during this project, I have learned different techniques, programs and camera handling skills which I did not know before. I have not taken photography as a GCSE therefore the summer task has given me an idea of what I should expect from the subject but using a camera was the most important lesson to me as I have learned and will continue learning more advanced settings etc, but knowing how aperture, shutter speed and ISO effect an image has helped me and allowed me to get used to a camera. I like how the objective was still life as well as the project being based on the idea of home and what home is to me. this is because I was able to photograph objects that meant a lot to me and were personal to me, for this reason I think photographing objects was a bit more interesting and fun to do. I’ve noticed that when we were given objects from the beach to photograph, because the objects were not personal to me but also because it was my first photoshoot in the studio, the photoshoot was less fun as I had less control over it because in a little group we shared the same images and the objects were not ones that I could pick. that’s why I liked having more freedom when it came to picking my own objects and me being the person that decides how I would want to photograph them. What I think went well are the group photoshoots we would do, around the school or in the studio, but also using the camera in the studio, prepared to take single object images from above, these I think came out in great quality and detail. I also think what went well is using Lightroom and photoshop, as I adjusted to the program quickly and liked being able to alter the images to my vision. what I think I will need to work on is getting more used to the camera as a couple times while experimenting with the camera I was stuck and didn’t know how the settings could be changed to adjust the camera to the lighting and object being photographed. sometimes I also struggled t keep up to date with the blog posts and had overdue work that I needed to catch up on , this is why I plan to be more organized in the future projects.

Regarding my final images, I tried to include the best images from each photoshoot, as all vary in their own way. I have shown this in my virtual gallery were I tried including a set of images from my final images that went well together and were from the same photoshoot. With most of my images when editing them separately I aimed to show their tones and selecting and editing the images that would be a bit more colourful then others. With my final images I only had one in Black and White so in the future I may experiment with those tones rather than colours, so that I can learn to use both, as editing an image to black and white involves looking at a different set of editing options.

What is romanticism:

Romanticism was an artistic movements that promoted nature and embracing your emotions in the end of the 18th century. It rejects classicalism and focused on nature and emotions. Romanticism in photography focused on landscapes including: coastlines, valleys, beaches, rocks etc. Before romanticism was the industrial revolution. The industrial revolution was a product of enlightenment in the 1700-1800. Many artists and writers rejected it as they were a part of romanticism which disagreed with it.

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

romanticism in art:

romanticism in photography:

The Sublime:

The sublime was a theory put forward by the philosopher Edmund Burke in 1757, embracing our emotions and the natural world. He claims our emotions overwhelm us as we experience ‘the wonder of creation’ or an extraordinary experience. The sublime is said to be power that compels and destroys us, as well as restores out perspective of the world and its beauty. The sublime in photography made photographers focus of things such as: dramatic weather, seas, rocks, coastlines etc.

Sublime in photography:

Sublime in art:

What are influential images? They are images that capture a deeper significance. They hold great power, emotion and energy, and cause the viewer to feel the emotions the photograph is projecting and wanting us to experience.

Photoshoot Plan:

Equipment – tripod, DSLR camera

Where – I’m going to go to places such as L’Étacq, with rocky areas and dramatic scenes. I don’t want to just photograph straight on simple photos, but use angles such as ants view or low angles to emphasise the drama in the landscape. However if there is a dramatic sky i will include that, whilst experimenting with different depth of fields.

When -I’ll try to capture dramatic weather, possibly sunset when foggy cloud is around as there is a haze across the sky.

How – I’ll use a variety of settings, mainly using Av or shutter priority to make sure the lighting is right. I might also experiment with landscape modes to try and accomplish a variety of images.

why – To create romantacised photos with an element of the sublime as that can tie in well with the large landscapes across the island.

Romanticism was introduced during the 18th century, as a way of almost appreciating life and the natural emotions of the human, like love which was the main aspect of romanticism. To be romantic was to be almost gentle, loving, and in some ways insane and to appreciate the beauty in even the small things. Many romantics where very against the view of science and logic.

One artist during this period was very much for the topic romanticism, especially in his art. In fine detail and accuracy, he presented landscapes which could be viewed as beautiful, or immersive with what is happening in the painting, This links closely to the idea of the sublime, which in other words is a way of humbling or horrifying people. For example in the strong aggressive storms which rip down trees and create chaos, or the beautiful sight and peace of the top of a mountain which creates an extreme emotion. This closely relates to romanticism and the people/community behind it.

You could also say romantics where heavily invested in the nature of everything, the insanity and simplicity of emotion, the rhythm of nature working, like the trees swaying together in the wind, and how emotions are rarely every consistent, rather forever changing throughout situations. They hated the idea of rationalising how or why the emotions occur, rather to accept and appreciate. This is why they hated the idea of the train built by the British in this era, as it linked closely to the industrial revolution, which was completely against romanticism.

One famous story includes a poet who was very invested in the feeling of love, and his experiences in the pain, insanity, and beauty that he felt. But as no one at this time didn’t want to publish his book, (which to him was a way of expressing himself and being open to the feelings we feel) he killed himself. This was a very famous story as it was the first introduction into genre of romanticism.

This links into the subject of landscape, as during the introduction of romanticism it was very common for artists to paint huge landscapes.

Romanticism is a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century and ended in the late 19th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual.

The Industrial Revolution also influenced Romanticism, which was about escaping from modern realities. Romanticism was a revolt against the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and also a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature.

John Constable was an English artist born on June 11, 1776. Constable contributed to the Romantic movement and died on March 31, 1837.

Constable was one of the first artists of the Romantic movement to create landscape paintings drawn directly from nature rather than the idealised and dramatic depictions favored by other artists of the period and in taking this stance he pioneered Naturalism in Britain.

5 most focused elements in romanticism

Interest in the common man and childhood.

Strong senses, emotions, and feelings.

Awe of nature.

Celebration of the individual

Importance of imagination.

THE SUBLIME

What is it?

The sublime of art was originally defined as an artistic effect productive of the strongest emotion the mind is capable of feeling. meaning how there is a ‘greatness beyond all possibility of calculation.’

in romanticism, the sublime is a meeting of emotions and the natural world. we allow our emotions to overwhelm and take over our rationality by looking at art.

Edmund Burke

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. He defined the sublime as an artistic effect productive of the strongest emotion the mind is capable of feeling. He wrote ‘whatever is in any sort terrible or is conversant about terrible objects or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime’.

sublime photography

What is romanticism in photography?

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. Therefore, this started a new way of thinking and created a new type of art.

History of Romanticism

Romanticism started in Western Europe, around the middle of the 18th century. At this time, the dominant artistic and cultural movement is Neoclassicism, which finds its inspiration in the aesthetics of ancient civilizations. Neoclassicism values order, self-control, and the promotion of ideal values.

Romanticism, first defined as an aesthetic in literary criticism around 1800, gained momentum as an artistic movement in France and Britain in the early decades of the nineteenth century and flourished until mid-century. With its emphasis on the imagination and emotion, Romanticism emerged as a response to the disillusionment with the Enlightenment values of reason and order in the aftermath of the French Revolution of 1789.

The five elements of romanticism

1. Interest in the common man and childhood.
2. Strong senses, emotions, and feelings.
3. Awe of nature.
4. Celebration of the individual.
5. Importance of imagination.

Artist references for Romanticism

Roger Fenton was a British photographer, noted as one of the first war photographers. Fenton was born into a Lancashire merchant family. Roger Fenton is a towering figure in the history of photography, the most celebrated and influential photographer in England during the medium’s “golden age” of the 1850s. Before taking up the camera, he studied law in London and painting in Paris. 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. 

JMW Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner RA, known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. He dominated British landscape painting in a thoroughly Romantic style which was driven by the immediacy of personal experience, emotion, and the boundless power of imagination.

What is Sublime in photography?

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. The Sublime is related to threat and agony, to spaces where calamities happen or things run beyond human control.

The sublime has long been understood to mean a quality of greatness or grandeur that inspires awe and wonder. From the seventeenth century onwards the concept and the emotions it inspires have been a source of inspiration for artists and writers, particularly in relation to the natural landscape.

Romantic artists would often use their experiences of nature or natural events to convey the experience of the sublime. Kant’s countryman, Caspar David Friedrich’s paintings of mist, fog, and darkness sought to capture an experience of the infinite, creating an overwhelming sense of emptiness.

The Romantic sublime

Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry (1757) connected the sublime with experiences of awe, terror and danger. Burke saw nature as the most sublime object, capable of generating the strongest sensations in its beholders. This Romantic conception of the sublime proved influential for several generations of artists.

Romanticism occurred in the mid 18th century and was used to go against the new industrial revolution as a way to focus on the beauty in nature and idealistic world.

Paintings were created to capture the romanticized world in the 18th century. Using warm and romantic colours, artists used this new technique to create a better world, separate to the new man-made industry taking over the world.

William Wordsworth, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were known as ‘founders’ of romanticism. They were caught up by the idea that he world could be seen as a place of peace, beauty and wisdom. It could be used as a way to escape the fast pace of the word and its evolution. The idea that there was no need to be in a rush, and you could take in the atmosphere and narratives around you, caused people to enjoy their surroundings.

The Romantic Sublime

Edmund Burke

He published ‘A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful’ in 1757

Sublime is an experience that’s good but that can possibly make us feel insignificant. E.g. the thought of being stuck in a storm, makes the simple human life seem simple and mindless.

Burke saw nature as the most sublime object, capable of generating the strongest sensations in its beholders.

The sublime and religion

The sublime can be connected with many things, and religion is one. Many beliefs follow a God, and the idea that humans are small and insignificant compared to a God-like being connects with Burke’s idea of the sublime.

John Constable

The Haywain 1821

Constable was known for his rural landscape paintings of Suffolk, in the 1820s. The Haywain creates an idealistic idea of England at the time, showing farm workers cooling down their horse on a warm day. This creates an idea for the viewer that England in the 1800s was pastoral and natural, however it hides the new movement of factory building and other man-made things starting to be introduced at the time.

Romanticism is a movement which was created in mid 18th century, it was used as a way to glorify nature and to protest the industrial revolution. The art of romanticism sparks feelings of beauty and wisdom into the audience. Romanticism inspired, literature, art and philosophy of the time.

There were many poets that focused on Romanticism and the sublime. This is a poem by a very famous poet who lives in the Lake District called William Wordsworth:

Here are art some examples:

5 Element of Romanticism

-Interest in the common man and childhood.

-Strong senses, emotions and feelings.

-Awe of nature.

-Celebration of the induvidual.

-Importance of imagination.

The Romantic Sublime

In 1757, Edmund Burke wrote a book called A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. His idea was that the sublime experience is nice for a very strange reason and it makes us feel insignificant for example storms, mountains and the ocean. Sublime restores perspective when we get caught up in an immediate situation. It has links with religion, for example in Christianity God loved the world so much he sacrificed his son Jesus.

Here are some examples of sublime paintings:

Romanticism is the attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature, painting, music, architecture, and photography in Europe. over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. romanticism goes against the industrial revaluation, to escape modern reality and to go against the political norms and policies.

Caspar David Fredrich is a painter and draughtsman, Friedrich is best known for his later allegorical landscapes, which feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees, and Gothic ruins. he painted the painting above this text.

what is sublime. Sublime has long been understood to mean a quality of greatness or grandeur that inspires awe and wonder. From the seventeenth century onwards the concept and the emotions it inspires have been a source of inspiration for artists and writers, particularly in relation to the natural landscape. but what does it mean to photographers maybe its making something look great like god and to make the person looking at the photo feel small.

this photo shows a ship in a storm and how the storm makes the ship look small compared to the storm, it shows how nature can makes us feel small and helpless that whats what sublime art is suppose to be.

What is romanticism in photography?

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. Therefore, this started a new way of thinking and created a new type of art.

History of romanticism:

Romanticism, first defined as an aesthetic in literary criticism around 1800, gained momentum as an artistic movement in France and Britain in the early decades of the nineteenth century and flourished until mid-century. With its emphasis on the imagination and emotion, Romanticism emerged as a response to the disillusionment with the Enlightenment values of reason and order in the aftermath of the French Revolution of 1789.

 In French and British painting of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the recurrence of images of shipwrecks and other representations of man’s struggle against the awesome power of nature manifest this sensibility. For example:

Artist references 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. Examples of his photography:

JMW Turner, throughout the first half of the 19th century, Turner was unstoppable. He dominated British landscape painting in a thoroughly Romantic style which was driven by the immediacy of personal experience, emotion, and the boundless power of imagination. Examples of is art:

The five 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.

The sublime:

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. The Sublime is related to threat and agony, to spaces where calamities happen or things run beyond human control.