Why did I choose Agriculture for Anthropocene?

I chose to do agriculture for this project as Jersey struggles with the pollution caused by agriculture that eventually ends up washing into our oceans. I also chose this topic as I thought i could capture some abstract images as well as landscape ones.

How did i plan?

originally, i planned to complete 3 photoshoots: agriculture, plastics and oil pollution in the sea. However, I was only able to complete 2 of the photoshoots, agriculture and plastics. Although i was only able to complete two of the photoshoots, it put me at an advantage as it would of been hard to find oil pollution in the sea in Jersey. This photoshoot was hard as the weather has been very dark, gloomy and rainy, so I chose to do the photoshoot on days where it was not raining. Even when it wasn’t raining the lighting was always very dim so this was hard.

Photoshoot – experimenting with editing

My photoshoots were carried out along the front on St Helier/ St Aubin’s beach. The plan was to photograph the pollution caused by agriculture so I found the different drains spread along the beach to photograph. The lighting was gradually becoming darker throughout the shoot so this was challenging to work with, however, it gave me a variety of different images with different lightings to work with.

What went well and what could have been done better?

on a whole, I feel my mock exam would have turned out a lot better if I had more time to complete the photoshoots. I wasn’t able to complete the photoshoots i initially had planned so i wasn’t happy with this. Also, with the photoshoots i did complete, particularly the beach photoshoot i did, i feel would have went a lot better if i had more time to do the same shoot on different days. This would allow me to photograph in a range of different lights. I was unable to do this as it was difficult to get out when it wasn’t raining or really cloudy, as the weather was bad. On top of all of this, i didn’t give myself as much time as i should of to complete the photoshoots.

Although i feel there was lot’s of negatives to this photoshoot, during this exam and looking at my final outcomes, i am very happy with my images. I was able to edit them on photoshop and Lightroom to a way i wanted them. As a result of not having time to do multiple shoots for this photoshoot, i was left with a range of different photos. From the landscape of the sea, to the photos of the drains, so i am overall very happy with my final outcomes.

With the plastic photoshoot i did, i was able to collect plastic and rubbish, however, i struggled when actually carrying out the photoshoot as it was difficult to get the angles and lighting right.

With this photoshoot, i was able to do a shoot in the school studio and one at home; this allowed me to have a variety of images under the same photoshoot, with different backgrounds, angles and subjects. I was happy with the way this photoshoot came out, in comparison to my artist references. However, i felt my final images from the beach photoshoot were stronger then the plastics photoshoot, so i used those as my final images to put in the print folder.

Overall evaluation on Anthropocene:

I enjoyed doing this project but wish I had more time to complete my photoshoots to my best ability, I am pleased with my final outcomes however I do think they are limited and that i could do much better and more on task outcomes.