This was my first photoshoot of my Anthropocene project. I went to AAl’s recycling centre at la Collette in order to photoshoot his new wash plant that is used to clean waste materials from demolition sites and make it a useable material that is sold off to other companies and private projects.

I followed my photoshoot plan and managed to get many photos in the short time i was granted access.

I went through all my images from my La Collette photoshoot 1 and selected any pictures that i believe had potential.

Next i used the rating tool in order to narrow my images down even more in order to distinguish images that can be my finals. i used 3, 4 and 5 stars. I only selected images rated 4 or 5 stars to continue in the selection proses.

My next method of image selection was using colour coding to see which images are the best. Red is the images that will not make the final cut, yellow is the images that i will keep available incase i do decide to use them and green are the images that i am going to develop into my final images.

After consideration of my highly rated pictures i have decided that these 9 images will be my final images for this photoshoot.

Final Images

For all of my Final Images i have increased the texture and the clarity. I feel that this gives the effect of industrialisation and shows the industry that these machines are working in as well as what they are creating.

Black and White

I also developed each of my best images in black and white in order to provide some more contrast between the colours. However i still believe that the images in colour look better.

Photo Gallery

Evaluation

Overall I am very happy with my first shoot. I was lucky to get the opportunity to photograph this private facility. I was given a tour of the wash plant that allowed me to get to all areas of the plant however many of these images did not work out. This was due to the images of the inner workings of the machine meaning very little without the context of the rest of the machine and wouldn’t mean anything to a viewer who had not seen the entire machine at work. However images taken outside of components that are clearly recognisable such as the diggers that load or the conveyor belt came out as some really nice images.

Photoshoot Plans

Photoshoot 1	Photoshoot 2
La Collette Industrial Area	Fort Regent
St Helier	St Helier
View from ground	View from above
Middle of day	Late afternoon
Theme- Overconsumption	Theme- Overpopulation
Portrait and Landscape	Landscape
Inside and outside	Outside only
Manual setting	Manual setting

Contact Sheets

Photoshoot 1

Here I have included some contact sheets from my first photoshoot, I had over 400 images to put into the correct collection and these are just the screenshots so that an overview of my photoshoot can be visualised, this area of the recycling centre and the incinerator had a wide variety of photoshoot opportunities so I left with a wide range of interesting images.

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I have included these three closer up sections because I think they are strong points in my photoshoots and some many even turn into my final images. These images have some of the most potential and their legibility elevates the quality.

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Assessment of Photoshoot

I think that this photoshoot was the best out of the two, I have a good range of images from this shoot and I think for the most part, the lighting was accurate on both the inside and the outside photoshoots, making the next editing processes easier. Furthermore, I think that gaining inside access to the recycling centre allowed me to take better photographs and this is especially obvious in some of my more abstract images. The photographs taken from the outside did turn out better because I had my camera on the correct manual settings for this.

Photoshoot 2

Below I have included some contact sheets from my second photoshoot, I didn’t have as many photographs from this shoot but I think that they can still be put to good and relevant use throughout my project. I have included closer up sections of the contact sheets so that the variety of images can be viewed easier.

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These images were taken from the highest point during the photoshoot, giving the best view of the population and this will aid in linking to my project.

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Assessment of Photoshoot

I think this photoshoot only had limited success as I wasn’t able to take as many photographs from the Fort Regent location. However, I do still think I have some useable images but in contrast to the other shoot I don’t have as much creative freedom with these images. I think the best part was the day of my photoshoot, it was a clear and sunny day which created high quality legible photographs.

these are my contact sheets with a variety of different photos from the water front and le collet

harve de pas to le collet

I am using this photo shoot as it is a large industrial site and i feel that it strongly links to the theme of this project

Waterfront

i am using this photoshoot as it is a large piece of reclaimed land which i feel connects to Anthropocene and how humans are changing the world as well as large building sites there

Ronez quarry

i am also planning to do a photoshoot at ronez as it is a large quarrey in jersey which is a great physical way of showing humans impact on the earth

For this photoshoot I went on a walk around and took photos in a variety of areas and from a range of different angles, making sure to take plenty of natural environments, rural environments and some rubbish that I found along the way as I knew I would need a variety of different photos for my project. I decided to go on a walk around 1pm as I knew it would be well lit outside and I would have the opportunity to take bright photos of the locations I chose to go to.

In order to find and choose my best shots, I began by flagging the photos which were of good quality [i.e: had good lighting, weren’t blurry etc.] and discarding the one’s that I didn’t think would be usable via Lightroom, making it easier for me to distinguish my higher quality photos from my lower quality images.

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Next, I went through all the photos I flagged and gave a yellow colour label to any images that I wanted to use at any point throughout the project either due to their quality or how the linked in to my ideas for my final outcome. I also ended up flagging any photos that had rubbish in them as blue so it would be easier to find them later on rather than having to search through all my images again.

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After I finished colour coding my photos, I was left with 78 images that I wanted to use for my project.

Some of my best shots:

For my Anthropocene mock exam, I managed to complete 3 photoshoots in preparation. I managed to take photos in locations such as, La Collette, the quarry, and derelict buildings. I took a range of 150-200 photos in total and narrowed it down to around 20 possible further edits which I could use for my final images.

Contact Sheets:

To decide which images I am going to further edit I used the flag pick tool to go through my images and choose which images I believe are useable and can be edited. I did this because some of my images came out in either very bad quality or bad angles and lighting.

I then used the rating tool to rate my selected images from a rating of 1-5 to narrow down my images even further. I picked a total of 9 images which I rated 5 stars meaning they are useable for my editing.

Photoshoot Review

My aim was to complete 3 photoshoots which I managed to do gaining around 250 photos. In my first photoshoot I took around 75-100 images, in my second photoshoot I took 50-75 images and in my final and third photoshoot I took around 100 images. With a total of around 250 photos I have enough images to successfully edit and manipulate to create high quality final pieces. My best photoshoot was located at the industrial area next to La Collette because of how many structures and buildings that link to the idea of Anthropocene. There were structures such as an incinerator, recycling centre, car dump and water tanks. On my quarry photoshoot I didn’t manage to take a huge range of photos because of there only being one area that I photographed from the same angles.

Edward Burtynsky

Ed Burtynsky is a Canadian photographer and artist known for his large format photographs of industrial landscapes. His works depict locations from around the world that represent the increasing development of industrialization and its impacts on nature and the human existence.

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Jennifer Baichwal 

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Nicholas de Pencier

Nicholas de Pencier is a Canadian cinematographer and filmmaker. The spouse and professional partner of filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal in Mercury Films, he is the cinematographer and producer on most of her films as well as codirector of the films Long Time Running. and Anthropocene: The Human Epoch.

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Ingrid Weyland

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The Anthropocene Project is a multidisciplinary body of work combining fine art photography, film, virtual reality, augmented reality, and scientific research to investigate human influence on the state, dynamic, and future of the Earth.

Mind map of ideas

These are the style of photos that i am mainly going to focus on whilst taking photos. The black and white creates more effect linking in with Anthropocene. Landscapes bring more meaning into the photograph as it is what you are surrounded by everyday potentially not realising.

The darker tones in the pictures link in with Anthropocene supposedly suggesting how we are destroying nature which is seen by having a dark effect on the photographs.