Photo shoot Plan

Genre /  Artist – Landscape, Formalism/ Minimalism

Concept –  Man Made

Location – Towns, Cities

Props – Tripod

Shot type – Landscape

Lighting – Natural

Settings – Landscape

Contact sheets

My Favorite images

Edited Images

Further experimentation – Black and white

Evaluation – favorite final image

This was my favourite image out of the originals and also the edited images. I think this image is very aesthetically pleasing as the strong contrast between the multiple colours on the building and the dark blue sky really brings forth the building and allows the colours to stand out massively. Furthermore, I believe that this image is very strong in the way it imposes the conceptual ideas of man taking over and nature. This can be seen in the image as this building is almost looking over the tree thats tucked away in the bottom corner. This is a clear representation of the power of man and our mad made structures and how it can overcome nature is such a way that it has just been put to the side so humans can make their vast man made structures.

Who is Nick Frank?

Nick is a German urban landscape photography who has studios located in Munich and has also worked with some of the largest companies in the world such as; Apple, Adobe and Canon. Furthermore, Nick has also been awarded with numbers of awards throughout his carrier.

Nick was responsible for the visual presentation of advertising campaigns over many years in advertising agencies, he then he changed to express his ideas in his own pictures.

His photographs can be found in numerous announcements today. For example; news magazines like Spiegel,  Wired or New York Times and highly regarded newspapers like SZ. His requests from global cities like Vienna, Paris and so on are showing his strength in his images.

Examples of Nick’s work

Photo analysis

This coloured landscape photograph is of a pink building called the La Muralla Roja. This photography has clearly only been taken with natural lighting as you can see the multiple shadows that have been created from the abstract building. There is a strong contrast in this image between the pink building and the pale blue sky. The use of this strong contrast really allows the building to project its abstract shapes. Furthermore, the green tree creates a sense of juxtaposition as it also creates a strong contrast between the man made structure and the natural structure within this image. This is because there is very little natural structures compared to the large amount of man made structures. The multiple shapes within this building creates a sense of depth as it create an almost maze feeling to the image as you could imagine getting lost among all the sharp and abstract shapes. Overall, the way Nick has captured this abstract image allows the viewers to visualise it in such a way which results in this image being  very aesthetically pleasing to look at.

For this image I decided to print the image to the scale of A3 size, I want to sick this image onto a white foam board as I wanted to have decided to present this image by its self as I feel that this is the strongest image out of my final selection.

I have decided to present these image together on the same white foam board as the I feel that they do not fit with the other images but when they are put together complement each other very nicely, I have printed these to images to A4 size.

With this final image I decided to print it off at A4 size. I  plan to stick it onto a white foam board and then to stick this onto a black board to highlight the levels of contrast.

Experimentation Of Different Layouts 

Final Layout Choice

I decided to change the layout of the image from being on separate pieces and card and foam, I decided to present all if the images on a white piece of card as it would be more effective as the images all fit into the same series. I placed the A3 image in the center of the card as I feel that this is the strongest image out of my final selection.  

One of Spain's most prominent and innovative artists, Joan Fontcuberta is best known for exploring the interstices between art, science, and illusion. Where science reaches its limits in his works, the imagination frequently finds a creative space in which to flourish. In Landscapes without Memory, Fontcuberta has co-opted a piece of computer software originally designed for military or scientific use in rendering three-dimensional images of landscapes. The software enables the user to build photo-realistic models based on information scanned from two-dimensional sources—usually satellite surveys or cartographic data. The result gives the user the illusion of navigating in three dimensions which had previously been visualized only as a flat image.Fontcuberta feeds the software fragments of pictures by Turner, Cézanne, Dalí, Stieglitz, Weston, and others, forcing the program to interpret a variety of landscape masterworks as "real." The contours and tones of these painted and photographic landscapes are transformed into three-dimensional mountains, rivers, valleys, and clouds.

My edits using my own images

EDITS

Strongest images

Witchoria

Victoria Siemer is a Brooklyn-based American graphic artist who focuses mainly on photo manipulation using Photoshop.

Her inspirations come from the idea of “emotional fragmentation or ‘fragmentation of the self.’“ Since she had no formal photography training, she paid close attention to others, including artist and former roommate Jeff Brown and street photographer Dave Krugman. It was only more recently that Siemer has begun to call herself an artist, rather than a designer.

Inspiration for this shoot

Photo shoot Plan

For this photo shoot I am going to focus on Witchoria’s photos which she creates a 90 degree angle of half the picture on the side to create an illusion.  Her photos are all at the beach for this style therefore this photo shoot will consist of mainly beach pictures.  For this photo shoot I will use a tripod due to the fact that the sea is constantly moving and I want to try to reduce as much motion blur as possible to create a realistic looking photo to help with the illusion which will be created when editing.