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ESA // Overall Project Evaluation

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I felt that the exam title ‘Variations and Similarities’ fitted my style of photography well because it meant I was able to explore landscape photography and produced a wide range of images that looks at the movement of the sea. I found that this project was very successful because it allowed me to explore the beauty of nature, and also explore the science behind tidal movements and what forces have an impact on the sea. For my final presentation, I have decided to present eight (four sets of two) of my images in window mounts, size A4. I have used a black mount board because I felt that this framed my images without taking anything away from the photographs. I have also decided to create a photo book which I plan to capture the feeling of movement throughout.

The key link between my project and the exam theme ‘Variation and Similarity’, was the contrasting images and the differences between high and low tides. The photographers that inspired me throughout this project were Hiroshi Sugimoto because of his simplistic ocean landscape photographs, and Michael Marten‘s contrasting images of landscapes and different times and tidal levels.

If I was to do this exam unit again I would keep to the same concept because enjoyed being able to explore tidal movements as a whole as well as landscape and movement photography. However, I would want to extend my photo shoots so that I could produce a wider variety of contrasting sets of images for my final presentation. Having a wider variety of images would allow me to create a final presentation and photo book at a higher quality. Also, I would include some of the research I found and this would allow me to develop the text elements in my photobook.

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ESA // Photobook Specification

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How you want your book to look and feel:

Paper and ink: I will be using standard 80# paper and coloured ink for my photobook, I think that the coloured ink is important for the images because it helps provide a clear distinction between high and low tide, it also helps the vibrancy for the water.

Format, size and orientation: The photobook will be a square, 7in x 7in.

Binding: I am going to use a soft cover for my photobook because I want to create a feeling of movement throughout.

Title: I have chosen the literal title, ‘Tidal Movements’

Design and layout: I am planning to use a variety of image sizes throughout my photo book. The majority of the photobook pages will have single images, however, I am wanting to have some breaks to make it visually more interesting, therefore some pages will have grids of four images, or I will have some pages with two images to a page. I am also planning to have a double-page spread of a panorama. I am not planning to have any foldouts or inserts.

Editing and sequencing: I have chosen images that I feel flow throughout the photo book, the images I have chosen I feel create movement and therefore suggest a flow throughout the photo book.

Images and text: The text that I am using within my book is to show where the photographs have been taken, and whether the image is showing the low or high tide.


Developing, Evaluating, Experimenting

ESA // Presentation Ideas

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Window mounts:

I am wanting to present my images on a black background and in window mounts. I have looked at different layouts that I could present my images, including; each set of images being in their own window mounts, each image being in seperate window mounts, if I have four images to one board or if I join two boards together and have all eight images presented together.

I have decided to present my images on two boards

Evaluating, Final Outcomes

ESA // Final Photographs

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These are my final outcomes:

I chose these two contrasting images below because they were taken from the same place and they also had nothing cluttering the image such as signs or cars, and therefore the focus of the image is soley the tide and the lighthouse at Corbiere. I also feel that because there is a clear difference between the images because of how much the tide hides and changes.

The images below aren’t as clear as the ones from the Corbiere Lighthouse (above). However, I do feel that they show a clear contrast between the high and low tide even if it isn’t as obvious at first.

These four images below I find show a very clear and distinct change, and the high and low tide contrast is obvious. Although, if I was to take these images again I would have taken the high tide images on another day where the high tide didn’t line up with sunset because I have ended up with a distracting glare from the sun. Another thing I would change is the amount of signs, cars and groups of people I have captured in shot. I feel like this may draw the viewer’s eye away from the focus of the image.

Analysis, Experimenting, Recording

ESA // Edits

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For my edits I decided against doing anything drastic with my images and instead I stuck to cropping the images and adjusting the angle of the images to ensure that the horizons lined up with the low and high tides.

For example without editing my images look like this:

There is a clear difference between the images, the lighthouse is darker on the high tide image due to the difference in natural lighting. I have also taken the image wihtout zooming in therefore the proportions are different and the bunker and cliff edge in the forground of the high tide image is more noticble and is the subject of the image which is leading the viewers eye away from the lighthouse. Although it is not an obvious difference there is a gap between the horizon in the low tide image and the horizon in the high tide image.

In order to have these images line up and ensure that the obvious and visible difference is the change in tides, I have edited the images so that you can see that the horizons line up and the images and more in proportion with one another. I have cropped the bunker and cliff edge in the foreground out to also ensure that the main subject of the images is the lighthouse and the tidal changes.

I repeated this process on my other images.

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ESA // Experimentation

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For my first experiment with my images, I decided to create panoramas. In order to do this I had to go and take enough images to be able to create a seamless panorama. To create the final panorama I used the option in photoshop, ‘photomerge’, by doing this it created a clear image with no visble breaks or repetitions within the image.

Images used:

Low Tide

High Tide

Using a tripod I took a seperate image as I moved 180 degrees from East to West of the beach, by doing this it meant that I had enough images to create an accurate photomerge to create a successful panorama.

My outcomes:

Low Tide

High Tide

For my second experimentation I decided to show a clear difference between low and high tide by cutting the photographs in half and presenting them next to each other as one whole image.

Corbiere


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