They can be huge rural spaces, peri-urban areas as well as small spaces within built-up areas. Rural landscapes encompass land surfaces, subsurface soils and resources, the airspace above, and water bodies.
mindmap of rural landscapes that you can photograph.
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 photography is where you photograph an outdoor area that is not quite populated- the photographs often include ‘natural recourses, food and fibre and wildlife habitat’. They are often full of life like fields, trees, flowers but also include beaches, sunsets etc.
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.
Landscape photography is capturing an image that embodies the spirit of the outdoors and makes the viewer feel like they are there.
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 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.
Lisa Wood – David Gibbeson – Charlie Waite
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.
Romanticism in literature:
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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.
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.
To create this grid of headshots, I used previous images I had taken and imported them onto a grid in photoshop, aligned them correctly so all images had the same length and width to create this final outcome. I used a range of coloured images but also incorporated a few black and white images. Each row of images complement each other, the top layer being greyscale, the middle having strong tones of red and the bottom row having a range of colours and saturation. Bright or dull lighting was created through artificial lighting and the colours were made with transparent coloured sheets over the studio lights.
Street photography, a genre of photography that records everyday life in a public place. The very publicness of the setting enables the photographer to take candid pictures of strangers, often without their knowledge. Street photography aims to capture everyday life in public places, particularly in urban landscapes. Usually it’s a form of candid photography, when the person isn’t aware they’re being photographed, which creates more realistic and powerful images. Great street photographs say something about life; they speak to us; they fill us with an emotion; or they give us insight. They are not about light; they are not about shapes or forms; they are not about faces. Light, shapes, and faces can only aid in the success of a photo; they cannot be the reason for it. When you look at a great street photograph you should not leave it saying, ‘Wow that light was amazing.’ You should leave it saying, ‘Wow the emotion or story in that photograph really hit me’.
Winogrand became interested in photography while serving in the military as a weather forecaster. He defined a new approach to street photography in 1960s and 1970s. A relatively new book, The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand (published in March 2018), presents an inspiring and unusual overview from his life’s work, including many images that have never been seen before, along with his classic iconic photographs and some surprising early color work.
Winogrand takes photographs and captures many different gestures, facial expressions, body language and relationships. He is known for transforming photography – “…he transformed it from an art of observation to an art of participation”. People’s opinions of his work are extremely positive; “I was overwhelmed. They were the first photos that struck me as relating to the other modes of creation”.
I like the first two images partly because of the emotion on the man’s face, he appears to be happy and content in his current situation and nothing seems to be negatively effecting his mood. What I also like about these first images is the range of black and white tones after making the image greyscale.
I particularly like these two images, although you can’t see any emotion portrayed through these two photographs, the sunlight and saturated colours are eye-catching and they create a happy, positive atmosphere, leading the viewer to think the woman in the photography is also in a light-hearted mood. I also edited this image in black and white as the natural daylight contrasts strongly with the inside walls of the coffee shop, and the woman’s body, almost creating a silhouette.
These four images capture people’s attention being grasped by something that isn’t in the frame of the photograph, leading the viewer to wonder what could be the interesting things, people or events that has gripped their attention due to the different facial expressions and mannerisms; in the bottom right image a woman is pointing questionably at something, in the top right image the woman in the couple is admiring something above her, both creating a sense of mystery for the viewer.
I particularly like these two black and white images, the wide stride of both women create a sense of confidence and dominance. In the top image, the women walking in from each side creates a geometrical reflection, almost making it look like one woman is being mirrored to the other side of the photograph. There are strong contrasts of black and white tones, the highlights are bright because the image was taken in natural sunlight. The bodies of the women, along with the sun, create elongated shadows.
Double exposure photography refers to merging multiple images. The goal is to make them surreal, emotional, or humorous. They usually feature silhouettes. In photography and cinematography, multiple exposure is a technique in which the camera shutter is opened more than once to expose the film multiple times, usually to different images. The resulting image contains the subsequent image/s superimposed over the original. The technique is sometimes used as an artistic visual effect and can be used to create ghostly images or to add people and objects to a scene that were not originally there.
I used my studio photographs I had previously taken to create these final images with multiple exposures, I layered two or three images on top of my background image and lowered the percentage of opacity to make the top images transparent and ghostly.
