This is a photoshoot I took in the summer of 2022, however I believe it links with my landscape project. The harsh waves at St. Ouens beach creates the image more fascinating, interesting and more appealing to the eye. When I come to editing these photos I will change a few to black and white to see the results, however I would like to experiment with the hues and saturations to see if I could make my images for vivid and dramatic in colour.
SELECTING MY BEST IMAGES
In Lightroom Classic I was selecting my images with the ones that have the most powerful waves, yet fit with the composition. The images marked red, the waves where distracting from the landscape of the sunset or blocking the natural light creating an awkward image.
In this screenshot I was selecting my images. The photos I have highlighted in green are my best takes of beach and rocks landscapes which I could possibly use for my final outcome. The photos highlighted in red are my worst photos that are not as high quality or not the right idea I had it mind, these are the ones I know I will not be using throughout my landscape project. During my editing I will change my images to black and white to create a more dramatic image, my editing will be inspired my Ansel Adams black and white photographs.
This quote is significant and a famous quote in the photography industry, as it shows the importance of photography and how well thought out it is. Adams says that ‘you make it’ which implies that a photographer takes time to plan his photos out to create the desired outcome, this implies that photography is made the same way you make a piece of artwork.
Ansel Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. Ansel Adams was an advocate of environmental protection, national parks and creating an enduring legacy of responses to the power of nature and sublime conditions. Drawn to the beauty of nature’s monuments, he is regarded by environmentalists as a monument himself, and by photographers as a national institution.
During the Great Depression, the citizens of America looked towards the West and the opportunities it offered, particularly through massive public works projects. Ansel Adams was one of the original members of the group. The first attempt in spreading their visual ideas was the 1932 exhibition of eighty of their photographs held at the M.H.
This example of Adams photography shows how different films can affect the image. The ‘Monolith, the face of Half Dome, 1927‘ photo supports this on how a red film looks different from a yellow film. The image on the left shows the outcome of a photo created with red film, the image is darker and more dramatic which is what we believe Adams was trying to do. However the image used by the yellow film is a subtle black and white images with a slightly high exposure.
Pixilation of Half Dome on photoshop
IMAGE ANALYSIS:
The Grand Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
This Ansel Adams image shows a dramatic landscape of the Grand Tetons and The snake river. The leading lines follow the river to the focal point of the image of the mountains. Due to the dark corner bottoms thirds, following the rule of thirds, and the slightly dark vignette around the image it highlights the light and shape in the clouds, its shows the light beaming through the clouds onto the mountains. The tone of the image is dark however there is some light beaming from the clouds and glistening in the river, overall I think this image is balanced with the different tones of greys, blacks and whites while the composition also being balanced.
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.
Rural landscape photography refers to “photography in the countryside” and covers the rural environment. Landscape photography shows the spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times microscopic. Landscape photographs typically capture the presence of nature but can also focus on man-made features or disturbances of landscapes.
According to the article titled “Romanticism and Its Relation to Landscape Photography & Painting”, romanticism was an art form that rejected classicalism and focused on nature, imagination and emotion. Romanticism focused and emphasised on the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental.
The Sublime is a western aesthetic concept of ‘the exalted’ of ‘beauty that is grand and dangerous’. The Sublime refers to the wild, unbounded grandeur of nature, it relates to threat and agony, to spaces where calamities happen or things run beyond human control.
The theory of sublime art was put forward by Edmund Burke in A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful published in 1757.
For my final outcome I decided to mount this A3 image. I chose this image because it was simplistic yet due to the editing it had a unique difference. I found this final piece challenging as I had never done anything like this before and had never experienced using the tools I needed to. For this final outcome I created a window mount to make a high quality smart image so I could avoid creating an unprofessional outcome.
EVALUATION:
Reflecting on this fragment of my project of ‘HOME’ I believe that it was a challenging and informative experience. I discovered how to use a online blog and how to create creative and smart blog posts to the best of my ability, this was one of the first challenges and differences I had to overcome because I had never used a internet blog before. I have taken a numerous amount of photoshoots which lead to me having a variety of images so I could create more unique edits, however I am aware that I have not worked on photoshop nor used it to the best of my abilities. Therefore I hope in my future projects I show my progress and abilities on photoshop and make time to create more edits, as I believe that it was my blog is lacking. I also believe I should take more images and inspect my images so I have a clear view of the images so I know later in editing I know what images I have and have an easier work. However taking this all into consideration I will use this to improve on in my next project, and I hope in future projects I can act thorough throughout this project.
Virtual Gallery – Alice Jakubowska’s Home Objects 2022
CREATING MY VIRTUAL GALLERY
When creating my virtual gallery I used the app photoshop. I decided which images were my strongest during this project so far and mounted them digitally on the frames in the gallery. I downloaded a template of a gallery from the internet so I could add my images. I individually placed each picture of the frame and used the transform tool (CTRL T) to change the sizing. Furthermore using the transform tool I used the ‘skew’ and ‘distort’ to perfectly mount the image on the angles.
A photomontage is a collage constructed from photographs. Historically, the technique has been used to make political statements and gained popularity in the early 20th century (World War 1-World War 2). Artists such as Raoul Haussman , Hannah Hoch, John Heartfield employed cut-n-paste techniques as a form of propaganda, as did Soviet artists like Aleksander Rodchenko and El Lissitsky. Photomontage has its roots in dadaism, which is closely related to surrrealism.
Hannah Hoch – Kustige Person, 1932
The Art Critic
Domestika analog collage
MY PHOTOMONTAGE:
Digital and Analogue Photomontage
I created a series of digital montages selecting parts of the images and placing them in a similar space on another. I used images from the same photoshoot so there was a connection between the two photos. I also used a black and white image to show a deeper affect of the edit.
When creating my analogue montage piece, I tried to include elements from the image to show the relationship between the image such as using masking tape that was in the image and red tape to further show the link between the image while additionally show the relevance during the making of this piece. I used the string to add some texture and to create a new abstract unique piece.
