Romanticism 

In the late 1700s, numerous advances in the sciences led to new ideas about how the Earth was formed. A generation of landscape painters came to meet the demand, but also to create landscape art for its own sake. During the first half of the 1800s, landscape art became more realistic, even reaching levels of hyper-realism. In the second half of the century, photography began to have an impact on landscape painting and changed it forever.The movement was used in order to capture a specific purity of imagination of nature and spontaneity. Deep feeling and emotion are the establishments of the movement itself. Throughout the movement, there was a large expansion of the exotic and heroic ideas of the art where you could envision and escape.

Mood Board 

Links about Romanticism 

http://patricksmithphotography.com/blog/romanticism-and-realism-1800-1890-2/

https://www.photo-mark.com/notes/defense-romanticism/

Landscape photography shows spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times microscopic.

Landscape photographs typically capture the presence of nature but can also focus on man-made features or disturbances of landscapes.

Landscape photographs can vary in the way they are taken throughout different times of the day. Typically, they are taken in daylight however some photographers use long shutter speeds at night to get some interesting  shots.

Landscape photography typically requires relatively simple photographic equipment, though more sophisticated equipment can give a wider range of possibilities to the art. An artist’s eye for the subject can produce attractive and impressive results even with modest equipment.

Many Landscape photographs are used commercially to promote certain destinations or businesses. These are often edited in such way to make the places more appealing then they actually are.

What is natural landscape photography?

A natural landscape is the original landscape that exists before it is acted upon by human activity. The natural landscape and the cultural landscapes are separate parts of the landscape.

Examples of natural landscapes

For my final portraits, I decided to take my inspiration from Rosanna Jones work. What I liked about Rosanna’s work was how the image had not been obscured from view digitally but physically placing tape on top of the image to create texture in the image, which is a unique concept which I wanted to incorporate into my work.

The similarities that the images have is that they both tape which is obscuring the faces of the model and is the main focus of the image have been physically placed on top that then the photo has been taken, which create texture in the image. Both of the images have had the tape by physically placed onto of a first image which has then been re photographer to create depth in the image.

The differences in the photographs are that my images had vertical lines going across the image I decide to keep this the final images as  I felt like it added another layer to the image. Rosanna’s image has slight hint of purple whereas my images is in total black and white I wanted my image to be this way as I felt that by having the sole colour in the entire image to be the tap covering the model’s faces would make the image have a greater impact

I paired the two black and white images together by placing them both on foam board which I backed up on the black mount.

The third image I backed up on foam board by itself as it was the only coloured image. I placed pins in the 4 corners for a 3D effect of the pins that appear in the actual image.