Picture stories are meant to show a story through pictures and not actually the words therefore the writing shouldn’t really be a source to rely on, the naked eye should be attracted to the picture, figure out which photo is the main source of information.

here are some samplers of picture stories, these examples looks very differed from one another as they all have different stories behind them, they all represent a different meaning. Each one has a different colour that can symbolise different things such as emotions, a countries flag colours and what colour makes there chosen photos to stand out. I really like the black and white photos with a brown and yellow background, it has a strong powerful meaning and really helps to engage the viewers eyes onto those photos. I don’t really like the stories that have many different colours and shapes in the background as it distracts the viewers attention away from the photos, it make the photo look less important. However some could view it as the colours attract the naked eye towards the photos, makes them look noticeable especially if they are in black and white as there isn’t any other colours to direct the eye towards.

Here I used AI to try and add some more details to my photos, I highlighted the spot I wanted to add more and typed in what I thought would look the best, for example I had a blank space to work with therefore I just added some different posters and a plant to fill the space.

Here, I used AI to add more details to my photo, this allowed me to add people, different objects and change the perspective of the photo. For example, the original photo is an alley way that has graffiti and no people, when I used AI I was able to add children to make it look like they were drawing the graffiti, I also added cans of spray paint on the side to make it look more believable and also adds more colour and details to my photograph. In the back of the photograph I added a person in the back to make the picture more full.

Here I did the same thing as the photo above, i added people and also changed some of the people in the background to make the photo look different, I tried to change some small details such as the bag on the lady sat on the bench. I also added a dog which I don’t really like but kept in to show the differences in the original photo and the edited photo.

Here, I added a different effect to the colour, I selected the area I wanted to change and pressed (CTRL U) this allowed me to add a brighter colour or a more faint colour. I wanted to make my photo to stand out therefore made the colours bright and bold, I kept selecting different areas in the photo to see what looked right and what looked wrong. I really like how this photo turned out as the photo looks really vivid.

For this experiment I tried to make one person stand out as you can see the green person is more bold than the other people. Here I had to duplicate the photo and then move one of the photos either to right or left.

These photos were taken in st Malo, and the aim of this photoshoot was to get a perspective of what French people look like on a busy day, what they get up too, it also shows us how differently they are dressed. Most of the time you wouldn’t see anyone in Jersey or England wearing this type of style as it is quite European. However, it also gives us an insight of what st Malo looks like in general and how different it can look to where we live and what we see on a regular day. There were flags all around the towns which is something we could see in jersey, but they are places differently and represent different things, but in jersey we do have some string lights around the avenue which lights around the places. 

The aim of these photos are very different as some of them have many people scattered around the photo and some tend to have less or no people, I really like have some of these photos turned out, for some of the photos I used different angles to see if I could get a difference in perspective an how different the photo would look to the rest, we have a hip angle which would make the photo look lower, I also tried to put my camera further u to try and get a birds eye view perspective which didn’t turn out too well as I couldn’t really see what I was taking but it was fun to try and experiment with and see what different views people tend to see on a daily whether they were higher up looking out a window and just walking through the town. 

These photos were taken in France, st Malo. The aim of this photoshoot was to take candid photos of strangers roaming the streets, it was to captivate what st Malo rally looked like without making it look staged. These pictures are very different to what we would see in our everyday life in Jersey, as we don’t have access to everything. Here we were changing the shutter speed lower and higher when cars and people were walking and some photos turned out better than others, for this photoshoot we tried to get a close up of people to see what they were doing, some of these photos were taken of only buildings with no people in the surroundings. Both those photos give a very different effect and create a sense of humanity, how the world is seen. I turned some of my photos into black and white to show that I have included some of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s ideas and his decisive moment. Henri has a theory of the decisive moment which meant that every picture he took had to be perfectly positioned and timed. Henri would always search for the perfect people to take a picture of, as they would most likely be walking or moving slightly making it challenging, therefore Henri would have to change the shutter speed to capture the perfect photograph. All of these photos are candid and not staged which helps to get a perspective of the real world around us, although these photos don’t define the whole world as there is war around us but there are still peaceful places which need to be kept and preserved. 

 “The legacy of exploration is not measured in material possessions but in the impact we leave on the world,”

Henri Cartier was a famous humanist photographer who was known for taking candid photographs. His type is photography is street photography and he has a theory known as ‘decisive moment’, when its the right time to take the photo. Henri liked to describe this as hunting without killing the thrill of waiting for the next person to walk by to capture into the photograph. Henri’s photography tends to link humanity together while other photographers tend to look for the horror in the world to capture. Its also described as an extension of the eye, Henri tends to look deeper into the photo and almost expresses a story in the photograph. He’s creating these images that create meaning without any words. another thing he added to his photography was the black and white effect as Henri believed that colour was a threat and was inferior and aesthetically limiting. This helped to add a dramatic effect to the photo. The decisive moment is meant of capture the true beauty of the moment, whole meaning of candid was to take a picture without posing, the opposite of a formal photograph where the person sits still and posses for their photo, the photo taken by Henri Cartier-Bresson were mainly picture of people walking by, these people had n idea that they would be getting photographed, that’s the beauty of it, people cant pose or try to look their best as the photo is taken in the moment, that’s why Henri Cartier-Bresson had to be very decisive of when to capture the specific photo as no one was prepared for it.

these photos above are all examples of the ‘decisive moment’, they are all pictures of people walking or standing around which shows that these people had no clue they were being photographed and these images are the best as no one can pull a face and do any signs as we would do now, these are all natural photos, The reason this is called the decisive moment is because Henri Cartier-Bresson always had to be in the right place to be able to take these photos, he had to be discrete so that no one would notice that he was taking images of people, most people when they see they are being photographed they would smile or do a pose where as these images above show that they aren’t aware of the photo, one reason is that none of them are actually looking towards the camera. The whole idea of the decisive moment is to capture a precise moment hat creates a story without knowing anything about the photograph, its the way everything is paced around and layered. All these photos were taken without the person knowing making the photo more sentimental and meaningful, there aren’t any people posing and changing the whole point and perspective of the photo. All these photos were transformed into black and white images which helps to capture the events on the street, allowing him to shape the way that major events and everyday life were captured and photographed. Henry stated that the aim of the decisive moment is to capture something that may never happen again is frozen in the frame.

Here I’m planning to go round places where its not very busy and everything is very subtle, however my photoshoot will look very different as it wouldn’t be snowing when I take these photos, it will most likely be sunny or raining, I would like to find a single house planted in the middle of no where as it adds such mystery to the house and why it may be there. I also chose a photograph that seems to have an effect to it which makes it look very unusual, I could round to a neighbourhood and take pictures of the houses scattered around and simply add an effect to it after, however if I wanted to make it look different I could go when the sun is setting or rising to make the effect look different and have different levelling of the colours.

Mariska Lavigne has a photoshoot called lost lands where she takes photos of different buildings that may give off a lost sensation. There are many buildings that are in the middle of nothing, and unusual leaves that just look out of this world, Lavigne created images of anything that looked “different” and didn’t fit to the normal standard of todays world which shows us that everyone, everything is different.

She had been Travelling through Iceland for four months, a country she was unfamiliar with: The light was bright, colours were vivid, and by the end of my trip the sun kept on shining all night long. Snow still held the country in its veil, creating a big white void. she states that this has a way of cleaning up the landscape, the scenery gets more graphic. she always wondering how this scene would look like in wintertime to see how different the sky and the environment would look, she had decided to go back for another month in January. The country turns blue at dusk in wintertime. All colours fade. Cities look like scale models seeking shelter from the weather in the shadow of the mountains. It was her intention to express the dazzling moment, she wanted to get different point of views of the different season around them and how differently the world may look if the sun is out or if the sky if full of gloomy clouds.

Liu Bolin is a contemporary artist born in China’s Shandong province, who specialises in self-portraits where he is disguised to match his surroundings. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Shandong College of Arts in 1995 and his Master of Fine Arts from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2001. “In 1972, Liu was allowed to attend college in Beijing, where she studied until 1975. Following graduation, she attended graduate school at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Socialist Realism supplied the guiding principles at both schools, and there was very little room for deviation.”

Art hacker:

Liu Bolin, shows in his photography work that he holds no emotions in the photos to represent a neutral emotion, it makes it harder to identify a person in the photo. This is the artists way of doing a silent protest against the Chinese government’s policies. 

I really like this artists as it helps me to get different opinions and perspectives of the world and how people let the world shape meaning in their lives, for example I feel that this artists can might show an opinion on the world quite positively and helps us understand why everyone is different and why our opinions should be heard and why we should be seen as a person however i do believe that this could make people feel the opposite as the artist is blended into the buildings and surrounding’s meaning that they are trying to blend in with everything/ everyone else, they aren’t standing out or being their selves they would rather be seen as everyone else as they are too afraid to be seen as ‘different’ and would rather stay ‘normalized’ like everyone. The artist has put a lot of thought to show that everyone has an opinion in whatever way they show it. He wants to show people the power of the photograph itself and how the photo holds the domination of a government’s political power.

What would make the photograph look really cool is if they painted on the model in black and white so that the model stands out but we can still clearly see the details used in the photo. Although I feel that it would be a lot harder to create the same effect as not all details and shades would match up perfectly, but it would make the model stand out a lot more and create that meaning of being your own person and having your own thoughts.

If I were to recreate this I would use a projector to project an image onto a person, this would help create the image that technology has shaped this society and people these days cant live without technology. This would be an easier way for me to take photos with as I don’t have the skill to paint a background on a person. Although my photos wont have the same effect as lio Bolin’s work but it would have a similar effect.

Here is one of my final images that I am presenting, I really like how this photo turned out with all the editing as its a really bright and colourful photo as well as its a broken down greenhouse which is a topic of Anthropocene, it slightly represents what happened after the storm and how it has effected the world in general, the storm was a natural disaster created by the world, it was also created by us humans as we keep polluting the world and we aren’t now living with the consequences.

Here I put some of best photos from my Anthropocene photoshoots and made them big, so that stand out. I really like the green house photo as it helps to picture how green houses are left, unused and abandoned. The picture of the green house I took, looks like its been taken care off almost as if there are still people using it. I got a picture of two different green houses, one was the inside of one while the other was the outside and it was visible to see that.

I really like these photos put together as the are quite similar, however you can clearly tell they are different, I really like how I put the photos into black and white. I presented my best photos on a virtual gallery, I really like the texture of these photo as they look more rough and sharpened. This makes the photo have an older look and effect.

This photoshoot was successful and helped me view the world in different ways and why we should save out planet, to be able to get the images to be clear I edited the photos in photoshop, I was able to level the photos with the lighting and crop them to make sure nothing in the background of the photo will distract the eyes of the viewer. Most of the photos had quite a bright lighting so it wasn’t needed to add anymore lighting however I did also put (ctrl m) to adjust the curves in the photo.

This photoshoot was quite successful as I managed to get photos of different areas of jersey and see what bits have been affected by the storm or just globalisation in general. I’ve turned the stones picture in black and white to show how old these stones are and what they can represent, the black and white effect creates an older effect to the photo as the rocks are quite old and don’t necessarily look old and ancient therefore the black and whit effect helps to see the value in the rocks. The lighting on the rocks are really bright so I had to edit them in photoshop to make the lighting darker. This helped to see the photo better and make the whole picture look more clear to the eye. I also feel that the black and white makes the photo look better, it looks more modern but also takes away the distraction if the colours.

I really like how these photos are different from my other photos as there aren’t any people see in this photoshoot as the photos are hidden away for people and not many people will come to this place unless they live close by or they work around there. As this place hasn’t got many people walking by there isn’t much litter scattered around the area. This helps to make the photos look cleaned up and completely changes the perspective of the photo.

Here I went to a jersey exhibition to have a look at some of the creations made, there were very unusual masterpieces that have deep meaning to them that not everyone would understand. For example the picture of the rocks with moss on them seem very weird and unpleasant to present, however it could have a meaning to it that shows why the earth is important to preserve, and destroying the planet is only harming us as humans. This exhibition was meant to represent the world and how different people can view it. There have been many different exhibitions in jersey that represent different things for example there was one that was in a dark room with lights reflecting onto a piece of metal with different patterns, for example there were patterns with different tribe figures to show ancient history, it was really interesting to look at as it helps to picture the worlds history in a less boring way than reading a book. This exhibition was really aimed at showing the world and earth and how it can be portrayed differently. In most of the pictures shown above show an element of grass of some type weather its real or imbedded onto a fabric it all has one representation of something.

Here I cropped one of the photos that i had taken in the exhibition so that none of the background would effect the details in the photograph. This photograph could look really confusing to the eye however it could represent many different things, for example this could be a photograph taken in the olden days where people used to fish for food with their hands, in the photo its looks as if the man is reaching down for something in the sea, this could also show many other things, maybe he had dropped something into the sea and now is looking for it with his hand but the most logical answer for me is that he wants to grab some food possibly to feed his family as that was one main meal people used to eat before, fish was very common and still is now however we do catch fishes very differently now, for example people ted to go the the shops to buy fishes that are ready to be cooked or we have fisher men who catch fish with a fishing rod which seems to be a lot easier you use that trying t grab it with your hands. Another thing that shows that this picture may be quite old , is the outfit that the man is wearing in the photograph, this isn’t an outfit that you would tend to still see as it looks very old fashioned, certain people may wear this outfit depending on their jobs. I have seen a few people wearing this outfit that were working in a restaurant as waiters. but that has a completely different meaning as to why they wear those outfits.

This photo is really creative as it shows a picture of the sea on a small tv that is sat on some dirt which is mean to represent the sand, this is really creative as it would be hard to do a representation of a beach and this provides a clear image of the beach, one thing that would have made it look better would have been if the dirt was just places in one pile as the beach isn’t necessarily seen as perfect, sometimes the sand isn’t soft and “perfect”, and this image doesn’t portray the reality of the beach. This can give off a different view of the worlds, almost s if the wold is seen as perfect when in reality the world is a mess, there ae many problems such as global warming.

“The ‘good Anthropocene’ argument is founded on a belief in the ultimate benevolence of the whole, the order of things, a goodness that in the end transcends and defeats the structural obstacles, sufferings and moral lapses that seem to threaten it. That this belief is rarely voiced only bespeaks its secret power.”