This photoshoot will be a response to Sonia Bhamra’s ‘A Surreal Landscape’ project, which, in a generalised sense, is a series of surreal/abstract landscape images that involve nature and colour. Bhamra’s final images each have an unnatural/surreal colour scheme, which gives it an abstract feel, however, the images themselves, with no editing, are fairly traditional in terms of subject matter and composition.
Photographs from Bhamra’s Project:
These are the style of images I will aim for at the end of this photoshoot (as well as the editing process).
Plan:
| What? | I will take landscape images within a natural environment (woods). Like Bhamra’s work, I will aim to make these images seem like regular, non-surreal (pre-editing) images so that I can focus on the composition of the original images rather than the editing part. |
| Where? | I will take pictures of a woodland area near my house as it has landscapes similar to those depicted in Bhamra’s work (minus the odd colours). These areas will give me access to a different kind of landscape to Bhamra’s work as well as it has some rural roads/paths which could offer an urban contrast. |
| When? | I will try to take pictures later in the day in order to get a greater contrast in terms of light and shadow. More intense sunset lighting will also help bring out the colours in the landscape which will translate nicely into what I am aiming to turn the images into. |
| Why? | I think Bhamra’s work and the message it portrays is similar to what I am trying to achieve in this personal study, as such I think studying her work and responding to it will be a good way to start off my project. |
