This is my storm Ciaran virtual gallery from the landscape photoshoots, I picked these images because they all have things in common as they look at the damage that was done to the landscape and the damage that was done to the trees. These photos were taken at Val De La Mare reservoir where there was a lot of damage to the surroundings.

Virtual Gallery New Topographics

This is my New Topographics virtual gallery. I chose these images because they represent The New Topographics style the best. And with the image in the middle, the buildings range from very old to extremely modern, which suggests that the surroundings have been built up over time.

Virtual Gallery Anthropocene

This is my Anthropocene virtual gallery. I chose these images because they capture light pollution the best and showcase what light pollution represents. The balance between the natural light and the artificial light contrasts really well making the concept of the image balanced.

Virtual Gallery Mandy Barker

This is my Mandy Barker Virtual Gallery. I chose these images because they represent her work the best and relate to the theme of Anthropocene because they relate to plastic pollution and just how much plastic there is in the oceans.

Ansel Adams

Biography = Ansel Adams was a photographer and an environmentalist. He was born in San Francisco California. Ansel Adams had a joy and love for nature which made him different and some what solitary.

What was Ansel Adams known for ?

Ansel Adams was most known for his black and white landscape images of the American West. He designated his work to the countries remaining fragments of untouched wilderness.

What influenced Ansel Adams Photography ?

Adams was inspired by precursors in government survey and expedition photography, such as Carleton Watkins (1829-1916), Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904), Timothy O’Sullivan (1840-1882) and Frank Jay Haynes (1853-1921), who worked with large, bulky cameras and glass-plate negatives.

Ansel Adams photography

Ansel Adams photography represented the sublime because he photographed these overwhelming landscapes that capture the raw nature of the environment. He often took very dramatic images and changed the colour of the filter on his photos to get that dark black colour in order to make the focal point of his image stand out.

Image Analysis

The colour in this image is in black and white and uses the Zone system which uses different shades of white, black and grey with 0 being the darkest and 10 being the whitest. The leading lines of the river lead your eye to the focal point being the mountain. The texture of this photo is very grainy and has a bumpy texture to it. The composition of this image is arranged perfectly because the leading lines and the focal point of the mountain are right in the middle and it fits the rule of thirds.

The Zone System

The Zone System was the colours that were in Ansel Adams photographs and each colour had an aperture in difference. The colours ranged from 0-10 with 0 being the darkest colour and 10 being the lightest.

Landscape history photography

The history of Landscape photography is to typically capture the presence of nature but can also focus on human made features or disturbances of landscapes.

Methods and techniques used

The correct technique for making Landscape photography is to make sure that your lens is the sharpest at two f stops from your widest aperture setting.

The impact of Landscape photography

The impact of landscape photography is to capture the effects of human activity on the environment. These serve as a consequence of irresponsible actions such as deforestation, pollution and climate change.

What is Romanticism in Photography ?

A movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasising inspiration of the individual. It was an intellectual and artistic movement and it originated in Europe.

Characteristics of Romanticism ?

Some of the characteristics of Romanticism are emotion, supernatural, awe of nature and appreciation of the beauties and wonders of nature and the environment and it heavily focuses individualism.

What is the Sublime ?

The sublime was where artists and writers were concerned about the individualism of human kind and with their relationship to the natural world. Painters and poets would celebrate the majesty by their paintings and work overwhelming people with nature and the natural environment. The sublime is the feeling that you get when you are stunned by the vast landscape of the environment or nature.

When was the sublime ?

The sublime emerged in the 17th century and acquired importance in the eighteenth century, Its development during this period was shown in James Beattie’s dissertations Moral and critical which explored the origin of the term.

Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke said that the sublime is the productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of. It excites the idea of pain and danger but also terror. According to Burke, the Beautiful is that which is well-formed and aesthetically pleasing, whereas the Sublime is that which has the power to compel and destroy us.

What does Landscape mean ?

All the visible features of the land, often considered in terms of how aesthetic they are.

When did Landscape emerge as a genre in western culture ?

Landscape as an independent genre did not emerge in the western culture until the renaissance in the 16th century.

When did classical landscapes emerge as a genre ?

In the 17th century the classical landscapes were born.

What prompted the rise of Landscape Art during the late 18th/19th century ?

With the rise of romanticism, and often carried a religious reference.

When did landscape photography originate ?

1826 and 1827

My Inspiration for this photo was from Cindy Sherman’s Film Still of her looking at herself in the mirror, my image is not identical to hers but it shows the stereotypical things that women do, like putting on makeup or making sure they look good in the mirror.

I got the inspiration to take this photo from Cindy Sherman’s film still in the mirror. The image in the mirror suggests that women look in the mirror most days and see what they are and not who they want to be or what they want to look like. It shows that women and girls should be ashamed of what they look like and how they feel about themselves but society and social media has made them feel like not enough or that they are not pretty enough.

Femininity

These are two of my strongest photos from Femininity because they show very feminine stereotypes and the image where the headphones are on shows what women have to hear about themselves and the negative things that people say about them.

Head Shots Virtual Gallery

These three Headshots I chose to put on the Virtual Gallery because they are connected together and are a series of photos to be displayed together. The colour on the background of these images outlines the head on the figure making the shadow stand out on the image.

I put these three Headshots together because they all link and have a connection. These Images all have Butterfly lighting under the cheeks which is why I put these images together as a Tryptic. These images also look really good together because the first image is quite small and on the last photo, the size of her head is a lot bigger and the photos go up in size.

I put these three Headshots together because of the angles of the head. The first image was angled to the left, the second image to the right and the third image was pointing straight to the left. I then changed the Opacity of these three photos so that you can see all three of the Headshots.

For this edit I took two of my pictures and resized them to fit the black background so that there was a gap in between the images and the outside of the photos. The space in between the images is small so that the connection between the images is still there. After I clicked on layer style and made a white border around the photos to make them stand out more on the black background. The first image is about putting on makeup and being a stereotypical women doing her makeup. The reason behind the second image is about how women hear things about themselves and are told they should act a certain way and look a certain way when actually they should be able to dress and be whoever they desire to be. The reason why I put these photos together was because they capture how women should be and how people see them.

For this edit, I used three of my Femininity photos and made a tryptic, having the two images on the outside that are tinted green makes the image in the middle of them tinted in pink stand out more. My idea for this tryptic was to print them out in A5 and mount them on foam board and then stick the images on a larger piece of foam board to create the tryptic. These images are about what you see when you look in the mirror and that people are perfect in there own ways. I like the image in the middle because there was no specific pose for the photo and it is very true and in the moment.

For this edit I put these two images together because it shows how when women and girls look in the mirror it shows that society makes them seem not perfect and that they desire to be someone else and look different. These images were about how you should feel comfortable as who you are and that nobody should have to change themselves because they feel they are not perfect.

These are my femininity photos and the inspiration was from Cindy Sherman. The lighting is quite bright in the images where I’m holding the mirror so that it makes my face stand out in the small mirror. The images where I’m in front of the mirror shows that vulnerable feminine position. It shows exposure and vulnerability.

The colour in these images shows the pink being for a girl and the blue being for a boy and then I chose green for the other colour because it suggests being neither a girl or a boy colour and gave me the inspiration from Claude Cahun who dressed up as neither a boy nor a girl.

The ideas for my photoshoot are to create three different photoshoots and one of them will be using the same model the second one will be using different lighting techniques or different locations and the third will be using different colours on the photos.

The first photoshoot

The first photoshoot I’m going to do is different outfits but using the same model for all of my photos in Shoot 1 but changing up the pose for the different photos.

The second photoshoot

The second photoshoot I will do is using different lighting techniques on the face of the model and make the images into black and white so that the lighting technique stands out more and is more visible.

The third photoshoot

The third photoshoot I’m going to take will have different colours in them and I will have a coloured light behind the model so that it creates the coloured silhouette of the model and frames them in the photo.

I also could get two coloured lights and put them on either side of where the model is standing so that there is a different colour on each side of the models face to get that multi coloured light effect on their face. The models face will be angled to different sides so that the models face will be framed at different points on their face by the different coloured lights.

What

A photoshoot inspired by Cindy Sherman’s photography but I’m going to do three separate Photoshoots on her style of photography.

Why

Because Cindy Sherman’s photography explores Femininity better than any of the other artist references and looks at all the stereotypes of women and what people thought of them.

How

I’m going to do the Photoshoot either at my house or in the studio to get the best lighting techniques. My other idea was to do the photoshoot at a friends house to get a different location for some of my photos.

Who

My photos will be of friends and some of my photos I will use myself as the model to get images that look more similar to Cindy Sherman’s as she used herself for her photos.

When

I’m going to do these three photoshoots this week and over the weekend and over the first few days of next week.

Where

I’m going to take these photos either at my house or at a friends house. Another possibility would be to go to locations that Cindy Sherman went to, to try and recreate some of her photos.