Flagging my images from the shoot, to take away any blurry or images I do not like. Doing this helps to choose out your best images to edit and use as final images.

Final Images

First i flagged the images that i wanted to keep

Then I created another virtual image of the ones I liked and turned it black and white.

My final images

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I feel that the images above relate to Robert Adams as it shows the development of society corrupting the natural environment. This is an element that robert Adams loved to focus his images on.

The image above is taken by Robert Adams.

Born in New Jersey Orange (not the fruit or colour), Robert Adams was a well know photographer, creating images mainly in black and white. He captured the traces of human life on the planet, showing people places as a whole, where people could interpret the image as prideful, or horrible.

What I mean by this is that Robert is capturing things for what they are, no real context or meaning behind it. This image shows a pretty big city, with crowded housing on what seems to be purely flat land, which shows humans creations. Although these images are up to interpretation, Robert did have an aim. He wanted “stability and movement in one form”, which in this image could be him showing his hope for change, to show people what has happened to nature, and where it is possibly leading to.

This image does aim to express his sadness for what is happening and empathy towards the land. How there are empty parking lots in this area, and buildings are just scattered around the area, with no care for how much space its using, and how people don’t care about the areas that might be abandoned, which are left to rot away. Until maybe one day that extra space people think little of, will become a rarity on this earth.

In the introduction to his book The New West, Adams talks about the tradition of landscape photography linked to images of the American West with the notion around the concept of the sublime. At the time when Adams’ published the seminal photobook in 1974 people asked him why he turned his camera toward tract homes and billboards. He replied, ‘the question sounds simple, but it implies a difficult issue – why open our eyes anywhere but in undamaged places like national parks.’

1975 was the turning point in the history of photography  the 1975 exhibition New Topographic signalled a radical shift away from traditional depictions of landscape. and turned towards the urbanisation of the new world photos of gas station or caravan parks normal urban things and they where mundane but oddly they looked fascinating because the photos looked like art work. The main point of the new topographic encourage taking photos of mans alterations on the world and not taking photos of the wilderness.

new topographic mind map

new topographic photographers such as Robert Adams, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Lewis Baltz, joe deal, frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John schott, stephen Shore, and Henry Wessel Jr

Robert Adams was born in January 21, 1928 and died on March 2, 1997 he was American and has published 40 books and he’s also won two Guggenheim Fellowships, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and the Hasselblad Award.

Joe Deal was born in August 12, 1947 and died on June 18, 2010 he was a American and he has published I believe 3 books and he’s also won a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1983 and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in 1977 and in 1980.

WHAT IS EXPOSURE BRACKETING?

Exposure bracketing is when a photographer creates pictures with different exposure settings. The purpose of this is to cover more of the dynamic range. Bracketed photos are used later to create an HDR (high dynamic range) photo.

PERSONAL RESPONSE TO EXPOSURE BRACKETING:

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WHAT IS A HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE (HDR) PHOTO?

Dynamic range is simply the range of the lightest tones to the darkest tones within a photo.

The ideology of the New Topographics movement was largely a social one. Post-War America struggled in many ways, some being in its capability to urbanise quickly enough to house and transport the ever growing population, limit the rapidly worsening inflation issue and develop more modern attitudes towards the vast emergence of mental illness.

This scramble for suburbia characterised the post-war years, with legislation such as the GI Bill of Rights passed in 1944 which provided monetary means for returning veterans to attend college and purchase homes, allowing them to settle and start families.

The realisation that the American Dream had not been fulfilled was one felt prevalently in this era, with the large expansions within the Civil Rights movement leading to profound progress in legislation such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Within the next 20 years, the Cold War spread fear of Communist ideologies reaching the West as well as the very apparent threat of nuclear war.

With these issues being felt nationally, photographers were inclined to revert away from the idealised landscape photography that had been the primary style for many decades (for example the work of Ansel Adams). They felt that this did not at all accurately portray life in Post-War America and therefore wanted to demonstrate the effects of consumerism and urbanisation on society, this largely through the use of bleak scenes in muted tones to emulate the sad and nostalgic effects.

This coagulated in the form of an exhibition held in 1975 in New York in attempts to bring the nation into the photographers’ minds.

URBAN AND INDUSTRIAL

WHERE?

• BUILDING SITES
• CAR PARKS (PIER ROAD, SAND STREET)
• HARBOUR
• LA COLETTE
• OFFICE BUILDING

WHEN?

For carparks, office buildings and I want to aim to photograph them at dusk/ night to emphasise the lighting to give a more industrial look. In the evening I will aim to photograph harbours; building sites and specifically La Collette in the day for the best detail and lighting.

For this photoshoot I went along the cliff paths at Bouley Bay. I have edited each image, which is shown on the right next to the original image I took (on the left).

FIRST IMAGE:

ANAYLSIS OF IMAGE:

I prefer this image in black and white as it highlights the whites on the rocks, I also like how the water contrasts with the skyline in the image on the right.

SECOND IMAGE:

THIRD IMAGE:

My first photoshoot for landscapes was at Plemont, the original pictures are on the right and then the edited black and white are on the left:

FIRST IMAGE

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ANALYSIS ON IMAGE:

This is one of my favourites I took as it shows a clear view of the cliff, the rocks, sea and some plants. I also like the angle it’s taken at and how the light shines down onto the ocean which you can clearly see the in the black and white edit.

SECOND IMAGE:

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ANALYSIS ON IMAGE:

This shows more detail and texture in the rocks and the sea, I like the texture it presents, showing depth. Although, I do prefer the image coloured to show more detail and it makes the picture more interesting.

THIRD IMAGE:

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ANALYSIS ON IMAGE:

Shows a better view of the waves and looks more interesting in black and white as I adjusted exposure and highlighted the whites:

FOURTH IMAGE:

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ANALYSIS ON IMAGE:

When editing this image in black and white i also liked how this edit looked:

My reasoning being that I darkened the shadows, so they are almost black, I like this as its more similar to Ansel’s pictures. The other black and white image being:

There are more details in the shadows compared to other image.

EVAULATION

Overall, I enjoyed doing this photoshoot as I could focus and explore on different areas of the cliff paths. In my plan I wasn’t aiming to go to Plemont originally but found it suited the ‘rural landscapes’ topic. Each image shows a different perspective and allows me to practice editing different aspects of each image whether it being the shadows, highlights, exposure or tone. My favourite image is the fourth as I like the angle and how much I could experiment with editing it, I’d say it’s the most similar to Ansel’s pictures as it shows depth, and the cliffs resemble as mountains to create different levels and height in my image; the shadows are sharp and effective with black and white.