Due to my further research and theme narrowed down into the sublime and water, I decided it would be effective if I were to experiment with a whole new scenario that has a strong presence of water, and also an atmosphere that has the ability to convey the sublime itself. After my recent shoots of experimenting with identity, emotions shown under water. I believe being surrounded by it within a reservoir also links to the sublime. Not only does this apply themes of emotion, the sublime itself  and pleasure and pain, it has a natural environment which is interesting because it causes a juxtaposition to that of a Tablo effect. I wanted to further develop the colours of my images in different ways, some over-exaggerating the blue tones, and some with less saturated final effects. I believe this gives me more options and an ability to choose for my final book what looks the most effective all-together. I wanted to show different compositions and angles, some of which to create an illusion as though she is submerged whiten water, without actually having to be. I belive many of the images from this shoot have a more mysterious overall objective, I think this is to do with the strong contrasts of the light and tone, which I was able to achieve with using my own lights on the shoot. This really helped as it enabled myself to have more control over what I was taking from the tonal effects and what emotion I wanted to convey within that certain image. You could divided this shoot into four sections, as seen below. 

 

When editing the colour of these images I thought, due to her being Completely surrounded with water, it would be effective if I made the highlights into a blue tone too to mirror that id the water. Not only does this create a more surreal tone for the image itself, but it also creates a stronger structure for the images too. It would be really interesting if I got a whole image of her laying down of even standing up and was able to edit it to look as if she was lying on top of the water, or even walking on water. This too would be a more surreal shoot, but I belive it would be so successful in order to convey both the sublime, pain and mystery all into one surreal image.

I believe this photo here, conveys themes of Pictorialism, Due to the tones, eerie feel but also the connections of beauty, seen physically within a natural environment. I also discussed previously, about taking images of landscapes, in order to separate the more portrait concentrated imagery, with some powerful landscapes.

The two images above are my favourite from this shoot. This is due to the lighting on the face having such a strong contrast to the darker blue tones within the surrounding landscape, I also think the composition gives many implementations of Her too being submerged within the water. The composition is also divided into a foreground and background, centring the images and allows the proportions to look effortless and well done.

These images I wanted To show an almost empowerment and recreation of pain within the image, it connotes a sense of abandonment, and also denotes the possibility of even walking on water, or the mystery of looking out into water.

Overall I belive this shoot works well with my previous underwater pool shoot. It gives me the capability to lean more into abstract and further surreal images of throwing water and paint on the top people, bath images, sea shoots and more imagery which purposes that of  mystery, emotion, pain and beauty. I want my images to be unique. I could try and do this with further developing every shoot,  in order to show more surreal effects. I don’t think I have experimented enough yet with how I could edit images which are already quite complex, however I do believe if I develop them more I could create, interesting, emotive powerful images to do with the sublime and the effects of water.