Re-visiting Travel Photos - (U.K Part 1 - 2017 - Digital)

Welcome back to another 'Re-visiting Travel Photos' segment.

We're starting a brand new country today.

United Kingdom!

This one is special because it's actually the first country I've lived overseas in.

I mentioned a bit about this in the Sweden segment, but anyway.

Myself and Caroline left Australia in September to go and live in London for 6 months. I studied a bartender course for 1 month (E.B.S European Bartender School) and then got a job at Adventure Bar (Now called Blame Gloria) in Covent Garden.

All new to me and exciting.

These first lot of photos are actually from the first day we got to London.

8th October 2017.

We landed at Heathrow Airport and took a train to Liverpool Street Station, which you can see photographed below. All the photos taken on the first day in London, just exploring the streets and main attractions in that area.

I have plenty more photos to share from my time in London so there will be a few parts to this one.

I have several videos that I made from my time in London, so if you would like to see those, let me know and I'll link those in the next post about London.

Lets break down these photos!

Quite a few original edits are missing but we'll work our way around that.

So to get us started, I have to say the original photos were shot quite well. The settings were well adjusted for most shots. The sky being a little over exposed in some but for the most part, they are a well balanced starting palette. The white balance is pretty good and even the framing being straight enough for only minor adjustments in Lightroom.

As for the Original Edits I did; Blue tone overload!!!

It seems that I really loved Aqua in my photos, making that my top priority over white balance and skin tone.

Again, I saturated the hell out of reds, blues and yellow/orange, which if done with more care, would have looked pretty good. The whites have been muted, as well as the highlights. The white balance has been pushed warmer and seems to have made the buildings and the overall picture have a layered fade look. Almost like a peanut brown colour.

A couple of the original edits have been done pretty well though, such as:

- The Underground shot with the Yellow Line. The line centred so we can follow it down the whole picture. Red pops in the top left corner, allowing us to catch the sign.

- The girl in the Pink Robe. The shot cuts her feet out, making he appear taller than she is. The Peanut Brown fade really comes alive with the sun blasting to the right of the Red hot bus in the background.

- The lady in the Red Vest walking her dog in Liverpool Street Station. The strong colours really come together over the muted white tone. As a portrait shot, it really helps focus our attention on the subject centred at the bottom. The large sign over her head battles for attention with the bright saturated orange colours.

As for the Re-edits, I think I did a really good job on the Liverpool Street Station portrait shot with the woman walking on the right. The white tiled floors really pop, as well as the white outline on the sign, taking our attention to the orange writing on the screen.

As well as the shot of the large H&M building at the cross ways. Interesting characters at the front take our attention, and then the strong red signs on the building leading us around.

Let me know which ones you think I should add to the Digital Photography tab.

That's it for this post. Tune in Friday next week at 12 pm for another post.

See ya.

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