Photoshoot 3

For my third photo shoot I plan to explore the fragility linking the relationship between human and nature, and ideologies of beauty. Doing this will allow me to develop my previous ideas further. I want to take inspiration from the photographer Andrew S. Gray who is inspired by
paintings of the old English masters  who through camera techniques and post processing have developed painterly impressionist images of both recognizable and abstract scenes. I started experimenting with this in my second photo shoot by adjusting the shutter speed when taking photographs of the reflection of a tree in moving water. Doing this made interesting shapes and lines that were blurred and that I think were effective. I want to develop this further in my third photo shoot exploring photographing landscapes and moving the camera, as well as photographing moving water and reflection. Doing this expresses spirituality in nature and the fragility through the soft blurred lines.

By trying to interpret the work of Andrew S. Gray I will be exploring abstract photographing in a different way to how I am looking at the artist Kandinsky’s work. This is because in this shoot I will focus more on landscape and emphasising the colours, rather than the shapes and details in the lines. In my fourth photo shoot I want to focus on the details of plants and water. I still want to pay attention to the textures of the branches and trees, but will focus on emphasising the fragility and the delicacy in the landscape. I also want to experiment in this photo shoot by photographing at different times of day as I want to see how photographing at dusk would be different from photographs taken early in the morning. This will allow me to create a variety of images with different levels of light.

Photoshoot 4

For my fourth photo shoot I plan to interpret the style of the artist Wassily Kandinsky who was a pioneer of abstract art, similar to my work in my first photoshoot, but developed. I want to focus on the shape and textures of plants and branches, whether that be in water or not. I want to focus on how Kandinsky argues that the impact of colour on the viewer could be two-fold; both physical and spiritual, ‘Colour is a power which directly influences the soul’. So in this photoshoot I will focus on the colour and experiment with editing them to make them resemble abstract art more. I think that emphasising the spirituality in nature in my photos will add another aspect to my project, focusing on that as well as the relationship between the self and nature.

Photoshoot 5

For one of my photo shoots I want to explore the work of Susan Derges who
specialises in camera-less photographic processes, most often working with natural landscapes. Her work revolves around the creation of visual metaphors exploring the relationship between the observer and the observed; the self and nature or the imagined and the ‘real’.

To interpret her work I want to photograph waves and ripples in water. I also want to experiment by using light sensitive paper, like she does, if I can find the materials as I think that this work help me understand how shes works. From researching photo grams of the movement of water I have found out that the process if very difficult. This may make it hard to produce work that I can use as a final outcome to my project, but I think that doing it will help with my experimentation. If i am unable to do this technique then I plan to take images of water and edit them to interpret the appearance of a photo gram.