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.

For this shoot I wanted to shows some themes of surrealism and also emotions expressed through their style of traces woodman and how she blurs people moving in order to express an emotion. I chose a dancer due to the effect of the abstract shapes and forms creating patterns in the sky and such. I belive this response is quite interesting and definitely does contain more abstract themes to my previously more straight photography style of showing a clear demonstration of emotions. I belive due to how blurry it is as it forms a similar relation to both landscapes and portraiture both mixed into one similar over ruling theme. I wanted to experiment with both editing with and without colour, I have done this as I quite enjoyed experimenting with the juxtaposition of the bright red shoes, I then also developed more in photoshop and overlaying the images and ow this can combine to show a chaotic over ruling theme of both emotion and action, I belive those images clearly demonstrate that of stress, and a sense of frantic worry. I think dancing itself is an oxymoron. It is so beautiful yet causes the dancer themselves so much pain throughput the extensive training.

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This is one of my favourite images from this shoot, I think the movement of the light and juxtaposition to the arms moving so quickly and frantically to that of the simplicity of the dancer being on point. I this creates an almost type of paradox that perhaps it could be further conceptualised to that of pleasure and pain all into one image itself.

This image has such a strong surrealistic undertone. The way the light forms and looks as though it is lifting her up. I believe this movement and almost angelic light shows a freedom and a peace to the image. I think this image is the symbol of the sublime, you could never plan this image which I think is such a primary purpose to being a significant and sublime. There is a freedom and unpredictability, there is also an expectation of danger as she will have to fall back down. I think I should do further experiment with this image and do believe possible with a lower saturation this will be such a successful

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I think overlapping  these images makes them less clear in the way which you are now unable to see the point of the composition. I belive if I add more quotations which philosophers have spoken about which have a relation to the image it could be successful and further conceptualises the photos themselves.