I went out to greve de lecq on a Saturday when it was raining and took multiple images of the sea and rocks. Ideally wanted to do nit on a sunny day but struggled as it was raining all week
First I imported my images into Lightroom classic and the I flagged the ones that I wanted to keep and edit.
Then I duplicated my images and edited them black and white them black and white.
After I edited my images that where is colour and added more vibrance and warmth to them.
These are my final images from my first photoshoot.
I feel that these two pictures are similar due to the display of the objects and the movement of water. The first image is taken by Ansel Adams and the second is from my first photoshoot .
Exposure bracketing is a technique where, instead of taking a single photo, you take multiple that are all exposed slightly differently; normally one is correctly exposed, one slightly underexposed, and one slightly overexposed.
We went round the school testing exposure bracketing by using the different settings on the camera. We created light and dark images by changing the exposure with the numbers on the ‘M’ setting. Changing the numbers lower e.g -2 to create a darker image and higher e.g +2 it would make the image over exposed and much lighter.
John Constable was an English landscape who was Born in Suffolk, England he is known for revolutionising the genre of landscape “I should paint my own places best”, he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, “painting is but another word for feeling”. Most of John Constables paintings were based around where he grew up” When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture”.
The painting depicts a rural scene on the River Stour between the English counties of Suffolk and Essex.
The image above is one of his most famous landscape paintings, where John presents a picture of farm life in the 18th century. Towards the left of the painting, The Building was owned by a Constable’s father and was later rented out by a farmer, which was said to have been born in the cottage and only spent a total of four days away from it. Constable’s father owned 90 acres of land surrounding this painting. John grew up in an upper class family who avoided struggle, This is not represented in his paintings as they include people from a working class background who got significantly less money than johns family. The painting “Haywain” alone shows a peaceful day compared to the crisis that was happening around them.
Ansel Adams was born on February 20, 1902 and died on April 22, 1984 He was well known as an American landscape photographer and environmentalist who specialised in his black and white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64 which is an association of photographers advocating “pure” photography which favoured sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph. He joined the Sierra Club in 1919, which was an environmental group established to preserve the natural wilderness of the Yosemite Sierra. During the group’s hikes and camping trips, Ansel was able to soak up the sublime wonder of the landscape. It was then that he began his career as a pioneering American photographer. Adams then published his first photographs in the club’s 1922 bulletin. Adams also claimed the he would “vision” his image before taking it because he wanted to capture what he could exactly what he saw in the present.
These are some pictures of his work.
The term f/64 refers to a small aperture setting on a large format camera, which secures great depth of field, rendering a photograph evenly sharp from foreground to background.
Group f/64 was created when Ansel Adams and Willard Van Dyke, an apprentice of Edward Weston, decided to organize some of their fellow photographers to promote a common aesthetic principle. In 1930s Van Dyke established a small photography gallery in his home. He called the gallery 683 in honour of the name of his house “as our way of thumbing our nose at the New York people who didn’t know us”, a direct reference to Stieglitz and his earlier New York gallery called 291. Van Dyke’s home/gallery became a gathering place for a close circle of photographers that eventually became the core of Group f/64. Many different Photographers gathered at Van Dyke’s home decided to put together a group exhibition of their work. They convinced the director at the de Young Museum to give them the space, and on November 15, 1932, the first exhibition of Group f/64 opened to large crowds. The group members in the exhibition were Ansel Adams (10 photographs),. Four other photographer were invited to join the exhibition, each contributing four photographs. Edward Weston’s prints were priced at $15 each; all of the others were $10 each. The show ran for six weeks.
To create this picture he put a red colour filter at the end of his lens to manipulate the shades and tones of the photo, this gave the photo a monochrome look and feel.
The 4 places that i have put ovals around are where i am considering doing my photoshoot. These places consist of Greve De Lecq, Plemont, Portelet Bay and Rozel Bay
I am going to be taking photos of natural landscapes such as beaches, cliffs and fields while trying to avoid man made objects such as houses and cars. I am also going to try and avoid capturing people in my photos up close. I haven’t decided if I am going to create the images in monochrome inspired from Ansel Adams or keep the colour in the picture inspired by Josef Schultz, Another aspect which will help determine my decision is what the weather is like as I plan to go out on the 19th or 20th of November. If the weather is windy and raining I will be able to capture more lively and chaotic pictures due the waves and the trees being effected by this, or if its more of a clam day and bright. I would be able to capture more light which would differ the colour of the picture.
landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, whether they are natural or man-made features, A landscape includes the physical elements of a place such as mountains, hills, water bodies such as rivers, lakes, ponds and the sea.
The plan of places of natural landscapes in jersey
romanticism is a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century helping to emphasise inspiration and subjectivity. According to the article titled “Romanticism and Its Relation to Landscape Photography & Painting”, romanticism wasan art form that rejected classicalism and focused on nature, imagination and emotion.
History of romanticism ?
Romanticism originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. Romanticism was characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism, idealization of nature, suspicion of science and industrialization, and glorification of the past with a strong preference for the medieval rather than the classical. It was partly a reaction to the Industrial Revolution. It was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature, but had a major impact on historiography and education.
5 Elements of Romanticism
Interest in the common man and childhood.
Strong senses, emotions and feelings.
Awe of nature.
Celebration of the individual.
Importance of imagination
ARTIST REFRENCES FOR ROMANTICISM:
Roger Fenton, despite him working in a number of genres, Fenton remained consistent in his love of the British landscape and the history it enfolded. Each summer he photographed in locations revered for their ruined abbeys, cathedrals, castles, romantic associations and literary connotations. These are now considered to be among the finest architectural and topographical studies of the 19th century.
the word “Sublime” started in 1757 and is still debated about what the exact meaning of the word means. Sublime evades the idea of easy definition and it revolves around many other things such as: “Judgement, feeling, state of mind and a kind of response to art or nature.” the Sublime is supposed to resemble the extraordinary and that if something that can “Compel and destroy”. Also the concept and the emotions it inspires have been a source of inspiration for artists and writers, particularly in relation to the natural landscape.
First I chose a image of a white gallery on google and then entered that image onto photoshop. I then selected 4 of my best images and edited them to look like they where apart of the room by using the tool “skew” Then to make the gallery look more realistic I used “drop shadow” on photoshop to create the image that there was a shadow under the image.
The virtual gallery
In the images above i put them into a virtual gallery by using the website “Artstep”
New Objectivity was a movement in German art that came out during the 1920s. The term was coined by Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub, who was the director of the Kunsthalle in Mannheim, who used it as the title of an art exhibition staged in 1925 to showcase artists who were working in a post-expressionist spirit. Although principally describing a tendency in German painting, the term took a life in Weimar Germany as well as the art, literature, music, and architecture created to adapt to it. Rather than some goal of philosophical objectivity, it was meant to imply a turn towards practical engagement with the world an all business attitude, understood by Germans as essentially American.
What is the importance of new objectivity ?
The New Objectivity movement in photography, emerging in the aftermath of World War I, holds significant importance for the impact on visual storytelling. Characterized by its unembellished style, it sought to portray the world with a heightened sense of realism, rejecting romanticism and subjective idealism prevalent in earlier photographic approaches. The importance of New Objectivity lies in its commitment to capturing the truth of the world without manipulation. Photographers under this movement sought to present an unvarnished view of society, often focusing on everyday subjects and emphasizing the details of the objective world. Furthermore, New Objectivity brought a sense of social responsibility to photography, using the medium to document the complexities of the human experience. By moving away from idealized portrayals, photographers sought to engage viewers in a more critical dialogue about the realities of their surroundings. This movement paved the way for a more authentic, documentary style of photography that continues to influence contemporary visual storytelling, emphasizing the power of unadorned narratives and the importance of an unfiltered depiction of the world.
To create this image I cut on photo in half and put it on each side of the main image to give the effect that the book is almost floating.
To create this piece I used some old beach images as tghe background and then I stuck 2 contrasting pairs of shoes diagonally to each other.
For this image I tore strips of news paper and stuck them on a white card, then I edited one statues head onto another to create the head as the most vocal part of the image. Lastly I embodied into the statue to give it a more surreal effect.
To create this image I cut two images into strips and merged them together to create only one final piece.
I personally feel that these physical pieces came out quite well, I like the mix of colours included and the simplicity of some of the images. Next time I would ideally like to make the final presentations less messy and more precise as I do feel that the neatness of an final image has a great impact on the final result. I would be intereged to try this method and again and see how I can improve next time.
