Whilst in Bristol I saw an opportunity to continue to experimentation with GIF’s, along most streets, outside each house were a collection of recycling boxes. The pavements seemed to be covered in these boxes, presumably because it was collection day however it did ruin the overall look of the area. There were a mix of green and black boxes containing various packagings to be recycled, for example Glass, plastic bottles and cardboard. I decided to take pictures of these boxes from a birds eye angle framing the rectangle shape in the centre. I was interested in the variety of thing in the bins and how they differed from house to house and how they reflected the lifestyle of the people living in each house. I cropped all these photos to the same size and orientation so that they all followed the same shape conventions. I then proceeded to bring them into photoshop and turn them into a GIF, each frame lasting 0.1 of a second. The final GIF flicks through the photos showing the variation and similarity between each recycling bin.

The final outcomes of this project are going to have two overlapping images of the same location, in contrasting weather to create an image which is similar but greatly different at the same.

For this shoot I went to four different locations around the island, for this shoot I need to take two sets of images, essential a before and after set of images. The first set of images are going to be of icon jersey landscapes on a day where the weather isn’t the nicest, so cloudy and windy. The next set of image are going to be taken during the summer time, when the weather is nicer. I will then get these two images and create images similar to the one above. Overall I think that the shoot went really well, from the shoot I got a range of different types of images, some of them the weather is very dark and cloudy whereas in others the landscape is very dramatic and almost looks like and image from the Romanticism period.

These images are only first experiments, to figure out which designs/patterns look the best, I have overlapped some of the designs with other images from the shoot to have an idea of what the final outcomes of the project are going to look like.

My Plan for my shoots and my edits are as follows:

I am going to take 3 photoshoots so that I can use three different locations as I want to create my own landscapes by filtering 3 photos. The first location I am going to take photos at is the woods behind Longueville Manor known as Swiss Valley so I can catch twigs and branches in the top areas of my photos. The second location will be Le Mare beach so I can get a rocky area with some flat parts to provide a stable base for my edits. For the third location I want something modern to be a part of my edits so the natural things like trees look like they are growing in this place, so I will be going to Pier Road Car Park for the blocky effect I want in my edits.

For my edits I will be doing images that comprise of 3 filtered images that have been colour balanced to a reddish yellow, using shadows, midtones, and highlights, and by adjusting the opacity accordingly and increasing contrast and brightness, so that all 3 images can be seen clearly.

I will then be putting variating coloured circles over the faces that are in my photos using the app Sketchbook.

After that I will use the app XstereO Player to do my stereographs in landscapes and portraits, red and blue, and green and magenta. so I have many variations of colours and combinations.

Once I’ve done that I will start cutting my stereographed edits into tear like parts using the magic wand tool, so I can move them across to a black landscape base and create a collage like piece.

And finally after all that I will be using images from my shoots to turn into very contrast and brightness black and white images, to then overlay them on top of the cut images to add even more detail.

Here is my photo-shoot in which I planned to record the 171 postcards which I bought with the intention of using in this project (Plan on previous post) I believe that this shoot was successful as I closely followed my photo-shoot plan and was lucky enough to have a good source of natural sunlight on the day which I did the shoot. These postcards show the connections between Jersey as the rest of the world which I intend to explore with this project and therefore I thought they were very appropriate to use in photo montages and collages. The dated aesthetic running through the majority of these postcards is firstly something which I believe successfully shows the history of development due to modern systems around the world. And secondly I believe these visual qualities will make for an unusual and interesting outcome.

How, Who, When, Where and Why? 

To start my project I intend to explore ideas of sublime and beauty within nature, focusing on emphasising light and fragility within the natural world. I want to be able to express an emotion through my photos, whether that be using shapes, shadows, reflections and light. 

The photographer Rinko Kawauchi is an artists who interested me, inspired by Japanese art and her ethnic religion, looking at portraying nature in a feminine light. This is where I will explore ideologies like beauty and the sublime and styles of Japanese art, as well as form and shape related to femininity. When I do a shoot in this concept I will emphasise the light, similar to Kawauchi.

I also want to explore uses of colour and texture and the opposing shapes and forms that are associated with the ideas of masculinity and femininity. For example to explore stereotypical views on masculinity i could photograph geometric bold structures in the urban environment, I could juxtapose these images to natural ones to represent stereotyped femininity. I will focus on soft shapes in comparison to angular ones and create a contrast between the two, perhaps looking for similar shapes within the images to connect them.
I am also inspired by the artist Meghann Riepenhoff who produces seascape without a camera looking at the tidal patterns made by ocean waves creating more abstract images. She describes her photos as a 'series of camera-less cyanotype'. I am interested in exploring her work and interpreting it as for my political landscape project I explored ideas of light sensitive paper and cynotypes and tried to recreate them. Exploring that in this project will follow on from my previous work and gives me a better understanding. 
The work of Meghann Riepenhoff also links to the work of Susan Derges which is another photographer I will take inspiration from in my project. She also specialises in cameraless photographic processes, most often working with natural landscapes. Exploring the movement of water and the texture it creates is an concept i want to explore in my project.To interpret their work I will try to create cynotypes myself. I want to do this as I think it creates an interesting aspect to my project where they are photos that aren't taken by a camera, creating an effect that wouldn't be produced with a digital images.  

Example Meghann Riepenhoff Work: 

Example of Susan Derges:

As I continue through my project I will develop it further by evaluating what I have done successfully and work from that. I will start by exploring shapes and forms within nature that soft and rounded linking the ideas of beauty from a feminine point of view in my first shoot.  I then plan to explore the movement of water/ocean in my second shoot and will continue by researching cyantypes by Susan Derges and  Meghann Riepenhoff to do an interpretation in my third shoot. I then want to focus on abstract shapes looking at light and shadows within a landscape in my forth shoot. I am particularly interested in exploring nature and beauty as I consider it something that influences me as an individual.