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The Environment.
PPHC4002
Georgia Wynne
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Introduction to my Concept.
My Concept was to show nature returning, and growing wild. I
also wanted to show how people see it as something that isn'tbeautiful as it hasn't been sculpted and doesn't look as itshould but could possibly be more beautiful.
After looking into the Picturesque and the American West Irealised how there are many different opinions about the land
being Wildanymore. This was something that I wanted to tryand answer in my work, and if not answer at least betterunderstand myself.
To achieve this I wanted to use small fragments or weeds orovergrown areas that in my opinion look wild however still
show something beautiful about nature.
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ResearchAt first I just looked at some artist that we had gone over in some of our lectures that
had really caught my eye. Some that I did look at really helped me decide what I
wanted to focus my project on.
Henry Peach Robinson and Roger Fenton were two of the first artists I looked at and related
to my research into the picturesque. When looking into the picturesque I deicide that I
wanted to focus on showing what I considered beautiful and what people were missing.
Next I looked into the work of William Henry Jackson and Edward Weston. This furthered my
understanding into the American west and how art developed out of the Picturesque. I foundmyself relating to Westonswork and this helped me commit to my concept, and I was now
able to find visual references that would develop my concept further.
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Joe Sternfeld
Sternfeld was another
artist that I had looked
at in lectures and
wanted to find out more
about him and his work.
He photographed the
Manhattan sky line as itwas under threat of
being knocked down. He
wanted to show people
how free it had becomeand he believed that it
was a true untamed
wilderness.
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PaintersI didnt look at that many paintersthroughout my project as I dont
feel that I can get much
inspiration from them. However I
did come across some of Turners
work that I did find helpful. Flint
castle was the name of the first
image that I had looked at.Through more research into this
artist and painting I found that he
was fascinated by the power of
the sea and natural catastrophes.This image symbolises to me the
strength on nature, and how it
can over power man kind.
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Sze Tsung Leong
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Edward Burtynsky
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Henk Rensbergen
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Adam Jeppesen & Robert Adams
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Visual References
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Finding a Location
The first thing I needed to do after doing my researchwas find different locations to do test shooting. This
would help me decided on what I wanted within my
image and the composition. At first I had to research
places that had been abandoned or shut down. The
first place I looked at was Blue Town. This was asmall village where the dockyard had been shut and
the small village soon started loosing business.
After finding somewhere to shoot I then needed to go
and do some test shooting on a digital camera, this
would again help my understand how I wanted mycomposition.
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Test shooting
Some of my test image didnt work
and I didnt feel that they fitted in my
concept however I did feel that some
work so I wanted to reshoot more
locations on a film camera, and someof the same areas too.
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Constructing my image.
After deciding on locations and
taking digital test images, I thenhad to decided on what
photographic techniques I would
use to create my images. I used
only natural lighting and tried to
do all my shooting on a overcast
day as I didntwant the weather to
add another meaning to myimages. I wanted to shoot all my
images from hip height as I felt this
helped the audience engage with
the image. I also wanted to make
sure all my images related, I
decided that I was going to shoots
similar things and I decided on
railings or fences. To me this
symbolises us as humans trying to
hold nature back and the
separation between us.
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Contact Sheets
After taking my images I then
had to chose which images I
was going to use for my finalpiece and if I needed to re take
I can now see what I have to
change.
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ChangesAfter enlarging my images, I
could then tell what needed to
be changed or improved.
Some of the images that I wasgoing to use as a final piece
were to dark. This meant I had
to go back and make the
exposure shorted so that it was
slightly lighter. Also when they
were enlarged I noticed thatthe images had come out very
blue or green and made the
images look cold. When
working with a series I needed
to make sure all my images
where spot on as I didnt want
any of them to stand out more
than the rest.
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Final Three Images!
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This is the image that I felt was
the weakest and fitted least
with the series. This image is
shot with the focus in the
background, I do feel that this
works well for this image as I
wanted the audience to be
able to see the whole way
down the railing. The low
lighting doesnt distract from
the main focus of the image.
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This image out of the treewas my favourite. I felt that
the lighting was perfect and
the sky is well balanced. I
like the way that the house
and the sky blend intogether. In all the images I
tried to use symbolisation to
show the separation
between people and nature.
By using the railings ive triedto imply that the nature its
getting blocked out.
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I tried to keep the horizon
line in all of my images as Ididnt want to completely
block out the distance. I
really like this image as it
focuses on a small part of the
fence were the ivy has
broken though. By focusing in
one area for my final image it
really pushes my point about
small bursts of nature
gradually pushing though.
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Self Evaluation This biggest thing I struggled with was time management, I didntgive myself enough
time in the dark room after taking the images to work on them and get my colour and
exposures perfect. In the future I will try and set myself a time frame to make sure I
know how much time I will need and what Imgoing to be doing.
If I had managed my time better I would have been able to go and find different
locations which would have meant that I had more freedom with the content of my
images, however I dont feel that my final images have been effected by this and still
feel that they communicate my ideas as I expected.
When researching if I was to do this project again I would want to find more visual
references. I did find a few books that interested me but I manly used magazines andjournals. Having visual references always helps me communicate my ideas and gives me
new ones. Although saying this I do feel that the research I have done was very strong
and really helped me move through the project.
I found it quite difficult to find and stick to the right photographic choices for my project
that fit with my idea. Once I had taken images it became apparent to me that not all ofthe choices I had made worked together, this meant that I then had to go a re shoot to
try and make it work. The main thing was that I couldntdecide on a depth of field.
However what I have used in my series I think highlights what I am trying to say very
well.
However I do feel that all the colours and the lighting in the image all seemed to match
and worked well. All together I feel that my series showed what I wanted to say butdidntshow how well I could say it.
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