I want to explore the places from my childhood. Places like the Watersplash and the sand dunes at St. Ouens, The campsite at Greve De Lecq, Beuvelande, Fort Regent, Millbrook Park and even abandoned places that I have not visited in a very long time. These places mean a lot to me because I spent a lot of my childhood in these areas. I used to go to Millbrook every day after school, Every summer I would spend a lot of time at St. Ouens Bay and Greve De Lecq, On a rainy day when there’s nothing to do I would go to the jungle gym at Fort Regent. And I’ll always remember the times when me and my friends would sneak into abandoned places, places like the unfinished car park at the fort, the abandoned brewery and even the abandoned cable cars when they were still up. During development, I want to take a mix of observational photos and tableaux photos. I want to set a general aesthetic for all of my photos by trying various editing techniques to make the photos look distorted and more interesting. I can do this by adding blur, changing the colour levels and using things like AI to enhance the photos, I want to try putting the photos on a polaroid printout too, to really convey a nostalgic feel. An edit I really want to do is the “Clone” edit, where I take multiple photos with the camera in the same fixed position but with me in different locations, then putting all of them together. I have done this in GCSE and I intend on improving and doing it again. I also want to add some actually old photos that were taken in some areas and have a new one for comparison. Another thing I want to try is having any text be placed behind objects, mainly for the cover and the title. I want to try and have this entire project be presented in a photobook but may try and make a short film too. The photobook has been decided because most photos traditionally are kept in these books and since I am producing nostalgic photos I feel it would be very fitting to have the project be displayed in one. My photos will be taking some inspiration from several artists such as Will Lakeman, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Gustave Le Gray, Stephanie Jung and Robert Clayton.
I took these images at St. Johns football pitch as I would occasionally go and use this pitch when I was younger.
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Image selection- I flagged the images I wanted to edit by using ‘P’ and ‘X’. There weren’t many images that fit my vision so I only selected a few images to edit.
Basic Edits
Again, I had a mix of colour image and black and white images to demonstrate our childhood memories and the present.
I took these se of images at Rozel football pitch. These images are important to me as this is the pitch belongs to the first club I played for.
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Image selection- I flagged the images that I wanted to edit by using ‘P’ and ‘X’
Basic Editing
I chose to edit these image in a mix of coloured images and black and white images as this is the pitch where me and my sister would train together for Rozel girls on a Saturday. This is a key part of both our childhoods as we both shared a love for football. I decided to edit the training pitch images in black and white to show that these images hold memories and are from our past. I then decided to edit the main pitch images in colour as I still play at this pitch and it’s still apart of our lives as my sister comes and watches me paly.
Image selection- I selected the images that I though were good enough to be edited by using ‘P’ and ‘X’
Basic Edits
When editing these I wanted to show that this pitch isn’t from my childhood as most of the images are in colour. I wanted the images to be quite vibrant and lively as this pitch is currently apart of mine and my sisters life’s as she come to watch me play here
I then colour coded my images to help me with the process of deciding what images I want to put in my photobook
I took these set of images at the airport playing fields. The pitch is significant to me as it is where I played my first senior game.
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Image selection- I flagged the images I wanted to edit by using ‘P’ and ‘X’
Basic Editing
When editing these images I wanted some of them be in colour as this pitch is still part of my life but now as a coach instead of a player. I also edited some images in black and white to show that this pitch is part of past.
I then went through my images and colour coded them on weather I wanted them in my photobook or not.
I took a small collection of images on Christmas Day when my dad went for a swim, I also later took more environmental portraits in the home and some establishing shots of the surfboard/wetsuit/surf book collections that can be found in our house.
with my photoshoots I am planning on doing night photography so I will be going out during the darker hours of the day I will be going around the island talking photos of urban and abandoned buildings and objects I will also try and paint with light. how I will be painting with light I will up how long the photo is taken for and then go around the photo shinning lights on different objects and things the light I can get a filter for to make the light a different colour.
Locations
there are loads of abandoned building and unusual places to visit and take photos of however I do not know the names of some of them so I will try my best to describe the locations of them. The abandoned building behind Waitrose in St Clements, a abandoned places near a car park near fort regent, bunkers, a abandoned hotel near the coast of Jersey. I am not to sure of many other locations at this time however when I do photoshoots I will make a blog post talking about the photos and how I took the photos and also the locations of the places.
For this project, I also wanted to include some photos from my grandad’s own home, therefore I used the pictures I took earlier this year, when I went over for the summer.
