During year 12 we explored many different topics and did many different projects. We looked at themes such as Anthropocene , street photography , portraiture abstract and many more. This has allowed me to be able to find out how the themes I enjoy photographing the most as I have been able to try many themes and now in year 13 I know where my strengths are and where I can focus on project on. We also experimented with many different skills in photography for example different lighting techniques and using artificial and natural lighting and creating a film.
Over the photography course I have mainly enjoyed focusing on the portraiture and object based shoots. I enjoyed shoots in the studio where I use artificial lighting and set up the shoot rather than using a more natural setting. I feel my strengths are within portraiture photography as I like being able to control my shoots and set up the lighting rather than having to work around a set up. I like portraiture photography as I like being able to express peoples emotions in a powerful image as I feel this creates a good image and can give the viewers a message and can be open for interpretation.
I particularly liked this shoot as I enjoyed experimenting with different colours whether that’s red , blue or even black & white. I liked being able to create a contrast of colours as this can create a message for the viewers and I feel it creates a strong image. I was very happy with my final outcomes from this shoot and felt I created some good images.
I thoroughly enjoyed the identity shoot and project we did. I took portrait images and then cut out facial features, burned the eyes of the image and ripped or cut the image in order to adapt the image and create a new feel from the image. I enjoyed playing around with the image and being able to change and manipulate the image as I feel it completely changes the meaning of the image and makes it a more interesting image to look at.
For this shoot I looked into the artist “Rosanna Jones” who was London photographer who specialises in a blend experimental blend of art and photography and celebrates the possibilities with an image. She is known for ripping up, painting over and destroying images. Her work is aimed at examining visual identity and notions of embodiment. I wanted to use her as I liked her style of work and her reasoning behind it. I feel like I could do so much and had lots of ideas and felt like this allowed me to be very creative.
These images were my final images from my Anthropocene project. In this project I used items which are seen as harmful to the environment and cause world wide issues for the global warming. I enjoyed experiment with using objects within my images to help adapt and enhance the portrait image. I was able to use these objects to change the view, visibility and concept behind the images.
Although my main preference within photography was portraiture photography I still explored landscape photography.
These images are from my street photography project where I went out into St Helier and photographed people without their knowledge of me taking the image in order to capture a real time image which is not staged.