Mind Map

Below I have included my first set of ideas for this ‘Islandness’ personal study, this is a good visual representation of what topics come to mind when analysing the meaning of the word Islandness. Researching for the images meant that I began to think about what photographing all of these different topics would look like and helps me decide the topics I would like to explore in my personal study throughout my future project.

Mood Board

I have additionally created a mood board to illustrate some more images which relate to my mind map above, as these are some examples of different images which demonstrate the themes above. Furthermore, this is good as it shows how the different images look grouped together and helps me analyse which themes could even be merged together and linked up so that I can develop these ideas and make them unique to my personal study.

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Future Project

Below I have created an additional mind map to illustrate my ideas for not only the theme of ‘Islandness’ but for my personal study, this is to help me think in depth about the ideas that will be the most manageable for my future studies. These are just my first ideas for my personal study so I may not even develop these ideas, this is just from looking at the mind map above and considering what ideas were my strongest work and the projects were the most enjoyable when creating my ‘Review and Reflect’ blog post.

I like that this mind map is simple and easy to follow, I have used images from my past projects to illustrate that I will take inspiration from my past projects and these will be heavily influential for my personal study. I think this is because I work better from adapting my older ideas and making them more detailed and complex. I like that I can use these images and recreate them, as having so many different types (final images and zines) and styles of visual inspiration means that I can just take out the parts of these topics/ projects that I am not interested in and maybe even combine them all together to attempt to create the most successful final project I can.

Identity

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With my identity project I felt I managed to depict the meaning of ‘identity’ well with my images, i went into depth with the editing of my images in Lightroom and photoshop. With my images I feel I managed to take inspiration from my artist references without directly copying them. If I could go back and redo this project I would make sure to have a much wider range of photos in different locations and different poses, facial expressions, as I only captured a few, and i would have liked to have a variation of photos taken in different lighting and setting. Because this was one of my first projects in photography, I believe I could have done more in my project to receive a better grade and final outcome.

Anthropocene

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In this project i think my images could have been edited better and given a better outcome as they are plain and there is not much going on, i could have represented Anthropocene better through my development of images. However i did enjoy this project as i got to take a variety of pictures round jersey which was very enjoyable.

My Rock

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This was my favourite project to take part in as photographing jerseys natural landscape is very fulfilling. I had fun creating my photo zine and editing all my different images in Lightroom motley but also photoshop, it was a very nice project going around jersey and really admiring the landscape. Learning how to use InDesign as well was interesting.