During the photo-shoot in Chichester, I used a variety of composition techniques and camera-work skills, to produce photos ready to be edited and finalised in Photoshop. One of the things I used to great effect was the manual focus on the camera, this allowed me to focus on the brick wall so that the high-street and people would be blurred, symbolising the hustle and bustle of the busy street, creating a very atmospheric photograph, shown in the top-left of the collage. Furthermore, I experimented with the depth of field to create a blurry foreground of the leaves in the bottom-right photograph, to act as framing for the photo and to draw your eyes into the centre of the photo. I could have used depth of field better in this scenario to make the leaves more blurry in the foreground to create a greater contrast in focus for a more interesting photograph. Additionally, I used conventions such as leading line, framing and rule-of-thirds, to produce interesting images. 

Simon Roberts's artistic visions in his paintings and photographs influenced me during my photo shoot, to go for a modern day landscape, such as the local high-street, within my work, and I tried to incorporate leading line and rule-of-thirds, which were the main conventions I noticed Roberts using.

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I believe my Photoshop skills improved greatly whilst editing these photographs, as I now understand how to use certain filters such as lens flare, which made for a very dramatic photograph. Also, I now understand how to use the magic wand tool, which provided a brilliant alternative to the magnetic lasso tool, saving me time during my edits. Moreover, I continued to improve my use of curves to create dramatic contrasts in my images for great effect.