Planning and preparation
Contact sheet
Choosing and Editing
To start my choosing process, i chose the photos that had the most similar view point to my reference photos, this was to increase the accuracy of comparing the two time eras. Next, I edited my photos to have the same black and white tones as their partnering photo.
St Catherines Breakwater Harve De Pas Liberty Wharf Gorey Castle
To my surprise, it is clear in most of the comparisons that they are still quite similar to an older era, considering the growing rate of development in Jersey. I like how they turned out, especially considering that due to the development in Jersey, it was difficult to stand in the exact same place as the previous photographers i.e, at Gorey, there is now a shed, meaning i couldn’t get to where the photographer was, so had to stand further forwards, leading the present photo to be closer up.
Experimentation
For my experimentation, I decided to steer off from Rauschenberg’s style of displaying the photos and decided to find a way to merge to two time eras using an altered landscape technique.
Although this is an advanced way to compare the differences, i still feel like the original Rauschenberg display is more efficient as the viewer can see the whole of the two images and not just parts of them.