Photos that embody the spirit of the outdoors. Photos that are awe inspiring.
mood board of landscape photography
romanticism landscape photography
what is romanticism?
The artists, poets and musicians of the Romantic period were united by their determination to use their art to convey emotion or provoke an emotional response from audiences.
To describe the movement in art and literature distinguished by a new interest in human psychology, expression of personal feeling and interest in the natural world.
These are all the photos I took during my shoot. When I took the photos I used manual focus.
These are the best photos from my shoot. These are the best because, they are the most focused, aesthetically pleasing, and interesting.
I decided to edit 3 of the photos, to enhance the photo.
PHOTO ONE
before
after adjusting levels
after adjusting the hue and saturation
I really like this photo, because I like how the 3D triangle frames the view outside of the window. This photo is very aesthetically pleasing as all the background is out of focus, but the foreground is, and that what I like about the photo, mainly.
PHOTO TWO
before
after adjusting levels
after adjusting hue and saturation
I really like this photo, because I like the shape of the tables and the lines on the ground and how they cross.
RICHARD HAMILTON, 1922, was an artist and photographer, that mixed painting and photos to create interesting and unique pieces, that were the earliest pieces of pop art. Throughout his education, HAMILTON, studied art on and off, once being expelled for defying his teachers’ instructions. In WW2, HAMILTON, was a technical draftsman. He has exhibited his work in many places, such as Hanover Gallery and Tate Gallery. HAMILTON died in 2011, in London.
my favourite HAMILTON pieces
These are my favourite pieces by HAMILTON, because I enjoy the bright colours and how he incorporates his/found paintings, photographs and colour blocks together to create a story for the viewer. I like the way HAMILTON uses negative space to add depth and a 3D look.
image analysis
TECHNICAL
This photo montage is made mostly up of colour blocks or negative space. The negative space brings light and focus to the montage, although it is not technically lighting, the blank spaces act as light. It is mostly flat light though.
VISUAL
The negative space adds dimension to some aspects and creates a 2D feel in some spaces too. The white spaces adds an edge to some parts, such as in the door way. The way the aspects are arranged creates a 3D picture, this happens where the room behind the lady is placed, creates another room, and another part of the story that HAMILTON wanted to add. The way the photo montage is composed, is visually appealing, as the lady is stood on the other side of the busy and heavily filled with objects and negative space.
CONTEXTUAL
The use of the women figure links to the time in which the photo montage was created, in the sense that, women were objects and classed subordinate. HAMILTON maybe chose to use the woman, as the main focus to show that women are important to society. Or, did HAMILTON use the woman to show how they can be used and objectified in society.
For this experiment, I used the magnetic lasso tool to select the planes and smoke. I then changed the saturation and vibrancy, as I was attempting to create a realistic feel. I don not think it worked that well so I tried to do it again later on.
experiment 2
For this experiment, I also the magnetic lasso tool to select the planes and smoke. However this time I change the planes in to black and white, to mix colours and create a vintage edge. I feel this went better than the 1st, but next time I would make the planes smaller, as it looks a little edited and unrealistic.
experiment 3
For this experiment, I used the marque tool to select the part of the original photo I wanted and placed it in the window. I decided to do this photo montage as I wanted to experiment with perspective and view. If I was to do this photo montage again, I would find a tower, with either a bigger window or a door, as this would allow the sunset is bigger and easier to view.
experiment 4
For this experiment, I also used the marque tool to select the door of the tower, and placed it on the sun. This photo montage was yet again to experiment with perspective and view too. I really like this photo montage, as it came out how I wanted.
experiment 5
For this experiment, I used the photo montage from the previous experiment, and dropped it into the window. This came out the way I wanted them to.
experiment 6
For this experiment, I wanted to better the first photo montage I did. I felt this was experiment is much better, as I looks more realistic and life-like. I wanted to make the planes smoke to have the same colours as the sunset and reflect too. I did this by copying the layer of the planes and changing the layer style to ‘luminosity’, by doing this is reflected the sunsets colours. I then just erased the excess picture, so it blended into the background.
experiment 7
For this experiment, by hand, I cut and arranged the photos, in a way that represented liberation and occupation. I placed a picture of the sea in the background, to represent the liberation, as nature is free. Then all of the war figures relate to occupation, as they are in the army.
I made contact sheets on Photoshop, and digitally marked any photos, with a circle those I wanted to keep and use, with a cross those I would definitely not use and delete, with a ? if I may come back to them later on in the project, I also left the rest blank and will save them for another time.
Here are the photos I will keep and use in my photo montages.
The lighting is coming from behind, from the overhead lighting and the windows too, this adds light to the background, allowing it to be seen. There is also light coming directly from in front, which illuminates his features and casts eerie shadows across his face.
The colours in the photo are warm tones, as they are mostly browns and oranges. This creates a sinister mood.
Visual
The tone is dark, as most of the objects are dark.
The texture of the piece is rough, as the objects are worn and craggy.
As for the composition, the character is placed directly in the center of the photo, this creates a sense of importance and authority. He is placed in front of a window, which allows us, as a viewer, to see into his life and what he does. The window also frames him too, which adds to the importance and authority he has.
Contextual and Conceptual
Contextually, the man in the photo is called Alfred Krupp. He was a German, who owned factories that made trains, railways and railway systems. The photographer, Arnold Newman, was an American Jew. The idea behind this photograph was to gain revenge and to frame the German for his input in the war, that killed millions of Jews. Years later he was found linked to the death of millions of Jews, and this is why this photograph is so famous. C
To combine photos for artistic effect, to show more subject than a single photo can do. You can make a photomontage either by hand, by cutting and sticking, or digitally, on photoshop.
Brief history of photo montage
Photomontage became popular during the Victorian era, but it was then called combination printing. The idea was created by Oscar Rejlander, who was a pioneering photographer. Photomontage was used in WW1 to capture men at war departing to war with their families seeing them off. It was also used to protest war and politics.
