For this shoot I wanted to capture the repetition of the view that is shared by everyone all around the world should they come to the edge of their country/island. Thus view being the ocean. I wanted to travel around the island I live on capturing the repetitiveness of the view experienced when i reached the edge of the land. I think through this particular shoot I want to create a sense that, regardless of where we are, we could all go to a large body of water and see the same thing. The fact that we would share the same visual experience regardless of if we did that now, in the past or in the future. Our internal experience stimulated by the view will be more individual and vary from person to person. 

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Edits

Overall, I am very happy with how this shoot went and even more so with the edits. Through the editing process, which I undertook in Adobe Lightroom I have increased the saturation of the blues and made the images pop by increasing highlights, whites, clarity and contrast. Also, I cropped each image to ensure that the horizon splits the image in half directly through the center like Sugimoto has done within his project. I took this series of images across a whole day which allowed for a change in weather and lighting, altering the aesthetics of the images slightly. This links to my previous study of Sugimoto and Monet’s hay stacks paintings in the way they focus on the depiction of light.