief explanation as to why I am doing this idea.
even with the out breaks of sun between the clouds during most part of the day for this shoot, I had overcome small obstacles into producing a good set of images that show different variety of the outside house and gardens.
