My primary inspiration for this shoot is the themes of romanticism and surrealism found within a landscape, And also using a seascape to continue the use of water throughout the book narrative. I saw an artists and I was inspired by his work and how he focuses on the beauty and mystery within the landscapes of old derelict buildings and also the lighting and composition of nature natural light. I am not only inspired by this artists work but also have the aspiration to capture slow shutter speed and long exposure images for water landscapes. Again I want to do this shoot in order to create beautiful imagery of the environment themselves which I can use in order to separate from the more surreal portraiture imagery. This shoot will be divided into two over- ruiling sections in order to capture both that of more eerie natural landscapes that have water, and then seascapes themselves. Both of which should connote different atmospheres of mystery and pain. Which both fit into that of the sublime. Not only this but the mystery aspect of the shoot itself, has successful connotations to that of the ,mystery of the sirens. Once more the almost dampness to the imagery still shows the elements of water without being too repetitive in the way it is shown. The second half of this shoot will be more focused around that of water, and sea scapes. I have spoken about this previously, with wanting to show further experimentation of shutter speeds, and also the action of water and also achieving the atmosphere I want, What time and what type of attitude and emotion I get depending on what time I go and what beach. Due to the relevancy of water to want that to be evident within the images themselves, to not overpower the images, as I am already using this as a separation from the portraiture and more developed surreal of the other sets of imagery.
My shoot:analysis : I decided to do the shoot at around 3:30-4:30, this was around sunset, and the highest the tide could be without it being too dark to actually see the water itself. To start off my three objects of my shoots, which were to get slow motion shutter speeds of the sea, and overview of the beach and as a whole the environment and lastly going into more damp areas to record the way to which the environment looks when it is more mysterious and such. For my first objective I started with the more simplistic shoot, of focusing on the area itself at hand. This being the location and atmosphere I wanted to portray. I decided I wanted to get an array of feeling that could all in some way link to romanticism. In order to do this I experimented within the amount of light I let into the images and the exposure.
For my first location of this shoot, which you can see above was a shoot focused more on the basis of capturing light in different manners, in order to evoke different types of romanticised atmospheres. We have the darker ones which connotes more of typical romanticism, and perhaps evoke emotions of pain and pleasure and an elements of nature vs humans. You too have the ability to see water within all fo these photos. This is important as it
The second shoot was much more a concentrated on an interesting feature within the landscape itself, this being rocks, or a natural composition found. I belive these images have a larger concentration of interest within the narrative of my book, and are subjected to a larger chance of correlation within my work. Unlike the previous shoot, this one is a-lot more harsh, it has a stronger structure and and intensity, it has a-lot less influence than that of the previous romanticism shoot. However my main act for this second shoot was the objective to get images which I would be able to further develop into artists work, such as colouring the rocks with rainbow inspired colours.
