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Joel Sternfeld

As cities gradually formed newer building and more industrial sites are formed in order to produce and cope with the necessities that are essential for the growing population,The new trphogrohics tarted to raise  attention Joel Sternfeld (born  June 30th 1994,)Started his fine art color photographer ,he usually works within large formats of documentary picture from within the united states.He became a highly respected artists throughout his medium for  color and his many works in the permanent collection off MOMA within New York City.  Sternfeld  started teaching at Dartmouth college and teaches photography  after he himself learning all about color theory. Sternfeld’s most successful book was American Prospects and explored the irony of human altered landscapes. Sternfeld has many different aspects of exhibitions in order to try and capture and represent people in different manners, furthermore  his work was very much influenced by the new trophgorhics,his exhibition was called the American prospects and had many different aspects o human life within nature.

I chose Joel  Sternfeld due to his edge of nature but how he looks at the image as if it is a a whole set prepared image.I also liked his color within the image and how it compliments the setting.He has such a wide shot it enables a connection with the whole area of the image and a successful composition.

Mind map

All these images above all successfully convey the theme of presence of people the evolution of society and how nature has a mass significance.He has a clear color variation due to the type of surrounding scenario that the  photographer is in.

Best image analysis

This is my favorite image, this is due to the way in which you can see the effect that humans have and a certain type of deterioration to nature you can see the slow development of man made houses falling down and the gradual spread of rubbish mixed within the nature.the composition  is interesting in the way of how the tree is closest to the  foreground and has a large area of significance. Then you have the petrol station that too is falling down.conceptually he wanted to connote how people use land and then leave and what they leave behind is a constant effect and to the defect of how people abuse nature.

My idea for the shoot

His images have a very strong aspect of planned or at least  a strong com-positional aspect,So with my small experimentation of his work i too would want to show these aspects to create a successfully image.I also like his use of color and the way in which it is somewhat removed but also very much  present within the large tonal range of colors.Areas In which I could take this work ,All these photos have a strong resemblance to isolation and a removal of presences themselves,due to this I will go to remote areas in which there is a high presence of nature and a lack of city scape of fast moving action.

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architectual,night and panoramic Shoot development

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My shoot development

For my shoot I wanted to continue using my artists inspiration of the new topographic’s and of rich urban landscapes but a clear view or traditionalism and nature aspect contrasting within the background of the image.For my photo shoot I will try and visit Scrapyards, building sites, cranes, restoration yards, derelict ruins,additionally to this I will also look for any area that has pipework or a clear decoration of man made activity.

For my second artist who has more of a humane feel to the area and the way in which nature and buildings has a strong relevance to peoples lives I will photograph shops and long distance views of roads and such,this could also be seen within theaters and large populated areas.For the title and main inspiration for my shoot I have chosen the themes of juxtaposing urban and isolated compared to sky and habitats. This means that my images will have a strong sense of new upcoming society and how it can be isolated from other areas and a clear vision of separation of lack of nature within that area.

How I will edit my images

Once again I used HDR in order to get a  crisp image with lots of light and vibrancy of color and or tone.I also want to use some of my own development ideas  such as slow shutter speed to capture an urban effect during nighttime,this can be done from being high up above traffic and brightly lighted town and also within the areas and also develop the  focused nature aspects,these would look like:

I chose this image as an example due to its high over towering view so allowing a clear focus on light but also how nature is wrapped around all human light and presents clear lines and paths within the image itself. 

Secondly I thought this was an accurate perception of my idea due to the large presents of nature within the center of the urban landscape,it shows a subtle formation of the two elements.

panoramic development

Additionally  I also want to capture panoramic shoots,i will achieve this by developing my images into one after taking a course of many over an area with small movements in between. I would want to displays this in a straight forward lines and then secondly with separations of lines and cuts to show repetition of a scene and lastly a divided area in which i can present the image in many different levels such as:

I will still be  focusing on my theme of urban isolation contrasting with nature and sky,this allows me to use all my techniques and capture all these themes in different mannerisms. Overall I  still want to use the same elements and angles that the new topographic achieved but in a more  modernized and inventive mannerism.

Edits:

I decided to divided my edits into color and black and white dependent on what is the most appropriate and effective.I really swatted to nature the contrast between he deep architectural lines and with colour on the background.

first shoot:day time shoot

 

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I think this piece is really effective as its composition is centred and then further enhanced by the light  background of the image. it also has a structure  due to the ladder , but has  a delicacy to the line lines reflected within the water and the rhyme and form that bring to the piece itself. 

all of this images above I clearly wanted to focus on stature and how it can be enchanted by a natural background,it creates an effect of nature formed within a harsh man made structure.

further editing: 

with this image I wanted  to form a romanticised background and then form this with the architectural structure from this shoot.i do think though it is not as effective as the small detailed liens when edited do not achieve the same realism and are not as effective.

here I wants to from an interesting architectural piece using a repletion and building using lines to from a large building going through he centre,i think this makes an interesting composition yet still forms a line and stature overall. 

wihtin this edited I wanted to try and from both interesting  clouds to show the strong presence of nature and then also from and lit in the industrial aspects of human development that I wanted to capture.

night shoot:slow shutter speed light capture

 

I wanted to experiment within night shoot in this method as it is more abstract and would be effective in an overlay within other images too.it also allowed more to capture the night city scape whilst also forming a slow light pattern.This method also means I am able to from the shape and not dependent on wirer the light is already.

panoramic development:

I did not take many sets of image such as this is I knew I did not want to develop within this method, although for my final I think the overall prevention would look successful hung in size order alongside each other.

Overall analysis

overall I think I have developed within many methods and shoots and now I am able to see and decided what will be the most successful and effective within the future  of my work.

Analysis

Image anlysis

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This photo was produced by Stephen Shore,And was taken in Beverly Boulevard and La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, California, June 21, 1975, 1975, chromogenic color print,This image is a key example of the movement that started  within the US from’The New Topographic’s’ .It presents many different elements to create a finished overwhelming and successful piece that identifies America at the time and the presence of nature within peoples everyday lives. the foreground shoes a complex and dynamic range of petrol stations which relate to the conceptual thought to clearly demonstrate America,this is done throughout at the time Americans occupied most of their time within travel and the exploration of the world in which they lived,the movement of the cars and a long road represent this theme successfully,This at the time was seen to be the American dream wihtin society and a large social reform to see the world as it was prenstly and stop working continuously.Furthermore the large signs create lines which are all parallel so attract you attention, the consistent colour impact of  blue,white and red emphasis the nationalism throughout the image.The background of the image is done in order to show that the low horizon of nature so presenting the vast mountains to loose their strength and be seen as small and inferior to that of the man made industrials. The bussy format is done to again show an element of line throughout the image and present  the area not showing the whole of the place.The perspective of the piece is clearly unplanned, this creates a unique quality and accurate representation  of the town itself, its vast cluttering shows a very humanness to the image which at the time was very rare to the clear majority usually  seen within landscape photography.The wide camera format allows a sense of size of comparison  throughout the piece

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Robert Adams

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Robert Adams

Adams was an American photographer who had a significant focus upon changing landscape of the American west,his work first started to become relevant within the 1970’s due to the success of his book ‘the new west’.The artist brown on May 8th,1937 was part of a family having himself a brother and sister,when he was younger he was infected with polio and had harm to the left side of his area and hand but soon recovered, but later in life suffered form other medical problems due to the previous illness. he had a very nature enforced childhood going on many walks accompanying his father, he also worked in a mountain national park in Colorado,and went mountain climbing and then so start visiting art museum with his sister.Not knowing what he wanted  to do he continued to take English and get his ph. D in English In 1965,he soon married to Kirsten who too and similar interests whiten art and nature. he taught English in Colorado college ad then soon as able to buy his first camera.

He mainly focus more upon taking many images of landscapes of nature and architecture. he learned many of his  photography knowledge form a professional photographer local to him named ‘Myron Wood’.Soon his love for photography spread and he became a full time photographer.His subject matter was ‘vastness,its sparse beauty and its ecological fragility’ manner of his work was produced throughout varying shades if grey and what has been lost remains, and a brilliant subtext to everything.

favorite image analysis

I chose this image due to the intriguing way in which Adams was able to capture the  strength and dominance within the clouds and the deep contrasting tones from within the background trees.you are clearly able to see the way in which people or  juxtaposing to the man made metal equipment. There is a sense of irony with the nature in the background and the way in which the people are more occupied within the pool and not the natural lakes and such.There is also almost a theme of segregation within the communities and the continuation of fences and boarder in which they are surrounded.The close up gate allows a redistricted in which we are viewing the people. All the over exposed lighter tones also have connotations to a more harsh lined  industrial area and shows elements of possibly not being safe.It shows a strong contrast within the beauty of nature and the urban life in which these people are living and choosing to do so.I think it is interesting in how the photographer chose to take the image when no one is in the pool,it shows a sense of reason to the image and the joy they should be having being in the pool but the rugged nature of pool is perhaps a preventative,perhaps this is to demonstrate the gradual separation between people and nature.

Mind map

Many of his works shows a strong industrial structure  presents in the foreground and a gradual deterioration into the nature based areas of his work. There is also a large surrounding space to present that their is an effect go nothingness without human evolution to buildings  and Inhabitance.

Ideas that will use in my work:

My main attraction to his work is how he has many layers of attention to the image itself and how it consistently evolves to create many interesting aspects throughout the original image,secondly I would want to expand on the use of persona and what people are doingerive attention to the image itself,and what the meaning of the contrast to nature would in fact be

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The New Topographics

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What is the new topographic?

Influential movement of many artists, many of their works documented the handling and evolving of the natural landscape to be perceived as more mediated urban landscapes. New topographic  was a term colonized by William Jenkins in 1975,it was created in order to describe a group of American photographers such as Robert Adams and Lewis Baltz, these are people whose images all had a sniper-like banal aesthetic in that they were formal,mostly black and white print of urban landscape. All the photographers within this movement were inspired by man made  subject matter; this included parking lots, suburban housing and warehouses and were all depicted with beautiful austerity.they were trying to find the beauty within man made landscape and urban areas which were not commonly at the time published.

What is the meaning of this movement?

The eroding of natural landscapes and demonstrating an unease of industrial development within the world. The movement started with an exhibition o this urban work to have a large ripple effect on the whole medium and genre of landscape photography,the wanted to emulate a spirit and atheistic throughout their world, three of the artists within this moment had such a significant impact beyond just within America they  were later  commissioned by the French government. Their work was said to capture “stopped of any artistic frills and reduce to an essentially  topographic state, conveying substantial amount is visual information but eschewing entirely the aspects of beauty,emotion and opinion.”

What is the movement a reaction to?

They wanted to present a critical eye on what American society had become and depicted urban and suburban realities under changes in a detached approach.

How has photography  responded to this moment?

There was a mass movement that evolved from natural landscapes to  capture urban cities and the underlining meaning of the people and aesthetic within this area.It shows how society was continuously changing from beautiful to man made  objects. It presents a literal movement and due to this continuation of movement and cityscape it enables the movement to continually inspire documentation.

What is the sense of beauty in the banal ugliness functional land use?

The functional land use presents an angle of pure unedited sense of beauty and a piece of art which is consciously existing within a community of people and nature.It captures a reflection of people and where they live and a sense of belonging of this importance. Every image conveys information about the area and why it is important to the people present.

 

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romanticised landscapes final images

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Final ideas for my shoot:I was inspired by Ansel Adams and Fay godwits work, this is due to the way they both dramatically emphasised the amount of beauty but also movement and sense of attention within their piece,They continually did this by their high or mid perspective.Also the use of their dark contrasting tones wihtin the pieced how they continually evolve and move throughout the piece in order to show a sense of unity to the piece as a whole. Furthermore I was also inspired by the way in which they all used lines in order to draw a sense of direct view to a specific part of the images altogether.

when taking my images I focused  more upon the dramatic Skys and a contrast of softer Skys and an idealised beauty compared to a power possessive sky.I also had an aim to to take images of the landscape and direct lines continually going through although these were not my strongest outcomes.I edited the images with some in colourful saturation and others in more tonal ranges to show a large to relation to that of the artists.I did look for many leading lines and I was able to find some but they did not correctly show a continuation in the way I would expect so were not as successful as the coastline images.

Above you can see the contact sheet of green landscapes and also the different angles of sunsets.I chose to take the photos at golden hour in order to see the changing and dramatic colours but also the darkness approaching from the right side within my images.It brings a warmth to many of the images and a great depth of colour.

you are able to see the before and after previous to editing the images and how I was able to enhance the colour to show a better detail of clouds and how to allow the reflection to be more vivid in its tone.

Here you are able to see I edited my images by enhancing the saturation and the colour of the piece,I chose to enhance the colour due to being able to see more drama and a stronger contrast between sides of the image, the juxtaposition of the lighter left side and the dramatic clouds and castle on the right.Additionally I edited the image this way due to the mirroring effect in the water surface and it looks as if a continuation of the sky.

I wanted to use the weather to evoke a sense of atmosphere snd emotion,I wanted their to be a relationship fo love within the coloured image and a sense of movement of light and attention,this is due to the stereotypically romantic choice of lighter colours and also how the sun is used to enhance from a stutter and the reflection of the sea shows a sense of peace altogether throughout the image itself. My aim was to capture the coastline and the sand dunes and how they are continuously evolving to capture different compositions and effects of light. 

overall I think this is my strongest image due to the lens of illusion and gradually forming power throughout the image.I wanted to show an understanding of reflections rising  the composition of the piece and how light can be used to suggest from and also movement to the piece itself.I took this image knowing I wanted both the light sense of warmth and other the authority of the castle and harsh clouds I used the technique of getting very high but lowering my camera so everything in the image looks level but additionally only capturing the reflection and the sky itself. I enhanced the exposure so the light so was able to progress throughout the image and used a wide angle lens in order to capture the whole angle of the image and see the size and power .These images are successfully romatisized landscapes although not edited within similar style due to the colours further down I edited my images tonally with a warmth in order to emphasis the artists styles too.  within the images above I wanted to capture a romanticised landscape in a much more vivid and and poetical extreme of colour caught within the golden hour, although I also wanted to capture a sense of clam that will soon be abounded due to the oncoming stormy strength of the high side and cloud formation.

These last images I edited in order to show the light and dark within the image and show a stinger relationship to the artists themselves. It connotes a much more stormy atmosphere all together but still effectively shoes the beauty within the landscape,the cloud in the last piece has such. strong depth and overwhelming power throughout the piece itself ,this was important because contextually it commands attention and shows how one beach can have such beauty and also dominate representing the power that nature has over people.

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Fay Godwin

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Goodwin was born in Berlin,and was the daughter of a British diplomat who was married to an american artist.In her later work of photographing writers she too married one called Tony Goodwin,and then later had two sons.later on in her life she become very ill in which she blamed drugs making her weaker every day. Goodwin then died on 27th May in 2005 at the age of 74

Fay Goodwin is the artist in which I am going to focus my attention of methods onto .Goodwin moved to London in order to become a portrait artist and even more significantly in order to capture famous artists and writers.Typically she captured the people in her own home and even soon herself became a published author.Her book was based upon the oldest road and ridge-way and so making her also a prolific landscape and the nations best known landscape photographer and was critically acclaimed for her early and mature work by the sens of ecological crisis present and how it made a Adriatic difference in the 1970’s. Later in her career she also started taking many images of natural forms and had many major exhibitions that toured nay areas around the world.

I chose Goodwin due to her stunning black and white landscapes of the coast and countryside and how this would be achievable to re-create and expand on in jersey.she was continually inspired when walking around and her pursuit of landscapes have taken her to highly remote areas of the British landscape but no doubt producing many beautiful pastoral scenes and contrasting urban landscapes.To me the way in which captures color and light within her images.Many of her work are captured within woods or well known british landscapes.

This is my favourite piece that Godwin has produced.I chose this piece due to the way in which the light captures the presence of nature and highlights the detailed aspect of the image,  furthermore the way in which the light also has a sense of structure in the image itself.You are able to see the contradictions line wihtin the tress that form a delicacy to the piece and how this is juxtaposing to the more rugged and textured floor but how this then continues to operate into the light, it purposes almost a path to the image that is highly successful.

contextually,the artists within this image had a scenic is to capture the light within what is stereotypically perceived as a dark and fluently feared section of a wood, she wanted to demonstrate the natural beauty in hick we live and the landscape that had a man made gate but how this has a removal from the relationship within nature and society.It emphasis how we should be placed together and how this would create a world with much light and jovial living.Techniqually:the piece was taken very accurately in order to capture the light to cover and produce lines over the whole of the image.The purpose, it was taken to show the natural beauty within landscapes and how people have to look to find the beauty in which they are continuously surrounded by

mind map:I chose the following images because I thought they successfully reprinted the way in which the photgoher capture the beauty and essence of landscapes but also the drama of Romanism wihtin the sky.She continually has an interesting main fetaure of the image weather that be lines or circles or a large dark juxtaposing tone.

Ideas I want to use in my work:

throughout my work I too want to capture the way in which she uses light to create a from and also enhance the image throughout its detail and overall finish the composition as a piece.Secondly I want to so many of her works the have a long lead of extension and a road but show a tree or an obstacle in the way, this is due to the way in which it draws attention to a specific aspect the piece but also shows a dynamic sense of dynamic composition  of lines and thirds within the piece. Much like my previous  artist Ansel Adams I will to edit the images to have the same contrasting tones of darker and lighter throughout.

 

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Landscape artists

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Ansel Adams:

Adams was born February 20th,1902,he was highly influences throughout his surrounding city also being his first memory watching fog moving across the sky and how nature had such a beauty within its movement.Adams himself was a photographer but also an environmentalist,he was born California ,San Francisco. He grew up surrounded by nature happening to be in a sand dune golden gate area,although using these years his once wetly family lost their worth and Adams broke his nose making him distinct for his future life.Due to his older family he has a very historical upbringing which influenced him to be interested himself  in a Victorian society both socially and emotionally conservative.

The role of himself as an artist was very much the involvement he had within the environment and movement within it, this including romanticism. He spent many years of his life trying to perfectly articulate and effortless wilderness and have an active involvement in being a ‘mystique:a valid,intangible,and ton-materialistic experience’.His work touched countless people in his effort to show the importance of the environment and saving the remaining lands.

The most impactful place he is said to have pictured evolved his way or working was San Joaquin Valley,he said it was ‘full of caverns, tall pines and stolid oaks, rising to an undreamed heights ad the poignant sounds and smells of ratifier’ This  colored landscape modulates his work and earth trademark.when his photography was increasingly important he started excersizing a claim of his energy that was also competing with a beckoning career as a concept pianist.

what I like about his work:

I chose Ansel Adams due to his large significant influence to many and how his work is still praised today for the quality and creating of a landscape to be seen in a light never recognized before.The way in which he uses tones shows a story and a lines of sight to create a flowing and consciousness design of light. his works also never failed to show a power and seen of authority which allows the demonstration of rebellion and what was necessary for a romanticized piece of work. His landscapes are vast pieces of art and never fails to all a story and capture the same presence of a being.

Analysis of favourite piece:

I chose this piece for many reasons,The sky has a clear movement and also power within the strength of tones and also the texture within the sky itself, this shows a strong contrast to the rest of the piece which also shows a clear form and structure in which he intended to portray.There is also a raggedness and solid strength of lines on the mountains, this from a sense of line sand almost a man made aspect to the piece itself. Furthermore the lighter tones and movement of the ground also shows a movement and as if a lane to draw attention to the background and not the foreground.

Technically this image has been divided into three sections,this has been done by the sky,rocks and foreground.It is also technically edited in the way the tones are spread throughout and darker harsher tones to emphasis the main attention aspects overall. Visually there are many interesting aspects which would draw in attention of detail and individual aspects of the landscape.There is almost a manipulation to mirror the ground and sky and the rocks as a divisor and to portray an  almost illusion aspect and something you are not able to see naturally,almost a distorted reality aspect.Contextually this has be done in Ansels eyes to shows the beauty of nature and how it needs to be protected,its also done to connote an unseen beauty and how the world could all look like and a preventive to future harm.

Ideas I want to show within my own work:

Throughout my own shoot I also want to show the way in which tones and the strength shows the dominance of an area of an image and how they all need to balance out and also create a sense of line to the main view point . Secondly I want to show a harsh sense of strength within the image wither sing rocks or a design of landscape but then soften this with a contrasting movement formed by wind or a slower time lapse. Lastly I want to show many element of attention within the image,I want it to be interesting and show many interesting concepts in which I have tried to capture and the way in which their own conceptual concepts all intertwined and work throughout each other.

Mind map:

His work clearly all have the same continuation of themes and methods and a precise method in which they are achieved,from observing these You can see clearly how yourself could produce something much similar

My final development of his style:

Finally for my shoot inspired by Adams I too will go to areas that have interesting textured surfaces and also occasional lines of continuation that lead to a dramatic hill area.I will also look at trees and possibly sand dunes and how I can mirror that with the way in which the sky has a drama and texture to.

 

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romanticism in photography

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romanticism was found during the romantic era during a major art movement,this movement originated in the 18th century and was due to social and political enlightenment, this movement also rejected the normal  the idealized harmonies of Neo-classicism and classicism. The movement is used in order to capture a specific purity of imagination of nature and spontaneity.Deep feeling and emotion are the establishment of the movement itself. Throughout the movement their was a large expansion of the exotic and heroic ideas of the art where you could envision and escape, this can be viewed throughout the pioneering artwork.

In the mid 19th century photographers were able to also use this art as a means of their own creation. Many used the landscapes to show vast space and a continuation of mid lines. Although initially inspired by the natural beauty of nature they need to show a clean cut man made almost line to form that symbol of disruption and drama.

Many famous Romantiszed photographers focus upon not an extract truth but a mode of a feeling.The nature having to be captured is nor uncontrollable nor unpredictable.

Many romanticised pieces of photography make you question ‘Is this a “beautiful” photo…or a “beautiful” landscape…or both?’This is due to the photo having to tell a story and that should be shown throughout the natural beauty of the landscape but also enhanced by the way in which it captures the key to create a sense of power and the landscape to show many conceptual attributes.Many images are decorative in the sense that people think they are  nice to look at,this is due to the relationship of beauty within nature that many people have a connection with.There is a link above to a website showing the evolution of romanticism and realism.

 

 

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conclusion and evaluation of portraiture

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Throughout the portrait project I mostly wanted to achieve the theme of ‘loss of identity’.To do this I focused on a mirror shoot, then a colour shoot using projections and lastly a black and white shoot with the scratching removal of a face. All of which I want to show a removal or cover of their own identity of a different reflections of themselves to what other people would see.My most effective shoot was the mirror shoot, this is due to the way in which the there was dynamic shots that were very creative in showing many sides to a person and illusion to show multiple faces within one.  I chose my final images from all three shoots and displayed them suiting to the colour and theme of shoot.Overall I focused more upon three creative shoots and only experimental ideas fro tableau photography,I chose this because I thought my ideas were less suited to tableau. Although the tableau 7 sins idea would be effective so possibly there would be more experimentation throughout that in the future. Altogether this project had many ideas they all came under the theme of loss of identity when thinking about creative photography  and overall it worked as a whole.