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Landscape Photography | Week 1 | Natural and Romanticized Landscapes

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Week 1

The focus of your study and research this week is natural landscapes and the notion of ROMANTICISM in Landscape  Art and then later, Photography.

Working Title/Artist: Stormy Coast Scene after a Shipwreck
Department: European Paintings
Working Date: (1830)
RESEARCH

The Age of The Enlightenment (1700-1800ish)

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The Age of Romanticism (1800-1900ish)

“Writers and artists rejected rationalism for the same reason that rationalism was rejected by the movement as a whole- it was in rejection of Enlightenment, which had sucked emotion from writing, politics, art, etc. Writers and artists in the Romantic period favored depicting emotions such as trepidation, horror, and wild untamed nature.”

“The ideals of these two intellectual movements were very different from one another. The Enlightenment thinkers believed very strongly in rationality and science. … By contrast, the Romantics rejected the whole idea of reason and science. They felt that a scientific worldview was cold and sterile.”

Blog Post 1: Define, describe and explain Romanticism (in landscape photography). Include a mood-board of appropriate images. Include at least 1 x hyperlink to an appropriate and relevant website. Embed an appropriate and relevant video / podcast.

Blog Post 2: Create an in-depth case study that analyses and interprets the work of a key landscape photographer…

Ansel Adams / f/64 group / Edward Weston / Fay Godwin / Hiroshi Sugimoto / Minor White etc

Remember you MUST use TECHNICAL / VISUAL / CONTEXTUAL / CONCEPTUAL to analyse effectively a key image…

Blog Post 3: add your contact sheet / select your best 5-10 images / 1 x final image / include edits and screen shots to show process

  • analyse and evaluate your images and process
  • show your understanding of composition, exposure, control of light, and effective use  of lenses to create NATURAL landscape images that range from wide angle to telephoto as a response to how your choice of photographer(s) developed the genre…

Use your research to help guide you when taking your own photographs…

  • create a mind-map / mood-board of potential locations around Jersey that you could record and create romanticized landscape photographs of….look for extremes (either calm or wild, derelict, desolate, abandoned or stormy, battered and at the mercy of nature)
  • use the wild and dynamic weather and elements to help create a sense of atmosphere, and evoke an emotional response within your photo assignment
  • aim to photograph the coastline, the sea, the fields, the valleys, the woods, the sand dunes etc
  • photograph in the “golden hour” before dark, at sunset or during sunrise…and include rain, fog, mist, ice, wind etc in your work
  • look for LEADING LINES such as pathways, roads etc to help dissect your images and provide a sense of journey / discovery to them

EXTENSION TASK: EXPOSURE BRACKETING AND HDR IMAGERY

 

Exposure bracketing means that you take two more pictures: one slightly under-exposed (usually by dialing in a negative exposure compensation, say -1/3EV), and the second one slightly over-exposed (usually by dialing in a positive exposure compensation, say +1/3EV), again according to your camera’s light meter.

High Dynamic Range

HDR stands for high dynamic range, and it essentially takes a series of images, each shot with a different exposure from darkest to lightest. HDR combines the best parts of the three overexposed, underexposed, and balanced shots to create a dramatic image with beautiful shadowing and highlights

HDR adjustments in Adobe Lightroom click here

HDR adjustments in Adobe Photoshop click here

Task : try a few variation of exposure bracketing and then try using HDR controls to create the exposures that you want…you may already have pre-sets on your phone or camera to help you do this, but experimenting manually will help your understanding!

Ensure that you include the following key terms…

  • Composition (rule of thirds, balance, symmetry)
  • Perspective (linear and atmospheric, vanishing points)
  • Depth (refer to aperture settings and focus points, foreground, mid-ground and back-ground)
  • Scale (refer to proportion, but also detail influenced by medium / large format cameras)
  • Light ( intensity, temperature, direction)
  • Colour (colour harmonies / warm / cold colours and their effects)
  • Shadow (strength, lack of…)
  • Texture and surface quality
  • Tonal values ( contrast created by highlights, low-lights and mid-tones)

Atmospheric Perspective

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Linear Perspective

Good Luck!

 

 

 

 

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Adam Goldberg | Constructed Portraits

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Adam Goldberg

Known primarily as an actor, Adam Goldberg is also a photographer, musician, and a filmmaker.

Although he shoots digitally as well, Adam works primarily with several analog cameras and film stocks ranging from 35mm to 8×10 with an emphasis on instant films.

His works use double exposure techniques to layer multiple similar images over one another. This can portray a plot, or the idea of what is going on inside someones head.

After looking at Adam Goldberg’s work, I wanted to also provide an underlying story of what is going on inside the subjects of my photos head.

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John Stezaker & Hannah Hoch | Constructed Portraits

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John Stezaker

John Stezaker’s work re-examines the various relationships to the photographic image: as a documentation of truth, purveyor of memory, and symbol of modern culture. In his collages, Stezaker appropriates images found in books, magazines, and postcards and uses them as ‘readymades’. Through his elegant juxtapositions, Stezaker adopts the content and contexts of the original images to convey his own witty and poignant meanings.

Using publicity shots of classic film stars, Stezaker splices and overlaps famous faces, creating hybrid ‘icons’ that dissociate the familiar to create sensations of the uncanny. Coupling male and female identity into unified characters, Stezaker points to a disjointed harmony, where the irreconciliation of difference both complements and detracts.

Hannah Hoch

Hannah Höch was a German Dada artist who lived from November 1st, 1889 – May 31st 1978 . She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage. Photomontage is a type of collage in which the pasted items are actual photographs pulled from other sources of media or photography.

Höch’s work often focused on gender roles where she wanted to show that woman were just as capable and equal as men. Her active interest in challenging the status of women in the social world of her times motivated a long series of works that promoted the idea of the “New Woman” in the era.

Using the same techniques of photomontage, I wanted to create works where I would merge masculine traits with feminine traits. I was inspired to combine my own images with photos of masculine and feminine stereotypes in media.

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Heitor Magno & Mark Borthwick | Constructed Portraits

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Heitor Magno

Heitor Magno is a Brazilian visual artist who explores identity through self-portraiture.

He uses double exposure techniques, often placing clones of himself alongside eachother, to create glitch images – layering and obscuring expressions and complex emotions. Interfered Pictures, invisible expressions and pixelated factions are reflections questioning about his identity.

Heitor questions our willingness to expose intimate moments in our lives which can usually be given away by the expression on our faces.

 Mark Borthwick

Mark Borthwick is a British photographer now living in Brooklyn, New York. His photos are often minimal, yet highly saturated in colour. He has contributed to many publications, including Vogue, George, Purple, and Index.

Mark Borthwick uses film in his photography even now due to his interest in the luminosity and transparency that it gives. He likes to have less control of his photography and let it happen spontaneously, as he feels its so controlled like a mechanism. However, he also does find it a surprise everytime as it depends on temperature of the light and the brightness of the light.

He realised that what he loves about photography is capturing people who he has a connection with, as it gives a sense of time and history from capturing them in different moments of time.

In the Images are Stella Tennant who he has been taking photos of for over 10 years. He became friends with her after their children had formed a friendship.

Combining the two photographers ideas, I felt inspired to take photos of people who I had a connection with, my friends. As I know their emotions, I would glitch and distort them to prevent the viewer from seeing this and therefore hiding their identity.

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wang wei

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Wang Wei is a fashion photographer based in Bejing who specializes in analog photography. Each of his photos are highly expressive and colourful. Wei's photos mainly capture realistic and completely unadulterated scenes of todays youth.Wei's photos are diverse in themes of identity, some of his photos hide it through the use of blur, mirrors, light and shadow. Others express and exhibit someones identity in a photograph through the use colour and tableau. The use of strong colour on certain photographs conveys the strong personalities of youth.