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I have looked over many articles to try and take photos on and I found one about local beach clean ups in my home county of Suffolk. I then looked at similar beach related articles to gather ideas about beach photography.  One article I looked at was about Britain's best beaches so it aims to promote the place and the sands.

I liked this picture due to the post-production work, for example I like how the photographer boosted the colour on the beach-hut doors to make them look even more colourful and brighter. I feel that this is important when it comes to promotion of Saunton Sands, Devon; as if it was a  a dull day people are not likely to visit. I also like how it is made to look like a foreign beach to make it look exotic and not a  standard British beach, which is also done to try and sell the beach to the picture's audience. I like the composition of the photo too, and how the beach huts are going off into the distance suggesting the beach and it's huts are going on for miles. The clouds also play an important role in the image as they are made to look fluffy to try and get an aesthetic view on the beach, however in the original picture they may have been thick letting in little sunlight but the edited version does not suggest this.

I tried to re-create this shot, as I really liked the way it showed off true British beaches and what is iconic about them. Here is my unedited photo:

I tried to show the right balance of huts and beach so that the whole concept of the news article (cleaner beaches) as well as the stereotypical view of British beaches were included.  I feel that this picture needs brighting up so the beach hut's colour are bolder and brighter which will make this image more appealing to try and promote the Suffolk coastline. I do however think  that this image shows that the beaches are cleaner and therefore will encourage tourists to come to the coast, if the post-production is successful. 

The second article I looked at was about the cleanest beaches in Britain which is extremely similar to my chosen article. Most of the pictures focused on getting the wider angle to capture the whole stretch of beach, this shows that the beaches are clean and puts  them in a lovely perspective. For example: 

This picture shows the beach of Ferring. I like this photo due to the placement of the boat in the foreground, it shows off the true British beach because it shows the heritage of Britain. It also intises people to visit Ferring due to the blue skies and long coast line, as stereotypically this is what people look for in a holiday destination along the coast. From this picture I have taken that journalistic photographs are taken to promote the place and make people want to go there, and I tried to do this when taking my pictures.

For example:

This photo shows a empty, clean and sandy Suffolk beach with a calm sea. I believe that most people will want this when they visit the sea side. This picture however does not show a blue sky like the other one, which may be a fault. I tried to make the sand more golden in post-production this is also because I wanted my photos to promote the Suffolk coast line, however this did result in the sea looking more grey and the sky becoming slightly more black, but this was due mainly the original photos as I took it on a gloomy day. If I was to re-shoot this set of photographs, I would try to go on a sunnier day, which will help my photographs become more atheistic and promotion worthy. I would also try to show the whole coastline running down the beach rather than cutting it off and I would also try looking at the beach from a lower angle to show the beach from another perspective and to make the photo more interesting.