I edited these photos to relate to the Anthropocene project ‘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.’ I didn’t like the outcome too much so i chose not to include in my final outcomes.

Experiments

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These images i experimented with i mainly used photoshop by layering different images onto each other to add certain effect. I.e how we harm the environment and how that can affect certain people who are trying to protect it. Other images i experimented on i just focused on the lighting and positioning of objects so the photo can tell its own story.

Best images

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Editing

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For this image i went on photoshop and dragged one image over the other, i then changed the opacity so they would layer nicely. I then sharpened around the sides there was a more dramatic effect.

Comparison

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I edited this picture so it would relate to one of my artists photographs that i studied by using the smudge tool so create a blurred photo effect which Sara Cuce uses.

Each of these photographs have been edited into black and white, i mainly experimented on landscapes because there is a wider range of landscapes that can be photographed.

Editing

I mainly adjusted exposure and shadows for my photographs so then when put in black and white they gave a darker looking effect. I think by adjusting the images have made them look more presentable and visually more interesting.

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.

William Eggleston

Since the early 1960s, William Eggleston used colour photographs to describe the cultural transformations in Tennessee and the rural South. He registers these changes in scenes of everyday life, such as portraits of family and friends, as well as gasoline stations, cars, and shop interiors. Switching from black and white to colour, his response to the vibrancy of post-war consumer culture and America’s bright promise of a better life paralleled Pop art’s fascination with consumerism.

Analysis

This image captures a shot of reality, the black and white adds impact to the viewer making the photo more intriguing as it creates more attraction as other colours aren’t distracting you and allows you to focus on textures and you aren’t looking at other aspect the image includes.  

Eggleston’s “snapshot aesthetic” speaks to new cultural phenomena as it relates to photography: from the Polaroid’s instantaneous images, the way things slip in and out of view in the camera lens, and our constantly shifting attention. Eggleston captures how ephemeral things represent human presence in the world, while playing with the idea of experience and memory and our perceptions of things to make them feel personal and intimate.

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Mood board

final images

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About

 He began to photograph birds and landscapes with a Kodak box camera as a child. In 1933 he was powerfully moved by the photographs of Ansel Adams, who encouraged him to work with a large-format camera.

Throughout his career, he also travelled and photographed locations of cultural significance. The locations that he photographed were Utah, California, Maine, Antarctica, Iceland, East Africa, Mexico, Egypt, China, Greece, and Czechoslovakia. 

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 His work

He developed a vision of the landscape that looked closer, caught the natural chaos of the wild but in a way that showed the hidden structures. He is the forefather of colour landscape photography.

He would frequently intensify blues, greens and reds while enriching the texture of trees, rocks and flowing streams to give his images a painterly aesthetic.

biography

Robert Adams was born in Orange, New Jersey, in 1937. His refined black-and-white photographs document scenes of the American West of the past four decades, revealing the impact of human activity on the last vestiges of wilderness and open space. Although often devoid of human subjects, or sparsely populated, Adams’s photographs capture the physical traces of human life: a garbage-strewn roadside, a clear-cut forest, a half-built house. An underlying tension in Adams’s body of work is the contradiction between landscapes visibly transformed or scarred by human presence and the inherent beauty of light and land rendered by the camera.

photography

Adams’s complex photographs expose the hollowness of the nineteenth-century American doctrine of Manifest Destiny, expressing sombre indignation at the idea (still alive in the twenty-first century) that the West represents an unlimited natural resource for human consumption. But his work also conveys hope that change can be effected, and it speaks with joy of what remains glorious in the West. Adams received a BA from the University of Redlands in California and a PhD in English from the University of Southern California. He has received numerous awards, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award (1994); the Spectrum International Prize for Photography (1995); and the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize (2006). Major exhibitions include San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2005); Yale University Art Gallery (2002); Denver Art Museum (1993); Philadelphia Museum of Art (1989); and the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1979). Adams lives and works in north-western Oregon.

I will be using this as a reference towards my photographs as it will help guide me. I will mainly focus on taking photos during the day as it is easier to capture shots in the daylight and i preferably think that photos look better during the day as you can edit and change them to how you like, i will experiment taking some in the dark to expand my work and use of skill.

Who is he?

An American photographer who has focused on the changing landscape of the American West. His work first came to prominence in the mid-1970s through his book The New West and his participation in the exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape in 1975.

 In the 1970s and 1980s he produced a series of books, The New West, Denver, What We Bought, Summer Nights which focused on expanding suburbs along Colorado’s Front Range, books that pictured heedless development but also the surviving light, scale, form, and silence of the natural world. He also examined this mixture of humanity’s imprint and nature’s resilience in the wider western landscape he has also occasionally published smaller, sometimes more personal volumes.

His work

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These photographs are what I am going to mainly base mine on, following his widely spread landscapes.