Over year twelve and thirteen I have covered many topics such as Nostalgia, Anthropocene, Home, Feminity/ Masculinity/ Identity and more. From these shoots I am going to revisit my favourite ones to help direct me towards a final idea for my personal study. I found some of these shoots more powerful than other ones, such as feminity, rural landscape photography, and long exposure portraits. I enjoyed the other shoots, but these three were my favourite, with my best outcomes. I also enjoyed my year twelve summer task ‘My Jersey’.
Rural Landscape
These were my best outcomes from this project:
My favourite part of this project was the pressure to capture light and shadows in the limited time given by nature, due to the fact the light was disappearing and changing. I might use some rural landscape photography in my personal study photoshoot to give a sense of surrounding in my personal life.
Feminity
This shoot wasn’t my strongest shoot, however I really like focusing on feminity as a subject because it is a big issue today that needs to be seen. Using photography to emphasise this issue is a really creative technique and I enjoyed the process of trying to show the power of females through Francesca Woodman’s inspiration.
Francesca’s Work
My Final Outcomes
I might consider feminity as a theme for my personal study, however if I was going to choose it I would combine it with my personal life and how feminity is shown through my past, and growing up as a female in a nostalgic sense.
Long Exposure Portraits
I experimented with Rembrandt and butterfly lighting in year twelve, and then moved onto long exposure photos with different colour gels for lights. These outcomes are also some of my favourite photos from the year. I really enjoyed the process of adjusting the shutter and achieving a balanced aperture and ISO to get the movement in the photo. These are some of the images:
I don’t think I would use this in my personal study, however going back and reviewing them gives me the opportunity to consider it.
Overall
Looking back on my old shoots and techniques I learnt, I revisited my ‘Nostalgia’ blog post. I find the positive mood given from nostalgia interesting and I like the idea of using it in my personal study.
A section of my blog post states ‘The personalities, possibilities, and events of the past are seen as a longing when associated with nostalgia, specifically the idea of “good old days”. People typically view the future more negatively , in contrast to the past as a more favourable thought. This is called diclinism when applied to one’s beliefs about society/ institution. It’s been expressed as “a trick of the mind” and as emotional approach to find comfort when the present day is dull.‘ I think revisiting the past with archived images from my childhood, then juxtaposing them with present day images could create a good piece. I might also photograph certain objects from my past that create nostalgia, and places that hold memories.