I wanted to start my project by breaking the rules of photography. We have the freedom express ourselves in what way we want to, and this should be the same within art and photography. The rule I decided to break was the rule of manipulation because I wanted to be really creative it and see what unusal view points I could create.

Here are two mid maps full of different ideas for the manipulation shoot. Some of the main ideas I had was staging a scene, such as using tableaux photography. Another idea I had was to physically manipulate the final images by either burning them, painting over them, cutting them and destroying them in some way. However the idea that I choose to stick with was digitally manipulating an image using Photoshop and light room.

The main photographer that has inspired me for this shoot is the photographer Laura El Tantawy. I love her abstract images full of colour and unusual framing. I loved the images by Laura El Tantawy, with the abstract angles and colorful themes and I decided to use her ideas for my shoot. I wanted to focus on nature and the shadows and shapes it creates. This is my initial idea for the manipulation task, because I also plan to do some manipulation by hand using film photography, but again focusing on the abstract unseen angles.