Final Outcomes
The idea behind my final images was to portray nature through the use of vibrant colours and derelict man-made structures. The contrast of colours creates this effect which makes the natural parts of the photo stand out as beautiful, while making the man-made parts of the photo feel very dull. This is to portray nature as very pleasant, unique and full of life, and to portray the man-made structures as very boring, repetitive and almost trying to shadow over nature. This portrayal through the images I believe relates to Anthropocene very well.
Galleries
Artsteps Virtual Gallery:
https://www.artsteps.com/curate/628e26f11ca4f84865318175/5
Evaluation and Critique
Evaluation
Overall, I am very happy with my final edits. The edits created which are inspired by the artists I studied greatly compare to them in everything from looks, lighting and the colours seen in the images. They also fit into the theme of Anthropocene very well in my opinion. My other edits, where I created photo-montage type images, I am also very happy with. My aim with them was to create unique and cool images which is exactly how I believe they turned out. These edits also fit into the theme of Anthropocene very well also. To improve my artist inspired work, I would have during different times of the day, such as early morning or at night-time. Doing this would have given my a wider range of images to edit. To improve my other edits, I would have taken more photographs of tall buildings, building sites and natural landscapes in order to be able to create more montages with buildings and landscapes like the two above.
Although I aimed to take 3 photoshoots with at least 100 photos in each, I managed to get 2 photoshoots. Even though I only did 2 photoshoots I was able to get 222 photos in shoot 1 and 321 photos in shoot 2 which was well above the amount of photos I aimed to take. With a total of 543 photos I believe I have more than enough photos for me to create the most effective final images for the Anthropocene project. I believe the quality of the photos I have taken overall are quite good and I managed to photograph the locations I planned on photographing, a couple of photos I have taken have not come out as I would have liked as some have been blurry, too bright or too dark. Using the different filtering techniques on Lightroom I am happy with the final selection of images I will be using for editing and manipulation with Lightroom and Photoshop in order to come up with the best possible final outcomes I am able to produce.
Critique
I could have improved on my work by using more of the photos that I had edited in Lightroom, I chose not to use some of them as I was not sure how I would implement them into my work. If I was able to use them in my work I could have improved upon my final edits. I could have also done a third photoshoot to have more photos to work with to produce better or more final outcomes. If I also took photos during the night time I could have produced images which fit better with one of my researched artists, Troy Paiva. I was also not able to produce any photos inspired by another photographer I studied, Edward Butnysky, but a third photoshoot would have most likely enabled me to produce photos based off of his work. Overall I believe I did very well with the Anthropocene topic much higher than my expectations although there was room for improvement.