What Is Meant By An Urban Landscape?
An urban landscape means a dense accumulation of building structures with a rich stylistic variety of shapes, sizes and proportions located over a fairly extensive territory. Urban photography is a genre of photography concerned with capturing scenes from urban spaces, such as towns and other ecological spaces. It has become more popular over the years as the world has become more urbanised. Urban landscapes refer to the physical environment of cities or urban areas. It includes buildings (residential or commercial), infrastructure (roads, bridges), public spaces (parks), transportation systems (subways), and other elements that shape urban living. In simpler words, man made things that overtook the area.
In Order To Take A Good Urban Landscape Image You Should Consider:
- Using a wide-angle lens
- Photographing with a narrow aperture
- Taking advantage of golden-hour light
- Shooting street photos in context
- Photographs from above
- Having fun with long exposures
- Shooting urban landscapes at night
- Featuring interesting architecture
My Photoshoots:
Final Three Images:
I have used lighting within this image to create a mirror concept, you can see that the sun is setting in front of the car due to it being reflected within the car. By using this lighting it creates a new concept, not just like a normal shadow but instead an entirely new concept. It creates a light and dark tone, and a 3D element which creates a texture element. Its a form of space, you can see that the car is 3D due to what is reflected within. The context of this image in relation to an urban landscape in my eyes is that it is a physical environment, a public space. The idea of using a public car park came across to me when I was researching anthropocene, noticing just how many cars are on the island and how much they are actually polluting our earth. I wanted to create the concept of our beautiful planet and mother nature (the sunset), contrasted with what’s harming it (the car).
I wanted to take an image where the sun was high, not setting nor rising but just shining high, as if it was just the middle of the day. I have decided to use a model within this image so that I can portray the urban area of the skatepark to its fullest. I have used a skatepark too show how not all man made things are bad and harming the environment, this skate park is filled with humans burning calories and using up all their energy, providing more to the planet rather than damaging it all over again.
This isn’t one of my favorite photos, I do not like how blurry it is or how rough the lighting of the petrol station is being portrayed, but I love the idea of it. The idea of just casually using petrol and harming the planet when there are so many other options out there, like electric cars that’ll help the planet rather than damage it, but some people just cannot change in there stubborn ways.