Using the mark scheme, I intend to annotate and explore how successful or unsuccessful my work has been through the past recent works and shoot, and which areas are the primary concern where I should draw my attention and create more work accessing the highest level on the grade boundary.

Currently throughout this project I have done, around 6 shoots with all differing themes. The first shoot was one which focused upon the combination of fine art and surrealism, forming elements of natural landscape and communicating themes in such a way to place a person within a whole new world, placing people within an art work and a fine art scenario. However, the idea sounds interesting, but the outcomes, I believe, are probably too surreal, that the whole objective of fine art itself is lost. There is no real raw representation of a photography skill or observation due to the lack of narrative and emotion, and completely photoshopped and falsely developed. This shoot will definitely not make it into the final book as I believe it no longer relates to my project, and too is not my most successful work so far.

My second Shoot was my first direct observational of the beauty around the home and area I live, However, despite this shoot having some sort of relevancy to my project itself, I do not belive it is the best representation of beauty or my life. The images although along the right track just do not show a narrative construct or are successfully to my standard and objectively I believe I Would want to present.

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My next three shoots all used the same persons, it was done with three separate objectives. The first shoot, and in my opinion possibly the most successful, is a way of communicating a discussion of fluidity and structuralism, it allows a discussion between the model and the fabric itself, and an exposure and lack of identity. I believe too this shoot accompanied with the darker tonal background and the use of strong golds covering and wrapping around the body, has some if not many religious connotations, so could possibly be included within my new narrative story. My second Idea for the shoot was to show elements of chaos, within a different angles, many of which have been distorted in order to create a different persona or sorts. I wanted to use an array in order to get firstly a curved distortion that allowed an extension to his face, secondly I wanted to show a force of impact and a movement to his face, so having it pressed up against glass creates the illusion of the camera being pressed against his face. I believe this shoot was very experimental but if I tonally develop it in such a way, it could really be a successful performance of chaos, and really start to form an interesting concept of emotions. Finally I was inspired by the shoot previous ,to get more basic portraits, all with different forms of emotions in order to overlay and show a movement and struggle of inner emotions and chaos, forming a movement within the image itself. These developments are some of my favourite current work, I believe it is really interesting too see the forming of different emotional states all accompanied within one image. I belive all these three shoots, really started to help myself, learn what I can do to achieve a successful narrative to my book. It also opened up the idea to not just look at beauty but both elements, which is what I am currently looking at within reason of the church.

My most recent shoot was a long shoot which took around 2 hours, And I did this shoot in order to experiment within the different areas that I believed had the most relevancy and relation to the themes of haiku, so natural beauty within areas of minimalism. I believe this shoot was really a more successful expansion from my second shoot I had done previous. It allows more areas to focus on light and an emotional state and shows combinations of animals and people. I believe I could still carry out elements from this shoot, however, I do not really enjoy how I edited the image, they to my taste are too pastel and girlish, and I believe if I were to create more black and white imagery, it might create a more interesting narrative construct. I was recently looking at an artists who was trying to present light and darkness, and edited all their images to be a really light black and white all on black paper, and I believe this is a large central interests of mine, and I would like to produce black and whit images to possibly even be presented on black paper.

Overall I believe from my current shoot, they probably differ between different areas on level 4, nothing yet I belive is extremely successful, and I believe I need to tie the narrative concept up. However with the planning of my new shoots, I believe I could really both form the combination of all these shoots, and using the combination of light and darkness and the evolution of life, showing birth, light, and the run to death and darkness, will really help this project to prevail, As I would be able to use all of my images. I will after Easter once more look back at my work and see if my level to my mind has gotten better, and if my project is going in a successful direction.

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Born in Spain in 1881 Pablo Picasso became one of the most important art figures of the 20th century. He had the most distinct style incorporating bight colours and geometric shapes to create mesmerising paintings which challenged previous art ideas such as romanticism. Starting the Cubist movement in 1907 with his abstract portraits, he made over 20,000, paintings, sculptures, ceramics, costumes and even theatre sets over his working career. His work covered a large variety of styles making him very respected in his lifetime and only more after his death Les Femmes D’alger selling for $179.4 million in may 2015. His work along with that of Georges Braque changed the face of European art and started the avant-garde movement of cubism. It is said that their work inspired styles such as Futurism, Dada and Constructivism in other countries.

Granite is a resource in Jersey that is available in abundance and plays a key part in the structures in Jersey. Lots of houses are built with the stone but the majority of them have plaster and paint covering the granite, whereas others have the granite exposed. This shoot serves the purpose of collecting photographs of granite rock faces of different shapes and at different angles. The reason I am doing this is so that I can use the material that I produce to create a contrast with the man-made structures that I have been photographing. I am planning on continuing with the style of editing that I have been experimenting, such as double exposure and layering photographs over each other to show this contrast. The photographs of the buildings that I am comparing these rock faces against are in black and white whereas I will be keeping these photographs in colour as I believe that the natural earthy tones of the rock will help to create an effective contrast within the compositions. Ultimately, the edits will show comparisons between how shapes are formed in man-made structure against the shapes formed in natural rocks by the waves over time.

Analysis

To capture this photograph of a granite rock face I used the natural daylight from Oueisne beach where the shoot took face. This natural daylight allowed for the natural shadows and crevices within the rock face to come to light and created contrast between the different depths of the rock face. I used a 300mm lens to capture the photograph so that I could zoom in and create a close-up abstract photograph of the rock face that focused on the edges and shapes within the rock rather than the surroundings. I used an ISO of 800, an aperture of f/8.0 and a shutter speed of 1/500 when taking the photograph. The ISO of 800 is fairly high but ensures that the photograph is correctly exposed along with the quick shutter speed of 1/500 that allows the photograph to be sharp and focused when the camera is zoomed in to such an extent. The depth of field ensures that the photograph is fully in focus and is clear.

There is wide tonal range in this photographs due to the sharp edges of the rock and the natural formations and cracks. There is also a range of earthy colours throughout the photograph as some parts of the rock face are more weathered than others – this helps to create a texture in the photograph as the edges can clearly be seen as sharp and the weathering can be seen in different areas. There is also a 3D effect due to the different depths of the rock face which emphasises the shapes and shadows within the photograph. There is no repetition in structure in the photograph as there is of my photographs with man-made structures which shows the contrast between a natural structure and an artificial one.

The photo is intended for editing alongside the photographs of building faces that I have produced and will aid me in showing contrast between buildings and natural rock formations. I chose to photograph granite specifically because it is a key natural resource of Jersey and is used in lots of housing. – the idea is that by editing the granite along with the buildings it will give a feeling of peeling back the layers to reveal the building materials supporting the buildings.

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evaluation: My intinal intention with this project was the aim to be abel to show beuaty wihtin the icmplocity of naturla life, and also out daily lives, For this hsoot I had in mind a few loactions I wanted to go in order to ceate

During the early 1900’s a revolutionary new approach in art which involved the representation of reality emerged called cubism. It was elevated by artists such as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque who both used different perspectives and views of the subject into one image. This created fragmented images with an abstract tone. The name ‘cubism’ came from the geometric shapes seen in the work, it became one of the most influential styled in the 20th century. Artists aimed to show one object of figure for various view points at one time breaking away from linear perspective which had been around since the Renaissance Cubism in turn lead onto other art movements such as constructivism and neo-plasticism which also both incorporate sharp geometric shapes and outlines but in a more simple and abstract way.

This painting by Pablo Picasso named ‘girl with mandolin’ shows a fragmented version of reality. The neutral colour scheme helps us focus in on the shadows and helps the cube shapes stand out. Painting with a model in front of him his work manages to show one image from various angles all joined together to create an impossible image, one which could not be seen by the human eye.

I want to look into cubism and how the idea has ben used I photography by various artists. Photography and the editing software which is now available such as photoshop makes it a lot easier to create cubist art. Images can be cut up, re sized and re constructed creating a similar effect to those of the original cubist artists. Bellow i have collected work by various artist showing new interpretations of cubism, the first mixes mediums to create its effect. A face had been painted onto the side of the models face, one of the real eyes coincides with where the drawn on would be creating an interesting illusion reminding us of the ‘old hag and young women’ illusion which questions our perspective and view of different content. The middle image is by Nigel Tomm and show and crumpled and distorted magazine page. His work tackles the idea of perfection displayed in the media by models and celebrities and follows similar conventions to cubist art.

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Overall my final images turned out exactly the way I wanted them too, as I followed what I put into my action plan to the word as I knew back then that these techniques would provide the details that I wanted.

The photoshoots went exactly to plan and gave me more than enough material to play with in my edits, by using the figures and parts of the images such as branches and rocks to move around and space in my images.

The shapes and 3d edits together provided the extra colours in my final images that weren’t expected from my action plan, but in my opinion this made my images better in terms of visual aesthetics.

After doing those edits, creating the tear like cuts with the magic wand tool in photoshop worked perfectly and provided the exact details I needed for my images, if I were to have used straight line cuts it would have looked odd and out of place so i feel these worked well.

After these I overlayed some over contrasted and brightness, black and white images over the top of the cut edits to create even more detail over the already very detailed images I have made.

Finally my final pieces look exactly how I wanted them to look from my drafts, if not better as the space I have put in between the images has given the smaller images the space to show off those as well. But also as both final pieces are spaced in different orders it also provides an interesting layout for the viewer to look at.

In order to get a much better understanding of how Jersey stands in terms of its statistical goings-on, I decided that it would be a great idea to look into the statistical data provided by Jerseys government in terms of social factors such as employment, trade, housing and population. Having the knowledge of these factors within the local society will give me more ideas on how to approach this project and on how Jersey is linked with the rest of the world through various aspects. Overall allowing me to back up my initial concepts on how to approach the project as a whole. Here are just some visual sets of data such as graphs/tables that I came across and looked into when doing this research…

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What I can quite simply conclude from the data which I have looked at is that 1. population in Jersey is rapidly increasing and is projected to continue in this way 2. Jersey is becoming more and more of a diverse and multicultural society as time goes on (connecting it even more with the world than ever) 3. Over time Jersey’s leading sectors/industries of trade have changed, but currently Jersey’s most predominant sector is the financial and legal sector which takes up 22.6% of Jersey’s economy and employment. I believe that is would also be interesting if in some of my photo-montages I could incorporate figures and statistics from these sets of data in order to give subtle meanings within some of the pieces which I produce.

I will start off by doing some market research as what is considered to make people most happy and what people think is most beautiful about themselves, And ways in which I could evoke these emotions and objects through my own work. I will do so by asking many people where I live and my friends, and possibly too looking into past research across the globe, and if what we see as beautiful is dependent on our culture and how much money and wealth we grew up with. This could also be 5 questions in relation to beauty and happiness. These questions will be

1.How would you describe beauty?

1st person: an individual idea that is a cliches within the eye of the beholder. 2nd: It is a construct of an individuals happiness. 3rd: something you personally believe to be over exceptional a personal belief 4th: well… specific to a person and what makes someone happy.

2. What or who is the most beautiful person of thing you have ever seen?

1st person: I believe the most beautiful thing I have ver seen is a new born baby, and puppies, innocent new life, something which is full of hope. 2nd: I think…the most beautiful things are the masters of art and architecture. 3rd: A landscape an idealistic landscape 4th: in a landscape the sun, nice weather , a reflection of happiness, you feel happier

3.What brings you happiness?

1st person: living in the moment, the comfort of my family and the stimulation of books. 2nd: Living without stress. 3rd: food, art my friends and sleeping 4th: music pop and a singalong

4.Where is the one place across the world that brings you the most joy and why?

1st person: Jersey, it is home and if it is beautiful, I love jersey. 2nd: being at home in jersey. 3rd: my grandparent house in France 4th: Corbier, it was were my pops used to visit form the age of 19-79

5.what are you most grateful for?

1st person; I am most grateful for love. 2nd: Health 3rd: being born into a privileged society. 4th; family friends and opportunities.

This is not only an insight to the subjectivity once again of the fine art of beauty, but the imagination of each individual mind. Due to the results from this, I believe people in jersey especially are able to see their privilege and do not take for granted, they love landscape new life innocence and health, to my mind they have perfectly described what theatre of life describes, they turn personal connections and emotions into locations. Also something which I find very interesting is that no one said beauty is people, most people associate within a landscape something they love or an experience, and I think this allows myself to see I am working in the right direction.

light

So far my project has been about the bad is of looking more towards accessing different versions of light and more abstract communicates of nature, I believe this could perhaps be one of the large influences of my book. If I was to start breaking doen my project into four key factors is light even make the capturing of these factors easier to see.

Light is the most important basis of my project as whole. Light has the power to present and change how something or someone looks completely and whole. Because of this trying to photography light is an interesting and also a very applicable way which I could look into capturing my own work. Due large areas of my work begin more prominently focused on the presentation of landscape and flowers and natural beauty, many fo the shoots will be taken during mid day, this is interesting as this is possibly the hardest time in order to couture an achieve the most successful photos. Mid day light can be harsh and increase strong shadows and strong inflictions of heavy light, making anything look worse and showing an inability to really see the piece itself. However I too belive I could use this as an advantage. The over- exposure of light can also be seen as a heavenly and almost romantic way in which you can see something, daylight can elevate an image and bring about an almost type of romanticism. I must be aware o the image I am trying to capture and the effect that I want. However I believe with the availability to change the iso and exposure I should just have a large range of capabilities with what I am able to capture within my work.

This image in particular inspired me as their is a mystery, lack of identity yet still and evident and frankly obvious sense of beauty. Perhaps I too could bring someone when photographing my resivour shoot in order to help show copious amounts of ways I could express beauty within the water, landscape , light and yet almost the person themselves. Another part of light every different some this, is the slo shutter speed high exposure of night time shoots, trying to show a diffuse of movement is hint the light. I believe this shoot is also extremely important because you are theoretically appointing with light itself.

rain

Rain as natural element go is probably the most negative one when comparing it with its connotations and associations of sadness and dull. however this is why I think it would be so beneficial to capture it as an elements of beauty, and perhaps even happiness. Rain as we know already can be seen as a very romantic elements, where people fall in love of where peoples emotions are susceptible to the most vulnerability. Due to rain falling and being seen in so many different forms, the ability for this shoot is so much. I want to show different variations of how one elements can be shown romantically and to be an expression of self beauty and or a reflection. Perhaps I could even add in people to make the photos themselves more poetic as a whole composition itself.

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I belive using the way different ways of tracing rain and using a piece of glass as the first shoot, to be able to show the droplets of water. Secondly I believe I am able to capture a more heavenly approach to the done full of water if I were to go out a night whilst it was raining and shine a torch in order to highlight and show a strong bright light, capturing the soft little sports of the other after.

Fire

fire is the subject which is probably the less applicable shoot for my project itself, as it is the most tricky to photograph and also as I do not. know how fire will directly fit into my narrative. My artists ads their own personal emotional influence on what they believe to be beautiful. Fire is a natural element which causes happiness but mostly chaotic fear, however if I were to concentrate more on the contrast between finding life within the chaos and pain of the world and still showing elements such as fire to be beautiful, it would benefit me to do this shoot. Despite water having sad connotations, it does posses the power to kill, unlike, it is not the same as the aggression and mass pain fire can size to cause. Water is meant to be beautiful even when drowning, however, fire is smoke, burning and a strength which I think people find hard to romanticises. The closest aspect tot his element I could fine within my work, is accessing the ability to capture light in such a bright or vicious way.

I do belive it would be interesting to experiment within the way you could show the same element of attitude of fire without the same colour tones, because of this I chose the image above as I believe it has the same movement and hectic feelings and attitudes that could too be seen within the elements of a real fire. I belive it could be the colour connotation are the areas which effect the negative feelings towards the aspect of fire, so changing the colour could make it beautiful without having to be over aware off the aggression of violence ability of the fire itself.

Wind

Wind is a natural element which has the ability to form and create new compositions, it allows something that used, to be still or static with hardly any life of movement to be a free flowing. wind is an element which can be described in many different mannerism ‘ a sea breeze’ a hurricane. These differentiating aspect create the difference between love and fear, which is interesting as this too has connotations between that of beauty and chaos. However I believe you could use the power of wind in order to create a beauty and movement within flowers and natural elements. in relation to god, wind could be perceived as an element of the trinity, due to this much of the experience seen to be a gust of wind in many religions is perceived to be an act of great power.

This shoot is similar to my first shoot, focus on blurring of the elements of the power of wind, and creating a fluidity within a solid structure, perhaps I could add elements from my pre existing shoots to help me discover and develop additionally shoots I could take in order to access a new more religious value to my work.