My final piece shows a collection of visual research about humanity’s impact on earth and digital manipulation photography which I have done in order to reach my final piece. I was trying to capture a sense of how our earth is changing by highlighting disasters such as rising sea levels and light pollution. This links to one of my artist studies, Thomas Barbey. He try’s to capture images which show two negatives within society and some which give an indication of our earth being ruined. He mainly uses black and white, which is the same as another artist reference i used, Tommy Ingberg. In contrast, my images display this idea of our earth being ruined with bright colors to attract the viewer. Similar to Tommy Ingbergs photos my final piece relates to how the people in my image could be feeling. For example, the concept of the top final piece is that our sea levels are rising and the person within the image is hiding from the camera suggesting she is ashamed to be part of society which has caused this.

The exploration of secrecy within my final piece is clearly shown by raising awareness of these environmental impacts that some people do not know about therefore they are secret to them. I used codes throughout my images to portray this sense of destruction for example the lampposts in the fantasy landscape image act as a code that we are unnecessarily building onto our land. Also, the idea of conventions has also been captured through my work. Modern day photography conventions are focused on editing and photo manipulation to create stories and make subjects more interesting. This convention is seen in much of the commercial photography that we consume daily, for example a magazine making a holiday destination look more beautiful than it actually is by enhancing the tropical colors.

A successful aspect to my final piece is that the edits are very strong and are shown of well with a simple presentation style. After having made this piece I have a better understanding of how digital manipulation images are created and how serial pictures can be achieved and used to create meaning. I think that if I were to do this piece again I could have explored with my presentation style more to perhaps create something 3D which would captivate the viewer better.