For this small photoshoot, I took many photos around town, focusing on the movement of people, giving my images another dimension, time. This links with my Anthropocene work as it shows the built up landscape, with nothing natural left. I think the movement of time in the photo could represent how fast the world is changing.

How I took the photoshoot:

I would hold the camera with my hands to add a blur to the image, then I would set the camera to a high exposure setting, allowing a ghosting effect for people walking by, giving a feeling of time. I took multiple images, each slightly changing the angle as I plan to overlay them in photoshop after.

First Attempt:

I did this photo exclusively in photoshop, I used a few of the image I took and used multi-exposure, by overlapping images, to show one person more that once in the image, giving a the effect that time is moving in the image. I increased the exposure as well.

Second Attempt:

For this one I used more photos to blend, I think this may be worse than my first attempt because there is too much going on in the photo. Jung also said that using more than 4 exposures can be hard to control the output of the image.

3rd attempt:

Here I only used one photo but had the shutter open for around 1 second. Then I moved my camera around to create the motion blur.

Other Attempts:

I walked around the jersey dump/ power station to find dramatic images that show how much produce humans use and waste. The whole area we walked around was added land built by people, which many people believe has effected the environment around it. For example, lots of sea weed now gets washed up on the beaches next to it. We found many interesting subjects, like a large pile of colourful glass, large mounds on cobble, concrete and other materials, lots of working requirement and more. I edited my photos with high saturation like an Edward Burtynsky photo, with the composition having many things inside so if I scale up my images like he does, there will be many focal points to look at.

Photo1:

Here you can see leading lines towards a broken down fire truck. This image has almost no new objects and people which adds to a wasteland feel.

Photo2:

Here you can see the view of the jersey power station, with large piles or rubbish and dirt in the foreground. The smoke (from diesel turbines) just started, likely because it was around peak energy usage in jersey. The destruction of the ground added with the smoke almost makes the image seem apocalyptic, notifying the viewer of a serious global warming problem.

Photo3:

Here, the whole image is covered in glass bottles, overwhelming the viewer with the worlds waste problems. I have increased the contrast to make each bottle easier to distinguish from one another.

Other Photos:

Creative Editing:

Here I only allowed red to be saturated, causing the rest of the image to be black and white.

Here I let gave colour to main subjects in the image, leaving the rest white and black. This helped the images noise as before there was too much going on in one photo, so by doing this the image has main parts the eyes can look at.

For my final pieces in the Anthropocene / Landscape project project I used these images:

Overall I think that these final pieces came out pretty well. My idea for these pieces were for the images which looked similar to be placed next to each other or with each other to create a theme.