First I turned all photo into black and white to see which photos look best with this tonal range. Then after picking the 3 to 5 images I put them into a separate mini folder so I can access them easily and to be able to edit them in my lessons when needs to be. I then changed to editing the photos on photoshop as I can access that in my free time. I changed the image into black and white then proceeded to alter the contrast and brightness to give it a stronger look with a large dynamic range. This then made my image turn very abstract yet it is natural which corresponds the task in hand. I then did the same thing to the other two images but with different contrast and brightness levels to then fit the image and how I think would give the images a mysterious look towards it.
After changing the brightness and contrast I decided that I didn’t want to adjust the image too much to the point where the original doesn’t match the photoshopped one so I’m leaving it to how it is as the first image already looks abstract and the other two I am happy with the mysterious look they give.
Rural Landscape – ‘the diverse portion of the nation’s land area not densely populated or intensively developed, and not set aside for preservation in a natural state.’
Rural landscape photography is similar to photographing urban lanscapes, the difference is rural photography is about capturing the ‘life’ in the countryside.
Romanticism is an intellectual orientation that characterised several works of literature, painting, music, design, and historiography in Western culture over a amount from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. Romanticism are often seen as a rejection of the precepts of order, calm, harmony, balance, and rationality that typified liberal arts normally and late 18th-century arts specifically. Romanticism stresses the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the ingenious, the non-public, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and therefore the transcendental.
Fay Godwin initially took an interest in photography from taking photos of her children in the 1960s, alongside that she took photos of landscape, specializing in rural landscapes. She often collaborated closely with writers to supply exhaustive surveys of specific rural topics or regions. Her photography has generally been joined to a convention of romantic representations of British landscape, within the manner of Bill solon or king Smith. But, as a socialist and active conservationist, Godwin makes the land in her images reveal traces of its history, through mankind’s occupation and and intervention. Her pictures show a readiness to reply to the flow of life, to embrace some live of the accidental effects of sunshine and atmosphere. In incorporating components of each truth and figure of speech, Godwin’s work forms one in every of the foremost complete poetic documents of Brits landscape.
Rural landscape is similar to urban but is different as rural landscape is all about capturing life in the countryside. These types of places are typically located outside towns and cities with a low population density and small settlements.
Personally I feel that rural captures life and the history of life whereas urban is more modern life.
In landscape photography it is important to get the right aperture, shutter, and ISO to work together to give you the perfect exposure otherwise the image may result in looking dull and not capture the best photo. This means not overexposing the highlights and underexposing the shadowy areas.
Rural Landscape Photography
Rural landscape describes the land area which is not densely populated or developed. The rural landscape provides natural resources, food and fiber and wildlife habitat.
Rural landscape photography is about capturing an image in countryside capturing the essence of life.
Romanticism is an artistic and cultural movement originating in Europe at the end of the 18th century, and increased interest in nature, emphasis on the individual’s emotion, horror, dread, terror and imagination. Emotion and feeling were important, not only from the artist creating the work but also how it should be presented. Instead of atmosphere we get an emphasis on the mundane, the overlooked, the nondescript, failure.
The Key themes are emotion and imagination, nature , and social class. To be influenced greatly by the evolving world around them.
The golden ratio can be used to offer a sense of harmony, and is one way to balance an image. It leads a viewer’s eyes around an image in a balanced way, meaning they will view it in a certain way following the line and ending at the end of the spiral.
It is used to emphasise movement in a photo to create a dynamic feel.
This is best used for images where there are many things happening in the scene. They could be people, buildings, and other subjects or objects.
Rule Of Thirds:
The rule of thirds is a compositional rule about breaking the flat and conventional angles. Cameras Often have the grid on the screen when taking a photo to help use this rule.
when taking a photo keep the focal point/object one of the intersecting points. By doing this, it makes the image more aesthetically pleasing and is more intriguing then placing the object in the middle of the photo. Do not place the horizon in the middle instead aim for the top or bottom third.
The rule of thirds is best to add interest to minimal scenes. These scenes don’t have any distractions as you won’t have many different subjects in the middle ground or background.
I will make sure to go to each location when there is different weather, for example the woodland location I will go when it is a misty day but also when the sun is out because then I could get the sun light through the trees. The coastal I would like to go on a day where it is bright so I can get a contrast with the caves and cliffs. The Countryside/fields I want to photograph on a day with clear skies either no clouds or full with clouds so the I can incorporate the 1-10 spectrum.
This topic is the Landscape project where we will be studying Landscape portraits as well as taking and editing our own.
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.
To begin this topic I am preparing a shoot of an iconic natural landscape in Jersey, The Sand Dunes. I have chosen the sand dunes as they are instantly recognisable to locals and are an important part of Jersey history that helps define the island.
She takes her photo in black and white to give the image a dull feeling to it to show the viewers that there is a sad feeling to this image and how behind this image is a sad message on how she can’t go to this view point anymore because its become a private area. The lighting of this image is natural and seems to be taken during the day coming close to sunset or after sun rise as you can see steams of natural sunlight going behind the clouds hiding the suns light giving the overall affect that it is going to rain. The image has a range of tones from the lake with white, light tones to simple dull grays at the grass next to the path then strong coal black on the hills.
a photo montage is a collection of photos, overlapped and merged together to create a collage. It was first used as a technique by the dadaists in 1915 in their protests against the First World War. It was later adopted by the surrealists who exploited the possibilities photo montage offered by using free association to bring together widely disparate images, to reflect the workings of the unconscious mind.
Hannah Hoch – art as a form of protest
Raoul Haussman
In these photos, the artists have cut and pasted different photos and over lapped them into one. It is seen that parts of the face have been placed appropriately on the original photo, so I mimicked this style of collaging my taking parts of existing portraits and positioning them on corresponding features on the base photo.
