WHY THE TOPIC OF PLASTICS FOR ANTHROPOCENE?

I chose to base my Anthropocene project on plastics. Mankind is becoming dependent on plastic; using it everyday yet all these plastic items are slowly destroying Earth. Mankind is become careless about the way they treat the world and the consequences that faces are due to all the polluting of non-reusables items. My project is supposed to highlight how much plastics we are consuming and showing how much plastic we use on a daily basis.

HOW DID I PLAN THIS PROJECT?

I wanted to show the variety of waste we use in a week that gets burnt or thrown into the sea, this is why I extended my project further from just plastic items to cans and other waste products. I began collecting things from around my house that we use on a daily basis and then collected after a week how many plastic bottles we went through.

PHOTOSHOOT AND EDITING:

I took the pictures in the Hautlieu Photography Studio. This is so they could look more professional. This is because i wanted to use studio lighting to make sure its evenly photographed. I wanted my images to show impact like Mandy Barkers images, I used inspiration from her using a black background to attract the eyes to the colours; I wanted my photos to make a statement. At the beginning I edited my images in Lightroom Classic to reduced exposure and increased the contrast, however later I decided to do some experimentation in Photoshop. I wanted to create abstract images like Mandy Barker.

WHAT WENT WRONG IN THIS PROJECT?

During this project it was difficult to collect objects from my house, mainly because people forgot and threw away the plastics. However the most challenging part was to plan the project out. Planning the project is the most crucial part of the project because if you miss or forget to do something your behind. Furthermore when I was in the studio I thought I had taken more images however when I came back I only had 35, this made things difficult because I didn’t have a wide range of images to work with in editing.

DIGITAL VERSION OF FINAL PIECE:

EVALUATION OF WHOLE LANDSCAPE PROJECT:

Reflecting on my Landscape project I believe it improved from my first part of my ‘HOME’ project. My blog posts have been becoming regular and creative to look at. My blog posts are minimal with information filled with many links to sites with further information or websites I’ve taken information from. Planning my photoshoots and working overtime has been the most challenging part for me in this project. The weather was rainy and not ideal to take most of my Landscape images, however when I took my ‘WAVE’ images the windy rainy weather created a more dramatic feel to the images. In my next project I will try to expand my blog posts with my writing and more analytical with artist reference and my images; more analysing. Furthermore I need to make time to take my photoshoots so I have a wider range of images to work with when it come to editing.