ANALOUGE FINAL IMAGE

Development of final piece:

Firstly i started off by editing my image on photoshop, for example edited the saturation and colour to more purple/blue. i continued to print the same two images out of the scissors and tape the difference being different tones of colour but similar. Then used the trimmer to precisely trim out sections of the picture to then use superimposition and stick the sections in line as much as possible on top.

I decided I wanted this in an A3 so went back onto Lightroom and photoshop and made sure it was smooth and sharp ready to be put into the print folder. Now I have framed it and is on display.

EVALUATION

Overall the project ‘home’, was very new to me at the start getting used to photography and how to effectively use a camera. I’ve learnt useful things such as how to use photoshop and organise my photoshoots on Lightroom. However, I need to be more creative with my photography whilst also focusing on the technique and quality of my images. I’ve enjoyed doing research into artists and exploring different styles of photography. This project has been an informative introduction to photography and has helped me understand what photography is and how it can be portrayed as ‘home’.

This is a mind map to show all the possible landscapes and locations I can photograph:

Constable is famous for his landscapes, which are mostly of the Suffolk countryside, where he was born and lived. Constable’s most famous paintings include Wivenhoe Park (1816), Dedham Vale (1821) and The Hay Wain (1821). His paintings are now among the most popular and valuable in British art however, he was never financially successful.

His work transformed the landscape painting genre and shaped the enduring popular image of the English countryside. 

This painting depicts a farm scene on the River Stour between the English counties of Suffolk and Essex.

land ownership – from the image we can see a man working the land however, I believe he is not the land owner he is instead the labourer working for the owner.

land use – The area of land that we can see appears to be used for farming or some form of agriculture. The pond serves as a cooling system for the horses as this picture is set in the summer where temperatures would’ve been high and to enable the horse to work in this heat they walk him through the cool water.

Class – The man in the picture is working class as we believe he’s the labourer for the owner of the land. The land owner however, would most likely be upper class as they could afford a large area of land and to employ workers.

Changing times – The picture, painted in 1821, depicts a time before the industrial revolution. This is a time the romanticists wanted to cherish and protect from the damage that factories and machinery would do to the natural landscape.

Industrial revolution – The picture was painted pre-industrial revolution which is why they’re using a horse and cart to transport things and just using the old fashioned techniques and technologies rather than machinery.

Definition – a movement in the arts and literature, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual.

Romanticism begun in 18th century western Europe and in most areas was at its peak from 1800 to 1850. It was used as a form of expression against the industrial revolution as romanticism emphasized nature over industry.

Artists such as Henry Fuseli and Caspar David Friedrich were part of the revolt against the age of enlightenment because it valued new technology and machinery over nature ands the natural world.

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THE SUBLIME

The idea of the sublime is central to a Romantic’s perception of, and heightened awareness in, the world. The theory of sublime art was put forward by Edmund Burke in 1757 in A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful which provided the English Romantic movement with a systematic analysis of what constitutes the sublime, and the possessed qualities. This gave the English Romantics a legitimacy and a strong theoretical foundation to their expressions. He defined the sublime as ‘an artistic effect productive of the strongest emotion the mind is capable of feeling’

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Edmund Burke

Burke was born in Dublin and educated there at Trinity College. He is best known for his political achievements and being the founder of modern conservatism of the Reflections on the Revolution in France, as he expressed his mistrust in the rationalism of the French Revolutionaries.

When 28 years old Burke wrote his Enquiry, Consistent with the dominant philosophical way of thinking in Britain during his life, Burke was an empiricist (the idea that all learning comes from only experience and observations). He believed that the our ideas, and what we know about the natural world, is aquired from our sensory experiences. For Burke, it is the passions which decide how and what we see, hear and feel.
Burke also sought to apply a scientific method to his chosen subject-matter, so in the Enquiry he does a scientific investigation into our various passions, and uses the evidence to explain the nature and power of the sublime.

Mood-board

A mood-board is an arrangement or collage of images, materials, pieces of text, etc. It is a way of expressing ideas in a visual way. They allow you to combine your ideas, thoughts, information into one visual piece. In photography, the mood-boards are just a collection of images (collage).

Here is a mood-board I have created as inspiration and a sort of plan for my photoshoot:

Photoshoot Action Plan

What

Where

When

Why

photoshoot plan:

Who: I will be the photographer and wont include other people in my images so that my images focus on the landscapes them selves, rather than people.

What: I am going to take image inspired by different romanticist photographers such as Ansel Adams of the landscapes in Jersey.

When: I will take my images when it is fairly clouding and dull to add a dramatic effect on my images i.e., in the late afternoon with dark weather.

Where: I am going to go to different points of the island, as seen below, to try and recreate some of the artists images of different landscapes etc.

Why: I am taking these image to show my take on some artists work to see different landscapes of Jersey and find out what is was like taking images back then.

How: I will use a camera and a tripod to take my images and ensure that they are in focus and steady.

what is important to know is the age of enlighten witch is a period in Europe in the 17-18th century when many writers and thinkers began to question established beliefs, this could be religion where people started to question it and wanted more of an scientific proof of it. Soon after that there was the age of romanticism which was an artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. these 2 ideas were opposing each other, one the Enlightenment thinkers would believe in science and rationality, where as Romantics “favoured depicting emotions such as trepidation, horror, and wild untamed nature.”

Joseph Mallord William Turner RA, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. His work was one of the early beginnings of the romantic era, that focused on the romanticism of nature, which he represents in his work.

the beginning evidence of romanticism:

1762-a swiss philosopher Jean-Jaques Rousseau publishes a book about the raising of children, which praised the wisdom, spontaneity and natural goodness of little children. it contains diatribes against the oppressive world of adults. He publishes this book during very sientific times when people would be drawn to logistics, but against this he emphasises the qualities a child has and glamrises their thinking, creativity ,pureness and outside of adult discipline

1770- A 17 year old poet Thomas Chatterton commits suicide because no one want to publish his poems, he becomes this idea of a sensitive, doomed artist that is rejected by the cruel society.

1774- ab author Geothe publishes a love story which is about the unconditional love one has for a married woman, where he kills himself and is labelled passionate and moved by love. this book becomes the most popular novel of the generation and gets a lot of recognition. this made people change the way they would think , they would side with outpouring of feeling rather then traditional rational thinking. making people believe that following your heart is more important and the outcomes of it are far less important.

There is also the importance of the sublime which is really important to understand and it goes in pair with romanticism. The word sublime that we use today means “of very great excellence or beauty” but in its history, it has a deeper meaning, reaching to something truly extraordinary, an ideal that artists have long pursued. This is pursued by artist to create awe and wonder by their artwork, throughout years there were different periods of time which each had specific generalised want and needs from the artwork being produced, as times change their needs did and so did the artwork. These are the key periods of time of the sublime: The Baroque sublime, The Romantic sublime, The Victorian sublime, The modern sublime, The contemporary sublime. Where this is is important is the link of romanticism and the sublime in a time period called the romantic sublime.

How it all started was when Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry (1757) connected the sublime with experiences of awe, terror and danger. He saw nature as the most sublime object, which created strong sensations, and emotion. This link to landscape photography today, as the landscape usually produced created awe but terror, by being dramatic yet beautiful, these photographs/artworks are so successful when they create a sublime feeling in a person, as then it moves the person and is more likely to create a certain feeling in one then other images that don’t have what a sublime image may create. Those sublime images may be:

His perception influenced a lot of artists, where they would look at nature in a different way, they would get inspired by nature, wanting to create artwork, usually paintings at the time, however this ideal of romantic sublime till this day inspires people. Because now there are much more different ways of creating artwork, like through photography, so many people explore these different areas, without knowing or simply not labelling it as romantic sublime, however this idea has lived on till this day .

There are many artists that have their work related to  The Sublime, some of being :