Exercise 4 Editing

For this exercise I decided to use the photographs that I had taken at the 2010 F1 Hockenheim Grand Prix.

I used the the windows folder system for the editing as that is the system that I use for usually storing my photographs. For each edit I created a new folder within the original folder.

Stage 1 was fairly straight forward as there are usually plenty of poor technical photographs taken at a sporting event, especially if you do not have the very best equipment/lenses ( that I don't).

Step two was fairly tricky as I ended up including far more photographs than I should have done as I found it difficult to discard any technically proficient photos.

For step 3 I made a decision to concentrate on crowd photos as the equipment I had used appeared to be better suited for close ups. These are the ones that I chose:

I choose this photo because it had vibrant colour, people and a car in it.

I felt obliged to put this photo in as it was the only semi decent one I had of a F1 car, the fence is a distraction though.

This is a photo of my son watching the race. I like it because it is high quality in focus and detail.

This photo is a wider perspective of the previous shot and includes more crowd.

I choose this photo as it gives a bit of colour and scale to the race arena.

Step 4 didn't really help with the selection process as I did not change my mind on any of the photographs that I had selected it did however help with the step five as it confirmed which of the two images I would use for my final edit.

I choose these two as my final photographs:

I choose this photo as it has a bit of everything in it, people cars and colour, it was also one of the technically better shots.

I choose this photo because it was my favourite of the set. Although it does not have any cars in the photograph it is clear from the hat and the ear plugs what the boy is watching. I also like the composition and the quality of the photograph.

Conclusions: I found that this exercise was very interesting, some steps were harder than others. What I also discovered was that the majority of my photographs were not to standard that I was happy with when I looked at them in detail.