I will be taking picking inspired by the work of Ansel Adams, for example of rocky, sandy locations. Some locations I had in mind was Beauport Bay and the Sand dunes inspired by Adams photographs ‘ALONG THE JOHN MUIR TRAIL’, ‘SAND DUNES, OCEANO’ and ‘YOSEMITE VALLEY, THUNDER STORM’. Furthermore I will take images in some parts of Jerseys woods perhaps the one by Greve De Lecq or one by FB fields. I plan of doing my photoshoot throughout the weekend of the 19, 20 November, however due to the forecasting of the weather this may disrupt some photoshoots. However I believe I could take some unique picture of waves in story and windy conditions at St. Ouens bay or L’Etaq. I will borrow a camera from school and use the setting of a low ISO and the Aperture of around f/11 depending on the lighting of the landscape. I will be taking darker images as an inspiration of Ansel Adams to create more of a dramatic image.
Jem Southam is a British landscape photographer, born in Bristol in 1950. He studied creative photography at the London college of printing then worked at a gallery in Bristol from 1976 to 1982. Southam conducts long-term studies that trace over seasons and sometimes several years. His first project was in black and white, ‘The floating harbour’: a Landscape History of Bristol City Docks.
Jem Southam, The Floating Harbour, 1982.
Jem Southam
Fay Godwin
Fay Godwin was born in Berlin, Germany in 1931 and died in Hastings England in 2005. She first produced portraits of dozens of well-known writers and significant literary figures in the 1970’s and 80’s. In the 1990’s she was offered a fellowship at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford. This pushed her work in the direction of colour and urban documentary. She began taking photos of close-up natural forms
“My way into photography was through family snaps in the mid-1960s. I had no formal training, but after the snaps came portraits, reportage, and finally, through my love of walking, landscape photography, all in black and white. A Fellowship with the National Museum of Photography in Bradford led to urban landscape in colour, and very personal close-up work in colour has followed”.— Fay Godwin, ca. 2000
Fay Godwin
Don McCullin
Don McCullin was born in London in 1935. He has mild dyslexia but displayed a talent for drawing at the secondary modern school he went to. He later won a scholarship to Hammersmith school of Arts and Crafts, but because of the death of his father he left school at 15 and had no qualifications. Later on, in 1953 he was called up for national service with the Royal Air Force. Most of the images that McCullin has taken are related to war as he was part of the Air Force and was involved in different wars. He also photographed the land in his home town of Somerset, photographing marsh land and flooded areas.
because I am going to be photographing landscapes I am not going to include people or their faces, however sometimes there might be some people within the landscape which are far away , these usually will be random strangers.
what may be photographed are cliffs, streams, rocks, trees and other natural forms within the landscape. what I will try to avoid are man-made objects or buildings as well as technology as these don’t fit in the whole romanticism aspect and are further away from nature.
where I plan to photograph are the inner as well up more open places, like the beach and coastal areas, and good places for that would be L’etacq , St. Ones beach, and the north coast areas like Bonne Nuit or Greve de Lecq. Places I will try to avoid are towns or heavy populated areas as these may be beautiful but are not of nature and sublime I want to photograph.
Since it is autumn the weather will be in constant change this is why even if I have a selected day, like on this weekend, I should not be dependant on weather as if I would want to capture images with a lot of sun and lightning in them, on the day it may be stormy and dark. This is why I should be prepared for any weather and may need to repeat or have another photoshoot in other places, preferably within a couple days later.
when taking pictures of the landscape that has a lot of open area, meaning there is a lot of sky visible and not so much landscape, or half and half, for example like the beach , where half is sand, a bit of water and then the rest is sky, I will try to photograph these when the clouds are in an interesting colour or shape, or will make sure I edit them to achieve this. with the camera I will aim for different photographs or the same landscape but from different angles. my biggest aim is to capture as much landscape possible within the frame and maybe some with different depth of field.
The main reason why I want to photograph those locations, and in a certain type of way is because I want to respond to romanticism and the sublime in landscape photography. Through the images I also want to capture Jersey’s beauty that makes the images have awe and terror, make a person that is looking at the image astonished and intrigued.
